PhilipCohen
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Shill Bidding on eBay: an Ugly Story
Shill Bidding on eBay: an Ugly Story
Shining some light on the more sophisticated and therefore harder to detect shill bidding activity by many "professional" sellers on eBay auctions
"Shill Bidding on eBay: Case Study #2": This time including a spreadsheet analysis of multiple auctions, from some "professional" sellers from the US and Australia. Needless to say the analysis demonstrates, once again, that, contrary to eBay's claims, shill bidding by many "professional" sellers is rampant on eBay auctions. The full comment and spreadsheet download links at:
http://www.auctionbytes.com/forum/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=24296
For all those eBay "buyers" who are still trying to find a bargain on eBay and are (hopefully) agile enough to avoid all the shill-bidding professional sellers that now infest eBay, eBay recently touted two Diamond/Titanium PowerSellers as major success stories of selling on eBay. An analysis of bidding patterns on these two sellers' auctions suggests that they both could be habitual shill bidders. A full comment thereon at:
http://www.auctionbytes.com/forum/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=6502763
Why is "Noise" Donahoe trying to destroy eBay?
http://www.auctionbytes.com/forum/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=6502877
Shill Bidding on eBay: an Ugly Story
Shining some light on the more sophisticated and therefore harder to detect shill bidding activity by many "professional" sellers on eBay auctions
"Shill Bidding on eBay: Case Study #2": This time including a spreadsheet analysis of multiple auctions, from some "professional" sellers from the US and Australia. Needless to say the analysis demonstrates, once again, that, contrary to eBay's claims, shill bidding by many "professional" sellers is rampant on eBay auctions. The full comment and spreadsheet download links at:
http://www.auctionbytes.com/forum/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=24296
For all those eBay "buyers" who are still trying to find a bargain on eBay and are (hopefully) agile enough to avoid all the shill-bidding professional sellers that now infest eBay, eBay recently touted two Diamond/Titanium PowerSellers as major success stories of selling on eBay. An analysis of bidding patterns on these two sellers' auctions suggests that they both could be habitual shill bidders. A full comment thereon at:
http://www.auctionbytes.com/forum/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=6502763
Why is "Noise" Donahoe trying to destroy eBay?
http://www.auctionbytes.com/forum/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=6502877
