Ebay Shill Bidding Vender?

Tom

True, but what's interesting about 308 is that he bids in gradual increments that in my opinion are likely to be matched or beaten. For example 24.88, 25.00 or 99.99 instead of 25.05 or 101.11. Also once he saw that 30 was bidding $100 on several auctions 308 drove the price up to $100 on all of them, but never besting the other buyer. Now 308 might just be saying "fine, if you want to bid over me I'll make you pay your max". He's not bidding the other seller up to the max to snipe the auction at the last second. He bids other buyers to their max, but only has "won" 1 auction from this seller.

That auction was at a more reasonable price of 29.99. Also a bid 308 may have expected to be beaten.

Add the 94 retractions and it just seems suspect. Maybe that's just me, I would never place a bid thinking I could just retract it later.

Of course that's just conjecture. These bidders could just be general collectors who don't know the actual value. 308 does have 308 purchases, after all.

There are always going to be scams. They are all over the place. I hold in my disgust, which is probably not emotionally healthy. And someone doesn't have to shill bid to get someone to pay a high price for a stamp. I see it all over the place in BIN and BINBO listings also. In fact if someone is shill bidding, there is at least a risk they could get caught. By listing a stamp as BINBO sellers avoid that risk.

I just typed in a random cheap stamp and looked through the listings...

http://stampwants-stamps.bidstart.c...48197/a.html


-IBFS