Suspicious ebay listings

[Molly]

If you check the current Pin Trading Nights Paris pins,(ending very soon) there are several being sold by one seller. Nearly all of their pins are coincidentally being bid on by a bidder with 90% activity with the seller, they have an 1184 feedback rating. They have bid on 72 items in the last 30 days so at 90% activity that means that they have bid on about 65 out of 72 items with this one seller.....ummm very suspect. They also have two bid retractions and that's never good to see.

As always I suggest that if you are bidding on their items and are offered a second chance offer because they out shill your bids, make sure they remove ALL of the bids that the high bidder placed in order to boost the price. It's highly unlikely that the seller has duplicates of this many pins and accepting a second chance offer is basically condoning fake bids to run up the prices and then offer it to the first real bidder beneath their shilled bids.

Shammmmmme

 

[ALittleBitOfMagic]

Thanks for pointing this out! I know precisely who you're talking about... Hope this doesn't happen as I really want a couple :/

 

[Molly]

The bidder with the 1184 feedback now has 91% activity with the seller and about 177 bids! They have won several now, be on the lookout for second chance offers or the pins they bid on being relisted.

 

[Belle]

So they are bidding on there own items or they have a friend who is bidding to boost the price tut tut.. Doesn't eBay issue bans or something for this kind of thing? I would look into reporting that

 

[Molly]

I recommend reporting any auctions that look suspicious. If they aren't doing anything wrong it won't hurt them and if they are guilty they will be warned, suspended and then banned. If it is excessive they can be banned immediately but without several alerts they slip by. There was an entire dept created about a year ago to deal with shilling exclusively but they are still not able to deal with the volume of reports and or internal flags very quickly.

Better safe than sorry, greedy people will try anything to make more money.

 

[Molly]

They also have another suspicious bidder with 1134 feedback, have 100% activity with the seller, have bid on 145 items and have made 146 bids with this one seller in the last 30 days.

I'm sure there are more.....

 

[pinbum]

I thought we were not suppose to talk about Ebay on here.

 

[coblj003]

We can discuss the bay in context, just not exact links to auctions or naming any sellers by name.

 

[markheardjr]

You can't give sellers names, but you can call out suspicious practices to help protect people who may be unaware. Report them. eBay will delete accounts and sometimes that extends to paypal accounts too. But all it takes is a new email account.

 

[echan50]

Very interesting. From the descriptions mentioned in the opening post, I think I have lost to that "buyer" a few times at the last second.

One time, I lost two Mary Poppins marquee sold by the same seller to the same buyer and we were the only two who bid on the pins. I asked my self, "why does the same person need two marquees of the same movie?" but now I think I may understand why.

 

[unibear]

If this is who I think it is, I bid and won one pin from them and was outbid on the other one. Haven't got a second chance offer yet.

By the way, is this the same seller that sold the Japan Alice Drink Me pin? If so, they are now about $500 richer from that pin alone. I was shocked!! The Cheshire pin from that set also went for about $250. Yikes!!

 

[Molly]

@unibear, that's the one.

There are a couple other auctions, two lots of pins disney pin lot, Minnie Mickey tinker bell and they have the same situation and a high bidder with 20​ bid retractions in the last 6 months!

 

[Molly]

Same seller as first post, auctioning a Sakura Cherry Blossom Japan pin....bidder with 80 feedback rating, 100% activity with this seller and has bid 145 times on 98 items in 30 days! As predicted, if you keep digging there are several extremely shady things going on with this seller.

 

[Tinkerboy]

Interesting. This happened to me once with a pin. I found it very suspect. There was absolutely no bids on it for the whole listing time, then I bid like 10 mins before the bid closes, and wind up in a bidding war that I then lost.

Immediately after the end of the auction, I get a message from the seller saying he has another one of the same pin and says I can do Buy It Now for the same amount that was my max bid on the previous pin. I knew I was being played so said "No thank you" and moved on. Sorry I can see right through you.

Some people.