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Sir Kenyth · 11-28-2001, 12:34 PM

I think the most common problem is people using an alias to run the bid up. My brother found one of these once. He accidentally bid $250 instead of $25. A typo. Even though there were other auctions of the same tape for under $50, his bid was magically run up to $249! He said one guy kept bidding against him. I'll bet once this mystery bidder won the high bid, the seller let him retract his last bid. My brother wouldn't know how to research this though. He just refused to pay and picked up negative feedback. I would have confronted the seller with the obvious alias or close freind and demanded a bid history to check on it. A common trick, and hard to catch as most don't run the bid up to the extreme like this. Another reason why ebay should keep verified names and addresses of members. This simple thing would cure a lot of problems by making it hard to maintain aliases. I don't think they'll do it though. It would increase overhead and reduce membership, not to mention opening them up to privacy act lawsuits. Ebay will not uncover their own nuts to protect yours! My neighbor has once again reconsidered buying the computer. It's just close to christmas and he's short of money. It's an AMD 450MHZ, 14GB HDD, 298 MB RAM, 8MB 3D video, 16 bit 4 speaker sound, 10/100 Ethernet, 56K modem, 8X/32X DVD/CD, 4XR 4XRW 16X CDRW, keyboard and mouse. He already bought the monitor. I was thinking of selling it to him for around $250-$300. What do you think it's worth?

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Originally posted by Cerek the Barbaric:
Sir Kenyth,

I'm sorry to hear about your eBay problems. I've bought a number of items (mostly VHS videos for my boys) and NEVER had any bad luck.

However, I did encounter a fraud seller on one of my first auctions. They were offering "The Ultimate Arcade CD". It had every game you could think of on it....the only problem is that this seller had pirated these games off legitimate copies and mass-produced them.

EBay got slammed by Sega, Nintendo, and every other big name game mfct for copyright infringement. Fortunately, I had not sent my money before this happened, so I lost nothing. I later heard from several other buyers who had been cheated by this same seller...turns out she had about 6 different eBay identities. When one she scammed under 1 ID, she would just switch to another one.

BTW, what type of system are you selling?

11-28-2001, 12:34 PM	#10
Sir Kenyth Fzoul Chembryl Join Date: August 30, 2001 Location: somewhere Age: 55 Posts: 1,785	I think the most common problem is people using an alias to run the bid up. My brother found one of these once. He accidentally bid $250 instead of $25. A typo. Even though there were other auctions of the same tape for under $50, his bid was magically run up to $249! He said one guy kept bidding against him. I'll bet once this mystery bidder won the high bid, the seller let him retract his last bid. My brother wouldn't know how to research this though. He just refused to pay and picked up negative feedback. I would have confronted the seller with the obvious alias or close freind and demanded a bid history to check on it. A common trick, and hard to catch as most don't run the bid up to the extreme like this. Another reason why ebay should keep verified names and addresses of members. This simple thing would cure a lot of problems by making it hard to maintain aliases. I don't think they'll do it though. It would increase overhead and reduce membership, not to mention opening them up to privacy act lawsuits. Ebay will not uncover their own nuts to protect yours! My neighbor has once again reconsidered buying the computer. It's just close to christmas and he's short of money. It's an AMD 450MHZ, 14GB HDD, 298 MB RAM, 8MB 3D video, 16 bit 4 speaker sound, 10/100 Ethernet, 56K modem, 8X/32X DVD/CD, 4XR 4XRW 16X CDRW, keyboard and mouse. He already bought the monitor. I was thinking of selling it to him for around $250-$300. What do you think it's worth? quote: Originally posted by Cerek the Barbaric: Sir Kenyth, I'm sorry to hear about your eBay problems. I've bought a number of items (mostly VHS videos for my boys) and NEVER had any bad luck. However, I did encounter a fraud seller on one of my first auctions. They were offering "The Ultimate Arcade CD". It had every game you could think of on it....the only problem is that this seller had pirated these games off legitimate copies and mass-produced them. EBay got slammed by Sega, Nintendo, and every other big name game mfct for copyright infringement. Fortunately, I had not sent my money before this happened, so I lost nothing. I later heard from several other buyers who had been cheated by this same seller...turns out she had about 6 different eBay identities. When one she scammed under 1 ID, she would just switch to another one. BTW, what type of system are you selling? __________________ Master Barbsman and wielder of the razor wit!<br /><br />There are dark angels among us. They present themselves in shining raiment but there is, in their hearts, the blackness of the abyss.