Shill Bidder On Ebay!!!!! Alert Big Time

[goodcardsforyou]

I was bidding on this card, http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEDW:IT&ih=013

i noticed the name under ebays new privacy rule, B***B as the screen name no biggy right, well i look over to the sellers name and see its wolverine24
his store name is BandB sports cardz,

i recently bought a card from a member named bigboydsportscard3 that also triggered a thought,

so i looked where all 3 members are from, drum roll please..........................












west chester, ohio population of 54,895 as of 2000

wow i guess we are all lucky to have 3 people in the same city bid and sell on each others items. NOw we know why wolverines cards get the premium $$$$ than you or I selling the same item.

report report report.

enough of us reporting will still not get anything done !!!

lmk your thoughts

[acecardking34]

you know i have noticed there stuff going higher than normal....

[OnePimpTiger]

I hadn't noticed the sale prices of their stuff, but they ticked me off just yesterday actually. I was looking at some higher end autos and patches and I noticed that one of their common practices is to word everything to make it sound like a 1/1. The first card was a logo patch I think #/5...well they said only logo patch, so it's a 1/1! The next one, which is common, was #12/25, which happened to be the guys jersey number....1/1! Then the last one was numbered 1/250...well it was the first one printed, so 1/1! I really can't stand when people do that...I know it doesn't mean a thing to most collectors, but it's extremely petty. If you look close enough, you can make anything a 1/1, that doesn't mean it is.

I would report them though...I know people who've been suspended from selling for a few weeks for shill bidding. When you're selling as much as that guy appears to be, it would probably hurt.

[bearfield]

Guess Who Ebay Makes More Money From----powersellers, They Usually Only Give The Shill A Slap On The Wrist, Not The Seller.

[jaderock]

I was bidding on this card, http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEDW:IT&ih=013

i noticed the name under ebays new privacy rule, B***B as the screen name no biggy right, well i look over to the sellers name and see its wolverine24
his store name is BandB sports cardz,

i recently bought a card from a member named bigboydsportscard3 that also triggered a thought,

so i looked where all 3 members are from, drum roll please..........................

west chester, ohio population of 54,895 as of 2000

wow i guess we are all lucky to have 3 people in the same city bid and sell on each others items. NOw we know why wolverines cards get the premium $$$$ than you or I selling the same item.

report report report.

enough of us reporting will still not get anything done !!!

lmk your thoughts

While I agree with you that shill bidding is wrong, I think you are mistaken in this assessment. These are two totally different people. I've bought from and sold to both parties before. Both are flippers so just because they live in the same area/city doesn't equal "shill" bidding. In addition, the "hidden screen" names represented by "b***b" are RANDOMLY generated letters/numbers (vs the "actual" bidder's intials/letters".

So in this case I think you are wrong.