Peculiar Ebay listings

[frank_f15]

your right about ebay not caring about happy buyers or sellers, about 6 weeks ago i purchaced an item from a guy that had 100% positive feedback, paid immeadiatly with paypal, and never received the item. 4 e mails and 3 telephone calls to seller got no response. filed a fraud report with ebay and have not heard from them . looks like i am out the $36 + shipping . /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

 

[AndyM]

<font color="blue"> I'm a thief

or his brother who sells under the ebay name:

you get screwed </font>

His cousin "singin for joy", with a zero feedback rating, is currently running up the bidding on the Honda.
I will be watching to see if he gets stuck winning his own car and has to get it relisted! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[California]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( My experience with ebay is that they will put their head in the sand even if the fradulent activity is obvious. I reported an obvious case of shill bidding once and they said they could see no evidence even though one bidder bid on every single auction that the seller ever listed. )</font>

Yeah. Several years ago 50 bids would move an item into that 'featured' category at the top of the page.

I bid an auction and within an hour there were over 50 bids from two other bidders, both at the seller's ISP. One of them only bid this guy's auctions and had won a few. The first time he won they had exchanged positive feedback "quick payment" and "quick shipping" within 30 minutes of that auction's end! The other bidder had bid on most of his of his auctions also.

I notified ebay that this looked like a clear case of shill bidding. Of course I got a form letter back, 'no problem noted'.