posted on January 27, 2008 03:51:57 AM new
So, second week back in the saddle after a slow start and an end to a three year hiatus and this guy has to be bidding on one of my items.
Q: Are you DAj7 bidder? I think is it strange that right after my bid and before the privous bidder that Daj7 bid to incresae the bidding and he/she has a zero succuss at winning any auctions. If you are Daj7, you just lost my any chance of me bidding again. I was really hoping to get this bottle fairly. I am very suspicious of this.
Then I get this message:
And I just noticed that both of you have been members since 1999 but Daj7 has never won any auctions, too much of a coinceidence. I will not be bidding on this again.
I didn’t check the email before I went to bed so now I find it in my insomniac bliss. It seems to me, by reviewing the bid history, that this is cut and dried, but it does confuse bidders because the times next to proxy bids are apparently based on the time the bid was placed, not the time the proxy kicks in. Suffice it to say, in almost ten years of perfect record, it offends me to be accused of shill biding. It is quite bazar that out of the blue, someone who joined in 1999, the same year I joined, decides to place his first bid on my item, and on an antique bottle of all things. Like there hasn’t been any more bottles to bid on in the last ten years.
Anyway, I notice buddy here has one neutral suggesting that he is not nice to deal with so frankly, I hope he doesn’t bid anymore. This is a very exceptional bottle and some deserving bidder is going to get it.
posted on January 27, 2008 05:22:04 AM new
He actually received a negative and a neutral (and left one of each, the negative retracted). Use http://www.toolhaus.org/ to check on this (and give them a donation if you use them in the future; it's a really useful tool).
I was accused of shill bidding twice, once by someone who tried to commit extortion on me, threatening to turn me in to eBay. I told them that they didn't have to bother, I had already turned the situation in to eBay, as I considered their email to be extortion (she wanted a lowered price or she would turn me in).
The other time was eBay themselves, because my wife had bid on an item at the store that I used to own. We don't bid there any more, which is too bad, because since it's local, we can avoid shipping charges and they frequently have nice items. Our intent was always to win the item, never to raise the price.
If you're leery of them, and that's not far-fetched, just block them from future bidding.
posted on January 27, 2008 07:11:58 AM new
Thanks for the URL, I shall have to check that out. I actually did see the neutral and it seems to indicate an individual I don't want to deal with. I thought about blocking him but If I piss him off I could end up with a situation and I would just as soon avoid craziness. I sent him two polite replies, albeit I told him I was offended that he would accuse me after nine perfect years on Ebay.
I mean I haven't even sold anything for three years and now on my second week, after four decent auctions last week, which by the way if I were shilling, that would have been the time to do it, now I get this. Like I would establish an ID for shilling and then wait nine long years to use it.
I'm going to wait and see what happens, I also sent a reply to the second message explaining the bid history but I doubt we are dealing with someone who will understand.
posted on January 28, 2008 01:52:46 AM new
Update:
The bidder with no feedback is a fellow from Southern California that accepted a job out of the country soon after signing up in 1999 and has been too busy to use it. This week, he finally gravitated back to Ebay and decided to add to his bottle collection.
