"£180 anyone!" Topic

auction

The seller has a 100% success rate on lots sold. He or she is doing something right.

Hmmm….no thanks. But if they can find someone to buy it for £180.00 GBP then good luck to them.

Given that so many figures have been bought by a couple individuals, I wonder if this is a shill operation.

Year ago, like, 18 or so, I shut one down on eBay. I caught onto a buyer who would frequently buy indvidual or lots of scrachbuilt starships from me, then turn around and resell them. He had three shills. On any given auction he would have two shill bidders (lets say A, B) that would get into bid wars and drive the price waaaaaay up – like 10x what I sold them for, hoping a sucker would outbid them. If a sucker did not win the auction, then the shill winner (lets say A) of that auction would turn around and list them for much less than he paid and the looser (B) and C would then get into a bidding war and drive the price way up. None of the shill bidders ever bid on my auctions. At one time you could follow the feedback trails and see that a starship would pass back and forth among these four identities 2-5 times until some poor slob won it and actually paid premium. I contacted one buyer and together we contacted eBay, and I sent them a long long step by step analysis of this, and a couple weeks later all four IDs were gone.

You would think that people who were buying this person's figures over and over would just take it offline to avoid fees and such.

VSB for the win, I suspect.

a couple weeks later all four IDs were gone.

And ten seconds after that, there were four new EBay customers buying and sellling to each other and posting good seller/buyer ratings… :)

Ebay: caveat emptor extrordinarius absolutim.

(latin-ish any way)

P.T. Barnum would be so proud.

And ten seconds after that, there were four new EBay customers buying and sellling to each other and posting good seller/buyer ratings… :)

No kidding. Except in my case I am pretty sure it was all one person. All were in the same city.