Today i had a look on eBay motors and it’s empty to what it was a year ago and looking at the bid history that shows most bidders are new or only have yellow stars it’s easy to see they are bidding against themselves most the time.

Here in the UK we don’t get the 1***B alias names you get in the rest off the world so is it any wonder that shill bidding is rampant.

Good luck with the move Tom.

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Hi David,
Please remove the negative feedback and we will proceed and refund your paypal .
go to http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/feedback-removal.html
i will wait for your reply thanks.

From: Winston Smith
To: irdrive.com
Sent: Wed, December 23, 2009 6:00:17 PM
Subject: Re: RMA# 1903
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I HAVE OPENED A CASE WITH EBAY, AND SO FAR HAVE GOT NO HELP FROM THEM. I SHOULD GET MY REFUND REGARDLESS OF FEEDBACK LEFT—-EBAY SEEMS TO FAVOR SELLERS AND TO HELL WITH BUYERS! THIS IS NOT RIGHT! MAYBE EBAY SHOULD POST A SIGN : “BUY AT YOUR OWN RISK…AS YOU WILL GET NO HELP FROM US!” SIGNED EBAY!

ANYWAY, AFTER I GET THE THE OPERATING SYSTEM FOR MY NEW PC (REPLACE THE DEAD ONE) FROM ANOTHER SELLER ON EBAY—-I PLAN TO CLOSE MY ACCOUNT FOR GOOD!! AND POST THIS EXPERIENCE ON EVERY SITE I FIND!! —-DAVE.

Without a true two way system, like has been in place and works, ie, a true Feedback System ..fed-back, then eBay will continue to lose good quality sellers, and especially will lose those Handmade in America goods, because we have to make our living in a real world NOT this Fairytale Land of Make Believe!

They never sent the item, when I complained, they said “we’ll send you a replacement” which never arrived.

You’ve been warned.

If anyone reads this and has any doubt on how it works, they can contact me on this address saravanakodi@yahoo.com . I would be happy to resolve your concern. As for the false auctions and multiple accounts. Out of millions of items on eBay and members you will see one or two frauds which have not been spotted by eBay, but believe me such people don’t get away that easily. If you have any questions for me you are always welcome.

Kodi.

No matter what seller’s still complain, you know why? Because they don’t know how to sell or how to behave which is the right word. Let me give you an example. Suppose you have a physical shop you sell items to your buyers and if they don’t like it you refund the amount and get the item back. Some do lie to get their money back if they don’t like the item or if they feel that they don’t need the item. Now why shouldn’t sellers treat buyers the same way on eBay. Remember customer is the king. If you can’t please your buyers GET OUT!!. You don’t deserve to sell if you can’t do what your buyers say as you do in a physical shop.

Why do you think there are so many PowerSellers on eBay who depend on eBay and who still love eBay, because they know how it works. Remember you will always get complaints from sellers who have feedback of less than 80 or 70.

eBay is the most fun place and the most profitable site on the web. Sellers say eBay raised it’s fees. Why shouldn’t it raise it’s fees if there has been inflation all over the world. You expect them to charge you the same way they did 10 years back. If a person says eBay is a rip off, I will say you don’t know what you are TALKING about!.

Do it the right way and you will profit. eBay has live help, email support to help sellers. Reach them whenever you have doubts.

Kodi.

I got scammed buying a car on eBay and the seller had 8 other eBay accounts and eBay pretend they don’t know how to stop this by tracking IP addresees or checking bank details so i’ve openned a site at http://www.eBuster.co.uk that has access to eBay pages long after eBay have pulled the pages in an effort to hide the amount on fraud on eBay.

The tide is turning against eBay as can be seen from it’s own figures and for my money they must police themselves or they will be taken over by others and talking of take over i can see Paypal being sold off but i would not touch it with a parge pole because i can not see many of the millions of accounts being used very often.

For ebay this point is no longer valid, but I left it in anyway, it may help with other similar auction systems.

As for your second point, there are many things one can do with a fraudulent account. He may sell it further as an old established account with positive feedback. An account will gain value the older the account and the higher the feedback is.

If a scammer keeps the account it’s not necessary that he sells with paypal. Many sellers have a good reason not to offer paypal. In our case however, it is fraud. So in this case, the scammer would try to push as many auctions as he can before all the negative feedback accumulates and lowers his feedback score. When this happens he simply moves on to another account.

(1) I don’t think the “overbid, then cancel your bid” strategy can work. If the scammer bids $400 from one account, then $1600 from another account, the bid shown will only be about $410 (that is, $400 plus whatever the bid increment is at that level – which I think is about $5 or $10). eBay does not reveal the maximum bid the highest bidder puts in – it just increments the existing bid by the minimum amount. The active bid will never reach $1600 unless someone else also bids that high. Other bidders can try to beat the $410 offer by bidding $425 or $450 – their bids will then show up in second place, and the scammer’s active bid will jump to $435 or $460 (or whatever), but again they won’t be aware of the $1600 maximum. So this actually works out to a fair auction: if the scammer really wants the item, they can have it, but only by paying an amount greater than anyone else bid, just as if they were bidding sincerely; if the scammer pulls the high bid, then the second-place bidder gets the item, which sells at the highest price that a sincere bidder was willing to pay, just as it is supposed to. I really don’t see how anyone can get cheated this way.

(2) How does the scammer get a payoff by hijacking someone else’s login and listing nonexistent goods? Wouldn’t you need to be able to get both the victim’s eBay login AND their PayPal login to access the money from the bids? If you only had the eBay login, you could list fraudulent items, but the victim would get the money and the legal repercussions from the phony sales. What’s the point of creating fraudulent listings on someone else’s account?