dubious activity - how do i report...

[andysgray68]

Hi,

I was interested (ok curious) in (part of) a lot

It had had no interest and I wondered if it would be sniped - Well it got 1 bid in the last hour of the auction and sold for £100, funny thing is that I repeated a search for similar items and BAM, brand new listing from the same seller, less than a minute after the original ended, asking £399 - is this shill bidding, has the account been hacked, or is this some other scam I'm not familiar with?

I reported the second item as fraudulant but couldn't see way to link to first item..

[tobiasd4]

This is a guess, but seller didn't get price he wanted.

Pay for item & see what seller does, if they send cancellation request, refuse it.

If item does not arrive, 1 day after estimated delivery date open item not received case, escalate on day 9.

Of course, you may still receive item.

[andysgray68]

No, I wasn't bidding - there was only 1 bidder - 1 bid - but I think it was done in such a way to scam/shill snipers autobids - The seller had the new listing ready to go and made it live within seconds of the first ending - how could they do that unless they knew the bid was theirs?

[tobiasd4]

Very difficult to prove shill bidding,
can't see advantage of seller doing this if the only bid, they could just relist at any price.

[andysgray68]

I think they were hoping somebody had set up a snipe, so if their friends (their alternate) account had a e.g. £199 autobid the sniper would get it for £200 or if less than their fake autobid, they could send a second chance offer to the genuine (and only real bidder) for whatever their maximum snipe bid was...

[pixiesen2012]

you're over thinking this,


they didn't have a listing set up waiting to list, they just hit the sell similar button 4 hours after the first listing sold!