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Re: shills on eBay
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 11 Feb 1999 03:57:39 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, bwappo@ee.net (Adam Yulish) writes:
> > > me about lugnet auctions, where everything is controlled totally be the
> > > seller is - what's to stop a seller from just making up fictitious buyers
> > > s/he can quote to drive the price up higher? How can I, as a buyer, know
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> > I have a question about this. Is using a shill illegal, or just evil?
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> I think it depends on the auction format and location, but for the most
> part I believe it falls into the "just evil" category. For those of you
> that didn't know, if you run an eBay auction without a reserve price,
> you *are* allowed to bid on your own auction once. Now, I can't imagine
> any seller who would (in my not-so-humble opinion) be insane enough to
> insult his/her buyers by doing that kind of evil instead of using a
> reserve price auction, but then my opinions and sanity never really
> matched up very well. :)
I guess the question there (eBay) is -- if you bid on your own thing on
eBay, does it show up as a bid from you, the seller?
A seller bidding on his/her own item at eBay shouldn't be evil (still dumb,
maybe, but not evil) -- *if* it's clear to all participants the it is the
seller doing it and not some fictitious bidder. I guess it should just show
up as though the seller is saying, "Hey, I'm raising the price on this...I
think I set it too low."
--Todd
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| <snip> (...) Honestly, I don't know, but I can't imagine it would be any other way. (...) <laughing> To me, that's the seller equivalent of the same problem I have with griping about being outbid at the last minute. Unless some really unusual (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Yes it does. I was researching a seller's previous items sold and noticed once that the seller was also the high bidder on an item. I questioned the seller and his reply was that a friend without Internet access wanted the item so he placed (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | shills on eBay
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| (...) I think it depends on the auction format and location, but for the most part I believe it falls into the "just evil" category. For those of you that didn't know, if you run an eBay auction without a reserve price, you *are* allowed to bid on (...) (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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