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Spot shill bidders a mile off
Enter eBay item number

This little on-line tool assists in spotting shill bidding in eBay auctions and whilst it can not replace your own detective work it does speed up the process and provide warnings and advise so simple type the eBay item number into the box and press search to see instant results in about twenty seconds.


eBays preposterous claim that they decided to remove members names from the bidding page is a lame excuse for taking no actions against members biding items up as this unethical practice also keeps eBay profits up to a certain extend and certainly stopped many public spirited web sites pointing out the obvious fraud and if you happen to live in the UK then the situation is even worse as the names of bidders only appear as Bidder1, Bidder2 whereas the rest of the world gains a bit more protection after wide spread protests that forced eBay to alias names in the form of A***B, C***D but I must warn that these names are changed about every three months or so without any explanation from eBay.

Protecting scammers at your cost by hiding information is an insult to your intelligence and you should voice your concerns to eBay and take the appropriate actions if you are not satisfied with the automated response your receive to your complaint.
EBay helping the shill bidders

Please note that we have to limit the amount of use this page gets because eBay, in it’s effort to obstruct bidding investigations restrict the amount of pages it allows a single user to view from the bid history pages and puts paid to the claim that Ebay is doing all it possible can to stamp out this practice and you can find plenty of well documented cases around the internet to support this claim.



Comment (1) Posted on 9/4/2009 by pete motors
thanks for the help i will keep a link to this page

see bid 2 on item 150368290621. what do you think and why bid £1999 iff they want the car.


Comment (2) Posted on 9/4/2009 by Phil Cohen
 

Surely Bidder 1 has to be the shill, if there is one. Iv'e never see such stats: he has to be a used car dealer!


Comment (3) Posted on 9/14/2009 by Bob
Are all cars fraudulently sold

I am following this page very carefully as I am looking for a new car, every car I have looked at appears to be shrill bidded up, this is not acceptable and Ebay should not allow this to happen, us genuine people want to pay a fair price and not have your freinds bid it up to give you more profit. Word of advice to all car buyers out there, stick to you max figure dont increase because sellers freinds are trying to push you further.

Ebay I understand you want to make money but this is not an acceptable way to do it, perhaps you should review your policies.

Bob from Birmingham


Comment (4) Posted on 9/24/2009 by jammer
 

real cool keep it up!

you just saved me making a big mistake and i have posted the sellers name on the site so others can see what he is doing


Comment (5) Posted on 9/30/2009 by automan
 

whay are you doing the job ebay is being paid to do


Comment (6) Posted on 10/11/2009 by eBuster
reply :why are you doing the job ebay is being paid to do

Because ebay will not do it themselves and are doing all they can to try and hide this from members.

also watchout for second chance offers as half the time they come after a shill bidders has pushed it too far only to find they are left to hold the baby which makes ebay double the profit the next time the item has to be listed to sell to a real buyer

look at our profile page to see if the seller has tried to sell the item before and then, if you can, look at the old listing to see if the buyer pulled out if you are not sure.


Comment (7) Posted on 11/5/2009 by dez
 

when i last looked it was safer and quicker to use auto trader and then at least you get a telephone number plus the person selling the car is not having to jack the price up to pay ebay fees

only junk left in ebay so take away the friends bids and the place would be empty




Comment (8) Posted on 11/6/2009 by Shirley
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Less than a week on ebay and all these bids


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