Ah Huh, Bazza has decided to do an audit on a single auction in my “beckertime” spreadsheet.
Bazza, have I anywhere said that there was anything wrong with this auction?
Your problem is that you do not read everything, or you don’t understand some of the words that you have read. Like your view of eBay, you apparently cannot see the forest for the trees. Try reading the “notes to the spreadsheet” and there you will find the qualifications for a seller’s inclusion in the spreadsheet.
Regardless, if you had any grasp of what I have said you would know that the basis of my comments depends on the analysis of multiple auctions for “patterns of bidding”. Patterns of bidding cannot be discerned from a single auction.
Could I suggest then that you sort the spreadsheet “Sellers x Auction” and then have a look at the other auctions by this seller and see if you can see any patterns of bidding emerging in that group of auctions. You can then sort “Bidders x Seller” to note how the regular bidders common to this seller only (suffixed “*”) never win an auction; you can then sort by “Sort Bidders” and wade though the bidders to see where those regular bidders that are also bidding elsewhere (suffixed “**”) are bidding; and then you may care to make a judgment as to whether these bidders are simply watch buyers with more than two arms, genuine collectors of Rolexes, shills of the seller or other own-auction-activity dilutors.
The spreadsheet is simply a list of facts; what you deduce from those facts is up to you.
Please Bazza, don’t nit pick through my criticisms of eBay; whether or not you are an employee of eBay, if you would like to obtain an appreciation of this (in my opinion) amoral, unethical, devious, totally unscrupulous organisation then I suggest you put aside an evening and read all my auctionbytes posts on same. But read them carefully, no skipping over bits.
As a matter of interest Bazza, see if you can spot what’s wrong with these two auctions:
http://offer.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=320462996710http://offer.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=330394338449Ultimately, if you can see no problems with the eBay auction system, in particular with eBay’s most devious masking of bidding IDs, and you believe eBay to be an honest broker between buyers and sellers, then I wonder why you are commenting here at all; I would have thought that you would be much more comfortable in the arms of the “pinks” on that other forum.
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