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Originally Posted by 1952boyntoncollector
still ebay a LOOT better than auction house...if someone retracts a bid you know about it and you can get the seller to cancel the sale if you 'win' the item a lot easer with ebay then another AH where you don't even know that you are being shilled...plus if someone retracts a bid you may have enough time to retract your own bid as well...
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What if you're a seller and you have to deal with this dipsh*t behavior. As I've explained before, a lot of the time it isn't even a shilling situation. It's a bidding strategy to sabotage an auction.
Hell, even in non-retraction situations it's getting ridiculous out there. I had an item up several weeks ago that I'm convinced two bidders drove up to a very high level, with zero intention to pay, in order to drive up the realized price of something they already had in their collection.
Within a short time of the auction closing, both the first and second high bidders start trying to negotiate with me to sell them the piece at a fraction of what they originally bid on the item. I filed a non-paying strike and blocked the high bidder. I doubt there were any consequences to him however.
Meanwhile, I have two of the exact same item in the ended auction listings on Ebay, with two very different results, and to anybody doing the research,
I'm probably the one who looks like the bad guy here.
There are zero repercussions for buyers with bad intentions.