[sdiy] ebay internal shill bidding?

[Bob Weigel]

On 1/4/2011 4:34 PM, Ben Lincoln wrote:
> It's been a year or so since I did much buying on eBay, but for awhile I
> was manually sniping things on a fairly regular basis. I never saw
> anything that made me think eBay was inflating my bids, although I did in
> the past see a number of occurrences that made me think various sellers
> were (which is one of the main reasons I started sniping in the first
> place).
>    
Yeah it's been in the past couple years this started happening a lot.  
The only thing that makes me think it's this is the frequency of 1 
counter snipes..AND the fact that like I say a guy I guess is coming out 
about it.  If it turns out he's legit and can prove it.....ebay is in a 
lot of trouble.

See they'd only have to do it like 10% of the time to drive up their 
profit up 50% on *those* kinds of items without anyone knowing the 
difference.  Given that these people in my experience have no particular 
moral code to keep them from doing such things... like I say I'd be 
surprised if they aren't doing it.  It's just the nature of the beast 
these days.  Everyone has figured out that software is an amazing tool 
of corruption.

Of course now they're reaming everyone 9% with 50.00 cap anyway. LOL.  
Maybe they're anticipating it's time to milk it for all it's worth?

Like I say stranger things have happened.  But it takes so *few* to be 
involved in a conspiracy of this nature...it could even be a solo effort 
if the owner has installed backdoors into his own system etc.  Who 
knows.   -Bob

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