NJRoadfan wrote on 2022-10-27, 02:32:
I wouldn't use ebay as a pricing guideline anymore. It is no longer a transparent marketplace. ebay hides "best offer" selling prices and bidder lists making it impossible to actually figure out what stuff sold for. They also completely shut off any ability to detect fraud and/or shill bidding on items.
finding shill bids is still easy enough .. I mean that one bidder with 6 bids on a auction and 100% activity on this seller with 0 bids on any other auction and less than 30 rating ..yeah that isn't at all suspicious.
Shit I have retracted what would have been a winning bid on an auction before because of the shill bidding .. I mean fuck it let the shill bidder win after I drive the price up .. let that fucker handle the fees and shit to relist. It was just me and the shill bidder bidding on this auction, I don't like retracting bids and eBay is very strict on when you can do this .. but if worst came to worst I would simply not pay if I had any kind of proof of bullshittery by the seller.
And yup the very same seller did in fact relist the auction a week later, this time with a BIN option at the price they actually wanted to sell the item for.
Does this make me terrible ?