I met a couple of wannabe pickers who throw their stuff on ebay and then shill bid it up. most of the time they wind up buying their own stuff because they do a no reserve auction. I would love to turn them in but I feel like it would go nowhere so I decided to not even bother. Does anyone know why they would risk buying their own stuff repeatedly, seems to me they would pay the ebay fees repeatedly for the same item until they got lucky and someone fell for it and bid
You can agree with the buyer to cancel the auction after the auction ends..... No fees. Its really easy to agree to cancel the auction when you are the buyer and under a second name like your wife or you have your buddy tossing in protection bids. I have a buddy that got caught bidding with a second account in his own name and got suspended for a bit but it was no big deal and he was right back on.
Think if it this way, a real auction doesn't get into the middle of bidding and run out of time while people are bidding. the give last call and if a bid goes in everyone gets another chance to bid so you can't time a bid. So it is just a way to make sure you get full value of what someone wants to pay without paying a reserve fee which is a total useless fee anyway. Also, people won't bid against a reserve, but they will bid against another ebayer all day long.
