Reporting shill bidding on Ebay

musicman282

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I was bidding on a secret service machine by Data East that is local to me and I noticed that the seller is probably shill bidding. He's not very good at it. Both machines he's selling has the same brand new account as the high bidder and the only bids are on his two machines. How do I go about reporting this? I'm not even going to bother bidding on the machine now due to this.

Isn't this considered straight up fraud? I bet Ebay could track this by looking at the IP addresses.

Here are the two auctions:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Secret-Serv...aultDomain_0&hash=item19d4ac5750#ht_500wt_977

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lost-World-...aultDomain_0&hash=item19d4ac779f#ht_500wt_977
 
That does look a little shady. Also has a bid retraction in his history. Not a very good job of covering your tracks.
 
musicman282. let it go.if you dont like it, simply dont buy from that seller. this is the kind of stuff everybody and their moma emailing them and calling them made them change their policy. that so many dont like now.
 
just let the auction end, when the shill account wins you should get a 2nd chance offer. if not then oh well your better off anyways.
 
musicman282. let it go.if you dont like it, simply dont buy from that seller. this is the kind of stuff everybody and their moma emailing them and calling them made them change their policy. that so many dont like now.

What policy don't people like? I would think that shill bidding would piss everyone off.
 
don't bother ebay won't do anything
that's why i do best offer everyone knows what they want for something
theres local to me that seems to do it all the time . how many times can you sell the same pinball machine.
 

are you talking about the Museum Of Modern Art in NYC



i just figure most people do shill bidding

i love to try and "catch" them by stop bidding at a "low/fair" price
then they are "stuck" with the high bid on thier own auction

have no way of knowing any of this but i love to speculate

every once and awhile i get a 2nd chance offer and i get a kick for 20/30 seconds or so

heard a few years ago ebay was banning people for doing this but i dont know how they were figuring it out or even if it was true or even if they are still doing it\

looked at the bids, could be the bidder 1***5 (5) is a shill bidder or could be they really want the pin and lost
probably a shill bidder but i can't say for sure

best is to just fix a price in your head and go with that. hopefully you win
 
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It is slimy and pathetic and you have no recourse. ebay will tell you to leave them negative feedback which they can turn around and slam you right back. ebay will do nothing.

And it is not people complaining about dishonest actions that plainly violate the users agreement that screw up ebay. It's the dishonest idiots who screw it up and cause new rules. Only in america is the victim blamed so frequently.
 
You know you could be wrong and just 2 new bidders are bidding. eBay new rule are hard on a seller for sure and try to follow their Top Rated rules that is very hard but eBay is all that is there so it is what it is. New bidders is why I do only buy it now's
 
RLEVIN is right, you really don't know that they are shills. eBay will catch people shilling on the same IP address, but I doubt they try very hard to catch them. Also, it's not uncommon to bid on multiple items from the same seller. I do it all the time to save on shipping so it's not a stretch to think someone would do the same on something they had to pick up. I've even bid over market price on items if the combined shipping saved me money on both items.
 
Off the record I would imagine ebay encourages this type of bidding. It drives up their cut.
 
Off the record I would imagine ebay encourages this type of bidding. It drives up their cut.

I think eBay has got so big and has way too much red tape and the left has no ideal what the right is doing. The shit they come up with just sometimes make no sense. And by the way do you have any art deals going Mr. Tron guy?
 
I wouldn't be too concerned about shill bidding at an auction. In the end, something is worth what a seller is willing to take and a buyer is willing to give. If you bid what you think it is worth to you and a seller bids it up but you still win the auction then you still got what you wanted for a price that's acceptable to you.

On the other hand, it is an ethically dog excrement practice unless the seller makes it known that they are doing it. I wouldn't buy anything at a second chance offering. I would just wait for it to be relisted.

I do wish that ebay would let you block sellers the way that they let you block buyers. That way I wouldn't waste time looking at their auctions before realizing that it was a buyer that I am not going to deal with.
 
I wish eBay would seperate the video game section and get rid of the dumb shit. Sucks have 51000 items and 5000 games 46000 of everything else. Boards are good but flyers and key chains and shit that really needs to be somewhere else in that section. I remember the days when Xmas there would be only 5000 items. You used to be able to sit down and go thru all the listings in a hour
 
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