Auction Nr: 390143190077 (ended 21 Jan)
Bid History:http://offer.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=390143190077The bidder placed five bids in $5 increments, within one minute, until he was the then winner at $158, on an item that ultimately sold three days later for $466.
Bid History Details:http://offer.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidderProfile&mode=1&item=390143190077The latest stats (at about 7am):
Bidder: t***b (10773)
Feedback: 100% Positive
Item description: Ladies 1920's 9Kt Gold Rolex Wrist Watch Superb Dial NR
Bids on this item: 5
30-Day Summary:
Total bids: 4149
Items bid on: 2283
Bid activity (%) with this seller: 0%
Bid retractions: 2
Bid retractions (6 months): 17
4149 bids on 2283 items from at least 28 sellers (who knows just how many sellers, there’s only two sellers that appear more than once in the 30-Day Bid History, does that suggest 2000 odd?). That’s an average 138 bids per day on 76 items. And if you refer to the 30-Day Bid History, those bids are not one-off proxy bids/snipes as you might expect from someone (insane enough to be) trying to buy on eBay to resell on eBay; these are apparently manually placed nibble bids.
And you are going spend all the time required to look for all this very different stuff, manually bid on it, maybe win it, get it, and then relist it for sale on eBay or elsewhere in the hope of making a profit on it? Maybe this guy is building up stock to open a B&M second hand “hock” shop; but then if you are going to do that you have to bid to win not bid to lose. Now, he does have considerable feedback, but that does not mean much these days …
Of course now that bidders IDs are masked it’s almost impossible to check the bona fides of winning bidders and its absolutely impossible to check the bona fides of such underbidders. Gee, Bazza, is the system now working the way you and John intended—a total lack of transparency?
I’m not sure what’s going on. Own-auction-activity stats diluting, maybe?
Buying to resell? Give me a break. …
Maybe you should tell turkey John that all this lack of transparency and this Bid History Details facade only makes our distrust of eBay greater, if that is at all possible. Then, I suppose, John will be grabbing his golden parachute soon, so he really does not care what happens to eBay in the long run, and that is a shame.
In closing, if you don’t mind, Bazza, I would prefer it if we could simply ignore each other in future; I know what sort of unscrupulous organization eBay is, and I see no point in attempting to debate such eBay issues with what I think are representatives of eBay’s “department of spin”.