Padding bids on eBay ... this seller takes the cake

[vlad4040]

Check just a few of this guys highend stuff and you'll see that he uses an eBay account that masks as 8***e to bid on all his stuff.

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=160395150368
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=400096688013
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=160395151083
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=160395154144

This 8***e has 100% of his bid history in the past month with this seller.

I also suspect they are using other eBay accounts. Possibly e***h + m***i (2% + 1% respectively with same seller).

[doniceage]

I don't see a problem with the padding so much as many times the 8 e is not even the high bid. Think it was only once at the top. You are correc though that it stranged that 8 e only bids on this seller items and nothing else. That I found very unprobable that it a legit account. Of course watching it more would lead you to get a better understanding of it.

Don

[RGM81]

It's generally pretty difficult to conclusively state that somebody is get somebody else to shill bid their auctions, and I'd be wary of casting that line out there when it's only one or two bids per auction that don't set off the red flags (i.e. a bid ending in .99) - those are some pretty nice cards and it's likely a case that the guy just wants to get some nice cards. There are ways to find out who the person actually is and where they reside. It's when you get to that step and find that they live in the same city that the case gets much stronger.

[andrewconnors9]

Gather all your proof, and provide it in a report to eBay, see what they do about it, and hopefully they'll shut down 1, if not both accounts

[vlad4040]

Gather all your proof, and provide it in a report to eBay, see what they do about it, and hopefully they'll shut down 1, if not both accounts

I didnt know u could do that. I've always been under the impression that they care more about sellers + increased bids then the actual buyers.

[RGM81]

Good luck on that front - I did such a report a few months back when there was an obvious case of shill bidding (same city, high bid percentage with one another, multiple bids ending in .99 to increase the max) and eBay did squat.

[andrewconnors9]

guess it depends if they can really prove it or not :\

[30ranfordfan]

Am I the only one that bids like this normally?

Say I bid on a card - and bid $5.00. Then I'm outbid..... and I'm thinking "I'll go as high as $15".

My next bids are going to be $5.99, $6.99, $7.99, etc...... until either I figure out what the current max bid is, or hit $14.99 and it still jumps to $15.49.

If I do figure out the max (let's say the other max was $10.00, so on my $9.99 bid the current bid only jumped to $10). Then in the last few seconds of the auction, I'll bid something like $15.28 just to cover my but in case someone else potentially also bids at the last second, with a similar max value.

Good luck on that front - I did such a report a few months back when there was an obvious case of shill bidding (same city, high bid percentage with one another, multiple bids ending in .99 to increase the max) and eBay did squat.