[SEL] E-bay Bidding Suscipious!!

[Mark Shulaw]

Private listings are controlled by the seller. Its an option that can be 
selected. You will see your bidder ID as you are a bidder but you will not 
see the others.
For example with things like sexually explicit or high dollar items many 
times its prefered by the buyer to remain anonymous for obvious reasons.
That said,
That many bids on a set of machinist CDs?????   The numbers of the bids 
make me wonder. They are probably fishing to uncover the high bidder by a 
dollar to poke the bid up as high as they can. Once they uncover your high 
bid by one dollar the hopes is you will bid again. This used to be very 
common and still happens some but Ebay usually catches it, especially if 
someone reports suspicious bidder activity.                       TTYL,  Mark


At 09:30 AM 10/25/07, you wrote:
>Apparently this is a "new EBay thing" that a seller has no control over.
>One of my recent listings came up that way (don't recall which one) & I
>sure didn't set it up that way.  Not something EBay should be able to
>control imho!!!!!!!!!!
>
>Lew Best near Waco, TX
>
>-----Original Message-----
>
>It's a private listing - all bidder's identities are kept secret.
>Personally, I wouldn't buy from a private listing.
>
>
>      Pete
>--
>Peter Scales
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com
> > [mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com] On Behalf Of
> > Paul Maples
> > Sent: 25 October 2007 12:56
> > To: sel at lists.stationary-engine.com
> > Subject: [SEL] E-bay Bidding Suscipious!!
> >
> > Take a look at this E-bay Item: 270177772101 and look at the
> > bidders list and tell me if you think something suspicious is
> > going on. My bids (wheelterrapin) is listed but the next 20
> > some odd bids are not. It is hard for me to believe that
> > there are several "Private" bidders on these CD's but maybe there are.
> >
> > Paul
> >

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