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..

[plpmr]

you have no basis for calling out another member and suggesting criminal activity

[andysgray68]

The 'Basis' is that the item sold to a bid made in the last half hour of the listing. bidding ended without any further activity and magically a couple of minutes later it is back up for sale with the price increased by £300 - It is a job lot, a conglomeration and as such pretty unique so this is not a case of having 2 for sale - nor is there any reason why, if the buyer had somehow been in touch saying they intended to default that the price would increase fourfold - plus had the buyer and seller agreed to void, it would be a relisting to save the fees - just too suspicious - Anyway it has been reported to ebay and they can check it out.

It seems like you are suggesting that nobody should ever report anything suspicious on ebay - I would hope the contrary is the case for the safety of everyone!

[pixiesen2012]

it wasn't a couple of minutes later, it was 4 hours later!

[andysgray68]

No, they changed the postage 4 hours later, I came in about 3 mins from the end, saw it had a bid, literally watched the timer to zero to see what happened, and was just the 1 bid. OK, so That one has sold, lets see if there are any others, by the time I had typed in NEC and the model number, changed to UK only, set to used, set to gallery it was there on the second page at much higher price - I assumed was someone scamming with a stolen picture, so quite surprised that the original seller had relisted the item that had JUST sold - As I said 2 minutes tops!