I'm not sure whether most sellers out there are actually tossers or whether I just seem to have the misfortune to come across them!
I bid on a pushchair on Saturday and was outbid by £5. Despite putting what I decided would be my maximum bid in the final few seconds, I got outbid then frantically decided I could go a bit higher but was too late! Wasn't too gutted as I know when you think 'oh for the sake of another £5', in reality you could have just t bid up and up beyond what you wanted to pay.
Anyway, still after this type of puschair so do another local search to find the exact same one listed as it has the same 8 photos of it but it now has a reserve price and listing says 'selling for a friend'. Hmmm
Looked at the feedback for the new seller and surprise, surprise, they have feedback on an item that ended only 3 hours ago from the same buyer ID as the person who won the pushchair auction. You with me so far? Interestingly, this item that just ended only had one bid and not very high so it is quite clear that this 'buyer' is an alternative ID/friend bidding on items so they don't get snapped up for a low price / to up genuine bidders' bids.
Grrrr! This kind of thing really gets to me.
I feel quite annoyed that had I put in a higher bid for tha pushchair and eventually won it on Saturday, the price was only put up falsely, in fact, fraudulently so at least I can gain some satisfaction I wasn't duped. But someone else will be now.
Has anyone else found obvious examples of blatant cheating on eb@y and if so, have they reported it with any outcome? I get the sense that eb@y is so huge, would anyone be bothered putting time to uncover stuff like this and take action?
