 | | Re: Bid retractions (was Re: eBay dead again) —Frank Filz
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| | | (...) Yep. It's also grounds for closing your account if you get caught. (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | Re: Bid retractions (was Re: eBay dead again) —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | (...) That's a pretty big if. Especially since someone proving it only means your eBay account getting yanked, as you haven't broken any prosecutable laws (that I can think of). Think of it this way: what if you got two friends to do the other deeds (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | | Re: Bid retractions (was Re: eBay dead again) —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | (...) Well, nowadays you need a credit card also, don't know exactly what they check, so I don't know if you can get more than one account without the friends credit card number. However, by doing this, you probably HAVE broken laws. I'm not sure (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Bid retractions (was Re: eBay dead again) —Christopher Lindsey
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| | | | | | (...) According to the registration page at Ebay, you don't need a credit card, just an address: (URL) just created a throw-away account ; it only uses my email address for confirmation. Aren't those free email services grand? Chris (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | Re: Bid retractions (was Re: eBay dead again) —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) So there are probably a lot of dishonest sellers out there doing this and not getting caught...? How does eBay "catch" someone? --Todd (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | Re: Bid retractions (was Re: eBay dead again) —Frank Filz
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| | | | (...) I doubt there's many people doing this. It's not impossible to catch someone. All bid retractions and cancelations are recorded in the bid history for the auction. A user's bid profile shows the number of bid retractions in the past 7 days, (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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