6 May
2014
6 May
'14
1:20 p.m.
Two things I don't like about ebay now.
One is Shill bidding has become a way of life with
some sellers. When 90% of there sales are "second chance"
you know something is wrong but ebay doesn't
do anything other than turn it into local law that have better
things to do.
The other is the clutter of items that are priced beyond anything
that I'd ever pay. Since they can stay there forever, it make searching
for new interesting items a pain.
I just don't look anymore.
I'm sure I'm missing things I want but I just don't have time
to filter through thousands of items I've see for 2 years.
Dwight
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 23:19:11 -0700
From: jws at jwsss.com
To:
Subject: Re: Bidding
On 5/5/2014 10:44 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
Now that eBay obscures bidder identity, how can
one know that this certain individual has placed a bid?
The way I deduce identities
is to look at auctions where i'm interested
in an individual. If they win the auction, and leave feedback, i can
get their ID from the feedback.
From there on I go with them as "mr 762" or such where the feedback
count gives them away.
Just go to you list of identities and double check the count.
I don't know who Chuck is referring to, but I know of three people in
the category (and one who doesn't bid on ebay to my knowledge) that can
buy anything they like. I knew the Id's from the counts of a couple of
them as certain things were put up for sale for a while and they
vacuumed them up. I still peruse their buys for pointers to sales.
the sales I don't want to interfere with, but sellers frequently have no
clue of what they are selling. So when someone finds something I'm
interested in I like to look at the things they buy to get ideas for
new search formulas.
A few of the scientific gizmos I like to troll for people don't have any
idea what the proper name is or the description, and I've found a few by
following this strategy.
Jim