But you can report the offer to sell to a non-winner. I think they only
give one warning and then exclude the seller.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 4:46 PM
Subject: RE: What you hate to see on ebay
> David wrote:
> >
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1222982417
> >
> > Check out the bid history. It looks like someone created an
> > account just to
> > drive the price of this up to ridiculous levels. That doesn't, of
course,
> > explain the ridiculously high winning bid.
> >
>
> That recently happened to me. I sat on the only bid of $14 on an item for
5
> days. I had a max of $20 on the auto bidder. At the last minute a bid of
> $20.01 from a zero rated user won the auction. The next day the seller
> contacted me saying the auction winner had no intention of buying the item
> so was offering it to me at $20 which of course was now visible in the bid
> history. Although I thought it a reasonable price I declined. I smelled
a
> rat. Although I didn't accuse him, I suspected the seller of having a
> second account and bidding on his own item in order to drive out my max.
> Without the "bad" bid he would never have seen my max bid.
>
> I dont see a way of either proving or stopping this. The bad bidder would
> of course never get negatives because he would never complain against
> himself.
>
> Peter
>
>
>
>
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