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12-03-2008, 10:30 AM #1
Ebay's New Policy of Showing No One Who Bid
Ok, I bid on things most don't which we all know, so Ebay's new policy of showing me noone who bids or wins for that matter scares me that anyone can shill bid with another account or have a friend do it from their account. When it happened in the past, I could report it to Ebay. Now, I have no clue. So, I sent an email to a seller asking what it would cost to end an auction now on a card he just listed. His response was "Just put a max bid on". I did, and coincidently, let the bidding begin. Several small bids have been placed since. Maybe I am crazy, but I'd like to know. This is not fair. I've put up with all their other changes, but this one is deceiving. I had never used anything except Ebay in the past before a couple months ago when I had to buy a jersey on AMI. I was glad after that that, because no one is identified and a monkey could make an account with them. Anyway, Ebay switched about a year ago to scrambled names on all bids except the winners, but you could still click on everyone's feedback and see what they have bought in the past, to validate their interest in this player. Now, I can't even see feedback AND not even the winner is identified. I am frustrated!
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12-03-2008, 10:51 AM #2
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Re: Ebay's New Policy of Showing No One Who Bid
The new changes are ridiculous. They absolutely open a door to easy shill bidding.
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12-03-2008, 11:12 AM #3
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Re: Ebay's New Policy of Showing No One Who Bid
Can't you still see the percentage of bids each bidder has with the same seller? If so, at least you can see when a bidder has say, bid on 30 items in the last 30 days, with 25 of the bids from the same seller.
This will help determine shill bidding, I would assume. Then you could report it to eBay.
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12-03-2008, 12:09 PM #4
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Re: Ebay's New Policy of Showing No One Who Bid
I'm sure they did that because of all the phony second chance offers and fake invoices that were being sent out. Could be wrong, but that is my guess.
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12-03-2008, 12:17 PM #5
Re: Ebay's New Policy of Showing No One Who Bid
Whether you can see the bidders or not, never place your max bid until the very end.
Don't give the nibblers any time.Greg
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12-03-2008, 12:20 PM #6
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Re: Ebay's New Policy of Showing No One Who Bid
Check out this auction. I would guess there was a little shill bidding taking place.
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=300271118332
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12-03-2008, 12:50 PM #7
Re: Ebay's New Policy of Showing No One Who Bid
Yeah - just a little shill bidding there. If I was the winning bidder after the high bidder retracted, I would complain - not buy the item - and immediately snitch to eBay. As I am finding out, eBay ALMOST ALWAYS takes the side of the buyer nowadays.
That is just ridiculous.Dave
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12-03-2008, 02:39 PM #8
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Re: Ebay's New Policy of Showing No One Who Bid
I hate it as I like to make offers to people to won an item I would like down the road.
However, what I do if I want something badly is check the sellers' feed back a week or 2 later and then you can see who bid and contact them....
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12-03-2008, 03:13 PM #9
Re: Ebay's New Policy of Showing No One Who Bid
Jake, I never thought about that feedback idea. I appreciate it because there is a bat I am trying to track down, so there is still hope!
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