Is this a new form of ebay shilling

[alanu]

Or just a mixup, they have other cards with the same problem.

Same card, different sellers, different prices (4 available in each auction):

http://cgi.ebay.com/1911-S74-ROGER-B...item20aae65faf

http://cgi.ebay.com/1911-S74-ROGER-B...item3cb4953872

[D. Bergin]

Yeah, that 2nd seller was discussed here:

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=132599


They will probably disappear when they refuse to pay their huge Ebay bill for the 1000's of items they marked up for sale from other sellers and didn't sell.

[SteakNchop]

That's interesting. Very good way to play our minds. Too bad for that purpose.

[ctownboy]

This has been discussed in a couple of different threads.

Sportsgiftsandcollectibles is a rip-off artist.

What they do is find sports items which have a Buy It Now price and then they take that item, put it on their site and jack up the price. When someone buys the item from their site, they immediately go to the original site and buy the item for a lower price and pocket the difference.

With the S74 of Breshnahan you showed, fullcountcollections has a Buy It Now price of $299.99 while sportsgiftsandcollectibles has a Buy It Now price of $458.98.

A few weeks ago, when this was first talked about, the guy had something like 7,000 listings. eBay was notified and they closed the guy down. A few days later he was back at it again.

I am sure if eBay was notified again and they closed him down, he would again pop back up a few days later.

David

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by ctownboy

This has been discussed in a couple of different threads.

Sportsgiftsandcollectibles is a rip-off artist.

What they do is find sports items which have a Buy It Now price and then they take that item, put it on their site and jack up the price. When someone buys the item from their site, they immediately go to the original site and buy the item for a lower price and pocket the difference.

With the S74 of Breshnahan you showed, fullcountcollections has a Buy It Now price of $299.99 while sportsgiftsandcollectibles has a Buy It Now price of $458.98.

A few weeks ago, when this was first talked about, the guy had something like 7,000 listings. eBay was notified and they closed the guy down. A few days later he was back at it again.

I am sure if eBay was notified again and they closed him down, he would again pop back up a few days later.

David

It's a head-scratcher to me.

I looked through as many pages of their ended items as I had the patience for, and didn't find a single sold item.

It must have taken hundreds, if not thousands of hours to put this scheme together, and the only thing I see coming out of it is a huge Ebay bill at the end of the month.

Even if they actually follow through on a few transactions (selling an item, buying from another seller, getting that item in, shipping to the new buyer.......all assuming the original seller didn't already sell the item), I don't see a way of ever breaking even.

There must be something else we're not seeing. Maybe this same seller has a link farm he's sending traffic through these listings to collect Ad dollars from Google or Ebay...............I don't know.

[ctownboy]

D. Bergin,

Back in December and for the last couple of weeks (ending Feb. 8), eBay has had a No Listing Fee special going on where you could list up to 100 items a month for free. I don't know how many auctions this guy has going but for November, December, the last part of January and the first week of February, he could list 100 items for free for a total of 400 free listings.

David

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by ctownboy

D. Bergin,

Back in December and for the last couple of weeks (ending Feb. 8), eBay has had a No Listing Fee special going on where you could list up to 100 items a month for free. I don't know how many auctions this guy has going but for November, December, the last part of January and the first week of February, he could list 100 items for free for a total of 400 free listings.

David

Yeah, but he has over 7000 "Buy It Now" listings, which is an additional charge.

[ctownboy]

That is about how many he had when he was kicked off before. So, I have no clue how he lists so many auctions and pays for them all if he isn't selling anything.

David