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[willyboy]

Wife pointed an ebay item out to me other week she had noticed this leather suite outfit (4 pcs) for sale 2yrs old  as new no reserve well it went for £420, so she just watched the guys feedback just to see if the buyer was happy  (but none appeared) then the suite was listed using same pics & everything by a seller who had bought it previously on ebay but with a reserve £720 said he had receipts for it etc but then it got relisted again later by original seller who said he had been messed about by the winner of it first time round..so the cheeky buyer was trying to sell it on at quick profit before he even paid for it and never did pay for it, so thats a new scam !!

[Mr Skrunts]

I want a old Fordson Diesel (Major ideally).

Ideal to take round the block at 7.00am on a Sunday morning  

I saw this in farmers field a while back, no idea what it is though.  Make an intersting challenge

[TheBoy]

Ebay is not my friend today.  2 of the items I've won recently turned up today, and both have problems...  ...ho hum

[Welung666]

Ebay is not my friend today.  2 of the items I've won recently turned up today, and both have problems...  ...ho hum

The last 2 things I got off eBay are sitting at the local sorting office   Carded this morning saying no one in, need signature, collect tomorrow! Typical!

[Vamps]

Ebay is not my friend today.  2 of the items I've won recently turned up today, and both have problems...  ...ho hum

The last 2 things I got off eBay are sitting at the local sorting office   Carded this morning saying no one in, need signature, collect tomorrow! Typical!

We are lucky with that one, our usual postman, George, justs signs on our behalf and leaves them in the Porch

[eddie]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7919492.stm

'nuff said.

eddie

[stuart30]

Well i don't mind saying i nearly always shill bid on items im selling....end of the day i want the maximum price achievable.

Do i feel guilty...no chance why should i,a bidder enters his maximum bid he if wins he wins if he don't then the item was more than he wanted too pay so whats the problem.

[TheBoy]

Well i don't mind saying i nearly always shill bid on items im selling....end of the day i want the maximum price achievable.

Do i feel guilty...no chance why should i,a bidder enters his maximum bid he if wins he wins if he don't then the item was more than he wanted too pay so whats the problem.

Then its not a rather auction. And, RIGHTLY, against Ebay's rules.  If you want a certain price, use the rather BIN option  

[eddie]

Well i don't mind saying i nearly always shill bid on items im selling....end of the day i want the maximum price achievable.

Do i feel guilty...no chance why should i,a bidder enters his maximum bid he if wins he wins if he don't then the item was more than he wanted too pay so whats the problem.

Naughty boy! An Auction is an Auction,you accept the max you can get,if you have a figure in mind then set a reserve.

Thats why I and no doubt many others stopped using Ebay--less customers/Bidders.

eddie

[Debs.]

Well i don't mind saying i nearly always shill bid on items im selling....end of the day i want the maximum price achievable.

Do i feel guilty...no chance why should i,a bidder enters his maximum bid he if wins he wins if he don't then the item was more than he wanted too pay so whats the problem.

Then its not a rather auction. And, RIGHTLY, against Ebay's rules.  If you want a certain price, use the rather BIN option  

  Exactly right!

Shill bidding is dishonest and shameful......[size=9](yet-another)[/size] product of the 'me-me-me' generation, where distance and anonymity means "anything goes"!

http://www.ukauctionhelp.co.uk/shill.php

[PaulW]

Well i don't mind saying i nearly always shill bid on items im selling....end of the day i want the maximum price achievable.

Do i feel guilty...no chance why should i,a bidder enters his maximum bid he if wins he wins if he don't then the item was more than he wanted too pay so whats the problem.

Then its not a rather auction. And, RIGHTLY, against Ebay's rules.  If you want a certain price, use the rather BIN option  

Either BIN or set a damned reserve!

[Jimbob]

There was a user on here shill bidded against me when I was after a cruise setup.

When the auction sold to him, he had the cheek to offer it to me at the auction price!

[Sad]

Well i don't mind saying i nearly always shill bid on items im selling....end of the day i want the maximum price achievable.

Do i feel guilty...no chance why should i,a bidder enters his maximum bid he if wins he wins if he don't then the item was more than he wanted too pay so whats the problem.

I'm glad you guys and gals came back with something more polite than I was thinking    

[Derek_in_Penzance]

Well i don't mind saying i nearly always shill bid on items im selling....end of the day i want the maximum price achievable.

Do i feel guilty...no chance why should i,a bidder enters his maximum bid he if wins he wins if he don't then the item was more than he wanted too pay so whats the problem.

I'm glad you guys and gals came back with something more polite than I was thinking    

Shill bidding is immoral and wrong. It's also against eBay rules -not that that bothers anybody. If you want a certain price put it up at Buy it Now or list it with a reserve. Otherwise stay away and let honest sellers and buyers do the deals.

[shyboy]

Well i don't mind saying i nearly always shill bid on items im selling....end of the day i want the maximum price achievable.

Do i feel guilty...no chance why should i,a bidder enters his maximum bid he if wins he wins if he don't then the item was more than he wanted too pay so whats the problem.

Then its not a rather auction. And, RIGHTLY, against Ebay's rules.  If you want a certain price, use the rather BIN option  

  Exactly right!

Shill bidding is dishonest and shameful......[size=9](yet-another)[/size] product of the 'me-me-me' generation, where distance and anonymity means "anything goes"!
http://www.ukauctionhelp.co.uk/shill.php

Hear! Hear!
But nothing will stop the chancers and wideboys, ( including the ones on this forum), from abusing the ebay system, or any other for that matter. The syndrome even pervades the financial institutions as we all know only too well.
All auctions can be a farce. Even some saleroom auctioneers openly admit to 'taking bids from the wall' on occasion, and 'shill' bidding in these places is virtually undetectable.