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Title: Bidders: legit or not—any of them?
Post by: Philip.Cohen on May 14, 2011, 06:43:37 AM

eBay item 200604466090
 
This is an item from an eBay Power Seller that I have long suspected of rampant shill bidding. Please, just for fun, within the next 90 days, would anyone like to have a look at the Bid History Details of each of the bidders on this item and offer an opinion as to whether any of the bidders on this item are legit, or otherwise?
 
I suspect that at least the first bidder on this item is probably some other seller watering down the "Bid activity (%) with this seller" value on one of his own shill IDs.

Of course, with all eBay’s additional bidder anonymity, introduced for no other purpose that to obscure such shill bidding fraud activity, it’s much more difficult to be sure.
 
What you need to know to help protect yourself on/from eBay:
http://forums.auctionbytes.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=23540

What you need to know to help protect yourself from PayPal:
http://forums.auctionbytes.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=165263

Enron / eBay / PayPal / Donahoe: Dead Men Walking.

Title: Re: Bidders: legit or not—any of them?
Post by: tellomon on May 28, 2011, 07:16:15 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6rtdnI2VJM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6rtdnI2VJM)