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Originally Posted by 13goyankees13
eBay defines shill bidding as bidding to artificially increase price, search standing, or desirability. There's no requirement that it's the same person who is selling it.
That doesn't mean ebay will put effort into looking for those types of shill bids or will even do anything about it if they know for sure it is a shill bid.
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They have recently reworded that then, it used to say with the sellers knowledge. Ebay has also made it harder to catch shill bidders by hiding buyers ID and removing bid history searches. The talk is bid histories are about to become viewable only to the seller and bidders in the future.
Me and other sellers once reported a large electronics seller who had a bidder who bid on everything. He had well over 10,000 bids with 100% with the seller as well as nearly 4000 retractions. When you dug you could see the classic give away places a bid becomes the high bidder. Immediatly retracts and rebids just below the under bidders max. He would do this 3 or 4 times on some listings. Ebays response there is no evidence.
Ebay make money off shill bidding so they have no incentive to do anything.
These large consigners cannot stop consignors from bidding on their own items, but at the same time they have some loyal buyers who are willing to pay more to buy the item from them. This is a common occurrence. We see it all the time in the retail world a person would rather pay more for an item on Amazon or Target than they will for the same item at Wal-Mart.
If you don't like them the only solution is to hit the back button, they are not going anywhere anytime soon.