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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Casman, post: 3083744, member: 85295&quot;]I&#039;ve been trying to follow along with this shill argument.&nbsp; There are some sellers on Ebay that are known to use shills.&nbsp; 100 percent bid activity 100&#039;s of bids with the same seller certainly raise red flags.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I list which is not that often, I set it and forget it until it&#039;s done.&nbsp; I rarely look at the bid history.&nbsp; I have on a few occasions and have had bidders place 20 bids until they are on top.&nbsp; Does that look funny?&nbsp; To some it can.&nbsp; The motive, maybe to scare other bidders off.&nbsp; I&#039;ve also observed people bid while on cell phones and they have these bid boxes 12 -14-16-18 etc and I think some people get caught up like it&#039;s a video game gambling platform, click click click.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think Ebay carries direct fault for not enforcing NPBs.&nbsp; I&#039;ve had that happen where some nut bids it up then doesn&#039;t pay, more noticeably a recent trend.&nbsp; I left the last buyer that pulled that stunt the following feedback:&nbsp; &nbsp; Bid $480, NO PAYMENT, NO COMMUNICATION, NO RESPONSE, BLOCKED!!!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Now anythings possible as a practical matter I mean the guy could have died etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regardless, I think Marshall is suggesting that all sellers should closely monitor bid activity and on the guess the bidders placing too many bids that the seller is obligated to cancel all their bids and block them.&nbsp; Maybe that&#039;s not what he&#039;s saying but with this obligation I think it&#039;s a bit much.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have also had the occasion to look into bid history when there&#039;s a bid retraction.&nbsp; I have observed some bidders have hundreds of retractions within the past few months.&nbsp; I block them.&nbsp; Of note, the last time that happened, Ebay is supposed to give the seller the reason why and it&#039;s normally something stupid like entered wrong amount.&nbsp; The last one I had there was NO reason given whatsoever.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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