Shill bidding? Need some help.

Sean1125 · #1 08-13-2013, 10:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thehoodedcoder

how is it that you bid 80 percent of your bids with this one person?

kevin

He may not bid that often. I sometimes only have one bid out and it shows 100% activity because I buy so little on e-bay. Correct me if I'm wrong but the seller has more cards that bigfish is likely interested in.

Edited for grammar.

SMPEP · #2 08-13-2013, 10:18 PM

... but I will say that in the one case where I goofed like that ... I didn't bid again because I knew the underbidders highest amount and that didn't seem fair to me ... so I thought the correct course of action was to pass on the item and not bid the guy up (his amount was going to still be higher than what mine would have been).

Meant less for the seller, but didn't seem right to make the buyer pay for my mistake.

Cheers,
Patrick

SMPEP · #3 08-13-2013, 10:20 PM

I missed a post above. ignore this one!

bundy462 · #4 08-13-2013, 11:44 PM

I started the thread because I wasn't sure and didn't want to point fingers. The extra 0 makes sense, but obviously would have exposed my highest bid (I was the highest bidder at the time). An immediate re-bid would have made me feel a whole lot better.

Then, when I saw the numbers (80% on one seller, 6 retractions in the past 6 months), I was skeptical. Anyone would be, I think.

I didn't expect to win the card, my bid was what I viewed as a bargain bid. Now, I'm just trying to learn something from everyone else here.

Thank you, bigfish, for speaking up. Obviously you could have remained quiet and nobody knows the difference. Thank you to everyone else who has or will share their opinions.

thehoodedcoder · #5 08-14-2013, 06:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sean1125

He may not bid that often. I sometimes only have one bid out and it shows 100% activity because I buy so little on e-bay. Correct me if I'm wrong but the seller has more cards that bigfish is likely interested in.

Edited for grammar.

All items marked on the page are bids within the last 30 days. So he bid 80 percent of his bids with one seller and had 6 retractions since mid july.

Kevin

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