[Rats2017]

A question for you all...

I'm in a rare (for me) spirited bidding war for a rough but interesting watch on ebay

The battle is with a zero feedback member who's bid 7 times (out of 21) and is pushing up my max bid

The sceptic in me smells a rat. Is there any way of verifying this bidder's validity??

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[ToomanywatchesKLM]

Ahhh, the joy of EBAY. I don't think you can do anything about shill bidding. All you really can do is just put in the max you are willing to pay and hope for the best. I've had this happen where they just keep bidding it up until they see what your max bid is, and then retract their bids. Hopefully that is what might happen, because then your bid will drop back down.

 

[dapellegrini]

I've had the same happen to me, but I thought perhaps it was drunk bidding... and regret the next day (cancelled all their bids). If there is enough time left, I would let the other party out bid you... and sit on it like they hit your max and now they are stuck with it. Maybe they will get cold feet and drop out.

If they don't - try and throw your true max at it with just 3-6 seconds left.

 

[brashears9567]

Find your top dollar and stick to it. That definitely sounds like a shill bidder. Don't delete the item in your "didn't win" list and see if it is relisted, if you don't win it. Then you'll know. I'd say shill and I'd retract my bids on those grounds.


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[Grammarofdesign]

Fits the shill bill.

Just pop in your top bid and wait to get the email to pay - or not.

 

[bloody watches]

Send a complaint to ebay about the bidder shrill bidding they will pull his bids, but he may pull the listing

 

[Grammarofdesign]

 

[Rats2017]

this confirms that the same bidder has bid on 4 listings (17 bids in total now) - all in the last 4 days, and ALL with the same seller

 

[Time Seller]

I wouldn't want to buy from a dishonest seller like that. Who knows what other surprises could be in store? Maybe you should retract your bids.

 

[Rats2017]

I wouldn't want to buy from a dishonest seller like that. Who knows what other surprises could be in store? Maybe you should retract your bids.

tricky one - maybe this seller is being targeted, for whatever reason
He has 4000+ positive ratings (100%), over 6000 sales and nearly 3000 followers. Been a seller for 10 years
Let's see how it unfolds

 

[vincentg]

Good luck! I would X2 letting him keep the lead till that last few seconds then sniping in

 

[Time Seller]

Unfortunately, positive ratings and such don't really mean much and don't help your situation. Whoever is shill bidding is artificially raising the price you would have to pay higher than it would be if the auction were honest.

 

[Grammarofdesign]

tricky one - maybe this seller is being targeted, for whatever reason
He has 4000+ positive ratings (100%), over 6000 sales and nearly 3000 followers. Been a seller for 10 years
Let's see how it unfolds

No way is he being targeted. Give this bum zero benefit of any doubts. He is a shiller.

 

[TheTigerUK]

I would give it a miss, there is always something else around the corner (hopefully ).

 

[Reebmit]

Ahhh, the joy of EBAY. I don't think you can do anything about shill bidding. All you really can do is just put in the max you are willing to pay and hope for the best. I've had this happen where they just keep bidding it up until they see what your max bid is, and then retract their bids. Hopefully that is what might happen, because then your bid will drop back down.

This is why I never bid until the very last few seconds…..

 

[Thesharkman]

A question for you all...

I'm in a rare (for me) spirited bidding war for a rough but interesting watch on ebay

The battle is with a zero feedback member who's bid 7 times (out of 21) and is pushing up my max bid

The sceptic in me smells a rat. Is there any way of verifying this bidder's validity??

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why are you even throwing in more than one bid until the final 5 seconds of an auction, as Reebmit has stated. YOU are only inviting shill bids. in fact, you should never bid until the last seconds of an auction to prevent a "bidding war" from happening. that's the prudent course of action 100% of the time when bidding anywhere that doesn't have that dumb "snipe" rule.

<* shark >>><

 

[Katgirl]

I bid fairly frequently, on eBay. I almost always decide what my max is, and stick to it. Right now, I am bidding on a Moon Swatch, and may win it, because Seller is very new, so not many bidders. I am winning with 3 hours to go, and have 80.00 more dollars of wiggle room. I won the same model yesterday, but that seller ( also new) claimed he misplaced the watch, so cancelled the sale. I have had numerous shady things happen lately, on the bay, but I also won that beautiful Yachtsman. There is always the potential for drama, on the Bay….

Kat


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[CarrollGardener]

Use eSnipe or something similar to automatically bid your max in the final seconds. Set it and forget it. It's really the only way unless you're going Buy It Now.

 

[Grammarofdesign]

@katg

Use eSnipe or something similar to automatically bid your max in the final seconds. Set it and forget it. It's really the only way unless you're going Buy It Now.

I use Gixen and find it quite good. Others have reported that their snipe bids were not placed in time on occasions FWIW.

Myself I have only had successful bid placements with Gixen. Obviously if the current price exceeded my bid it was not placed but a message to that extent was delivered, indicating the Gixen process was working as it should.

 

[Reebmit]

Interesting different views, quite simply I will never give my log on details to a third party which I believe you have to do for snipe etc….. I have a few thousand feedbacks over the years and just do the traditional last few second bidding at the maximum I want to pay, I have almost never not won and when I have lost it was only because I wasn’t prepared to pay more. It really is a very simple process. In the early years when I was learning any time I put in a maximum bid early on and left it I was nearly always out bid…