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by WHITE BEAR on June 16th, 2007

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What is shrill bidding on ebay?

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  • by PhilipCohen on July 4th, 2008

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    eBay introduces absolute anonymity for (shill) bidders

    In Australia and the UK (at the least) eBay has now obscured auction bidding to the point that genuine bidders have got absolutely no chance of detecting and thereby protecting themselves from “shill” bidding (a criminal offence in most civilised countries) by unethical vendors. Notwithstanding eBay’s statements to the contrary, this application of absolute anonymity by eBay serves no purpose other than to deceive consumers; and the same criticism has always applied to eBay’s other facility, “User ID kept private” (aka “the shill bidders’ stairway to paradise”). Again, notwithstanding eBay’s various pronouncements about shill bidding being banned on eBay, eBay is now knowingly “aiding and abetting” such shill bidders, at the expense of consumers ...

    The full detailed version of the above comment at:
    http://www.auctionbytes.com/forum/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=6498345#6498345

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