Ebay Con Atrist. I Win!

[highlandsflyer]

So yesterday I did around four hundred miles looking at cars. Bought two and guaranteed I would bid on one on Ebay, seller telling me someone else was interested and had tested it and was going to do likewise.

I get an email ten minuted before the auction end, and my mobile rings.

Seller wanting to know if I am definitely going to bid. I tell him I am planning to.

Last minute comes and there is a bid placed. I look at the bidder's history and it is all Trucks/Lorries bar a couple of bids, then suddenly a bid on a car...

I decide not to bother, the starting price was really near my limit, and I am a little sceptical to say the least as the seller mainly buys/sells Trucks/Lorries...

Ten minutes after the auction ends I get a text asking if I am still interested in the car, as the 'guy who bid did it by mistake'.

My reply, "Certainly would be interested in the car, if someone else was selling it."

Take that Ebay, and all the con artists out there who take the pee.

Smug.

 

[poweredbypies]

Good on you, teach the shill bidding little to55er.

 

[NAILTRAIL96]

Sounds like a result!.
I won an auction last week only to find the actual winning bid was placed and retracted within 3 minutes of the auction ending.
How can it be done so quickly without prior knowledge?.

 

[FST4RD]

On trademe (NZ version of ebay) I was bidding on some golf balls, pack of 12 new titelist. $1 reserve, I put an autobid of $40 and left it. I then seen I won the auction, quite happy as it was very cheap. I then see that I had an email that my autobid had been surpassed, then another email saying I was winning the auction??? I then check out the bidder and the sellers auctions. They were bidding on each others auctions, obviously boosting prices!
I emailed the seller and said I will pay you the initial $1 for the golf balls as no-one else bid on the action and the $5 for shipping or I was going to contact the police and trademe.
So got a new pack of Titelist V1's for $6!
I emailed trademe anyway and both users got banned!

 

[poweredbypies]

On trademe (NZ version of ebay) I was bidding on some golf balls, pack of 12 new titelist. $1 reserve, I put an autobid of $40 and left it. I then seen I won the auction, quite happy as it was very cheap. I then see that I had an email that my autobid had been surpassed, then another email saying I was winning the auction??? I then check out the bidder and the sellers auctions. They were bidding on each others auctions, obviously boosting prices!
I emailed the seller and said I will pay you the initial $1 for the golf balls as no-one else bid on the action and the $5 for shipping or I was going to contact the police and trademe.
So got a new pack of Titelist V1's for $6!
I emailed trademe anyway and both users got banned!

Remind me never to cross you

 

[twain]

.....I emailed trademe anyway and both users got banned!

 

[highlandsflyer]

Sounds like a result!.
I won an auction last week only to find the actual winning bid was placed and retracted within 3 minutes of the auction ending.
How can it be done so quickly without prior knowledge?.

Even if your automatic bid went up, once the other is retracted your bid amount should reduce back to what it was it prior to that new bid.

What happened with me is that the seller's 'shill' threw a bid on that would presumably have pushed mine up, (to what I had indicated as my best price when discussing things with the seller, based on a vehicle I was prepared to swap).

My seller assumed I would place my highest bid as discussed with him and there would then be no need to retract the shill as I would bid to beat it.

The laugh I may have last is to get a friend out there to go and knock him down for a cash deal. He is desperate to get rid as the MOT is up soon and there are issues that will cost a non trade buyer so his price will need to drop correspondingly. Lose lose scenario for him.

 

[FST4RD]

On trademe (NZ version of ebay) I was bidding on some golf balls, pack of 12 new titelist. $1 reserve, I put an autobid of $40 and left it. I then seen I won the auction, quite happy as it was very cheap. I then see that I had an email that my autobid had been surpassed, then another email saying I was winning the auction??? I then check out the bidder and the sellers auctions. They were bidding on each others auctions, obviously boosting prices!
I emailed the seller and said I will pay you the initial $1 for the golf balls as no-one else bid on the action and the $5 for shipping or I was going to contact the police and trademe.
So got a new pack of Titelist V1's for $6!
I emailed trademe anyway and both users got banned!

Remind me never to cross you

Well they were bidding on each other auctions! I would hate to think how many people they had ripped off :evil:

Sure there is a lot of this going on? Especially on Ebay since it's international...

 

[Easy_Rider]

Apologies but the only link I could find in a hurry to this story is from the daily fail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... rices.html

 

[highlandsflyer]

I am impressed that they have actually prosecuted someone. It is something that has always been going on on Ebay.

The worst development was Ebay withholding the identity of bidders.

This makes it much more difficult to spot dodgy goings on.