Here's an interesting group of Lincoln Memorial auctions. Seller has 55 transactions. His past auction winners items are Private. What say you? Is this seller buying feedback? http://shop.ebay.com/tezgah/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340
I am at a loss as to what this guy is trying to achieve here. I'd keep an eye on this seller. He may be getting his sales numbers and feedback at 100% to sell some Chinese "replicas" down the road.
Maybe a way to get addresses of coin collectors for the price of a stamp. But probably not that nefarious, should have good thoughts.
Yes, he's buying feedback. One of his last purchases was a stylus, for 6 cents, free shipping. Also, in the last two months, he's made several "private" purchases from sellers that I would be inclined to think are Chinese sellers, but all are no longer registered on ebay, and the sales items have been removed. Irritating--fake coins, now fake feedback.
No serious coin collectors would bid on those, so that is NOT the motivation for these listings. It is not economically possible to list anything that is mailed for "free" and charge just one cent, and make a profit. Thus, the motivation must be something else. They are for feedback only. The motivation by the seller - GET positive feedback. The motivation by the buyer - GET positive feedback. eBay requires 10, 50 or 100 feedback to "unlock" certain features (i.e., Buy it Now, no hold on PayPal payments, etc.). This is an easy, cheap way to abuse the system, er, um, get positive feedback. eBay could easily shut this guy down. Why don't they? It's not like they haven't been reported.
Something fishy about this person...I reported it to ebay..We'll see if they do anything, but I doubt it..
