[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I¹ve bid on quite a few Mercedes on Ebay recently and I always seem to be bidding against someone with zero feedback. It didn¹t bother me at first but it seems that it is now happening all the time. Have any of you out there noticed the same thing?
Sure. If the zero feedback bidder wins, however, I always save the auction (or make sure not to delete it from my "My eBay" files) and check back to see if the car shows up again. This could be a genuine non-payment, or of course a case of a car that was not fetching enough so the dealer made sure their shill came out as the high bidder. Obviously, I am talking about no reserve auctions mainly. Actually, eBay does respond to complaints about dealers who set up shills to bid on all their auctions. A few guys in the MD area have been yanked for that, but they weren't too smart about it. If you see the same user IDs bidding up all the seller's auctions, over a period of time, report it. But the clever guys won't get caught. Mac
