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I'll look at it when I'm home... At the moment I'm eyebrow-deep in translating things Chinese.
Air Compressor Industrial Pilot V Twin Cyl 2HP ProfessiCheck the winning bidder's history and then notice it has been relisted the next day - for a start price significantly higher than the 'winning bid'.Then comes a question: If you want to report the suspected 'shill bidding', you are supposed to provide a valid user id ... which is rather impossible, since the bidder ID's have been masked.... or am I missing something?
Somebody made a point that this probably isn't shilling as such, but rather a means to set an artificial reserve.I can see that might be the case, but it still adds up to artificially inflating prices.Not comfortable. I feel there is a risk I do not need to take, so I am just going to avoid this seller completely.
The use of feedback tracking to identify the shill is only a guess. Mind, you with a correlating feedback score, that guess is pretty sound.... but if the seller cycles through a group of shill IDs - or this is a relatively new situation - you aren't going to be able to be as confident.
I understand what is being said - that on the grounds of probability, this IS the shill bidder.However - and this is my with IT hat firmly on top of my head - it is NOT guaranteed. It is entirely possible that another ID exists that fits the disguised ID and has the same feedback score.Admittedly the odds of such a situation are astronomical - but it IS POSSIBLE.I have survived for many decades in the IT industry because I do not take a high probability as a certainty.I'm not saying I disagree with the nominated ID - just that there is room for doubt (albeit only half an electron wide)
Quote from: *Brum6y* on March 03, 2011, 05:43:11 PMThe use of feedback tracking to identify the shill is only a guess. Mind, you with a correlating feedback score, that guess is pretty sound.... but if the seller cycles through a group of shill IDs - or this is a relatively new situation - you aren't going to be able to be as confident.Here is what our shill bidder Trojanleo03 had previously "bought" from your seller:http://cgi6.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidItems&userid=trojanleo03&completed=1&all=1&rows=50&sort=15&_rdc=1