We have reported many shill bidders and they are still trading as
normal, sometimes the shill bidding ID disappears but is replaced by
another just as quickly. Just this week we've had 2 instances of shill
bidding shortly followed by a 2nd chance off...
Shill bidding is absolutely endemic. ebay actively encouraged it, when
they started hiding the ID's of bidders, as the higher sale prices
increase ebay's profit margin. Its totally pointless reporting it, as
ebay won't do a **bleep** thing about it. ...