I don't know if this is the place to put this thread or if this has been noticed before, but I have been watching a few Louis Vuitton items from fashionphile and noticed that items with bids have bidders with 0 feedback constantly placing bids on items to push the price over the reserve. I don't know what this is called but I remember ebay saying they were going to crack down on this behavior.
4/5 of the items I was looking at have various users with 0 feedback bidding on these items multiple times even when no one else outbid them until the item price has reached the reserve price.
For instance this MC wallet, log into your account and click to see who bid on the item.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...61409&_sacat=See-All-Categories&_fvi=1&_rdc=1
Notice how "TE" has kept increasing the price even though no one else has outbid them?
Something fishy going on with this company.
I noticed this with alt radio too, sometimes I see items they sold multiple times being relisted after it was "sold".
As an ebay seller myself, I would never do this with my auctions, even if that means getting a lower price.
I guess this is how those ebay resale shops manage to get more money for pre used bags than if we sell them ourselves, but I don't like it.
If we ourselves did this with our own auctions, wouldn't this be like cheating our customers?
4/5 of the items I was looking at have various users with 0 feedback bidding on these items multiple times even when no one else outbid them until the item price has reached the reserve price.
For instance this MC wallet, log into your account and click to see who bid on the item.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...61409&_sacat=See-All-Categories&_fvi=1&_rdc=1
Notice how "TE" has kept increasing the price even though no one else has outbid them?
Something fishy going on with this company.
I noticed this with alt radio too, sometimes I see items they sold multiple times being relisted after it was "sold".
As an ebay seller myself, I would never do this with my auctions, even if that means getting a lower price.
I guess this is how those ebay resale shops manage to get more money for pre used bags than if we sell them ourselves, but I don't like it.
If we ourselves did this with our own auctions, wouldn't this be like cheating our customers?
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