Latest eBay seller BS

----- Original Message ----- From: "William Donzelli" <wdonzelli at gmail.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 3:11 PM Subject: Re: Latest eBay seller BS I don't bid on rarities against people with deep pockets, I use ebay for relatively common things I need to fix/finish some project or other. When I bid on something like a junker Pentium laptop I wanted for parts that nobody else has bid on 2 days left in the auction and 5 minutes later some recent account with under 5 feedback incrementally bids until they top my bid something is fishy. Every time I seen an auction for some common item going for 5x what it should there is some new account with under 5 feedback doing the same crap to every bidder (and usually there are 2 new accounts with low feedback fighting over it). Sure you can say its some new people on ebay in a bidding war, but this isn't 2001 anymore and that just doesn't happen very often. Then a week later the same item/picture is relisted hoping for somebody to bid on it and get it cheaper then the last final fake price. There are usually enough real bidders to drive up prices for very uncommon stuff so shilling isn't needed. The low end stuff is flooded with cheap BIN auctions. Seems like larger (too big to ship from Asia cheaply) commodity stuff is where sellers want to double their profit and do shilling.