136 Bid Retractions in 6 mos?!

[vintagetoppsguy]

Originally Posted by sean1125

the difference between greg and probstein is that greg actually blocked the bidder to protect himself.

+1000

[Edwolf1963]

At what point does eBay restrict or boot these people? Isn't this against their stated "policy"? Why should Greg have to protect himself from this crap, shouldn't eBay do that? Or does this fall into another one of those "they spend a lot of money here, so let's look the other way" things?

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Edwolf1963

At what point does eBay restrict or boot these people? Isn't this against their stated "policy"? Why should Greg have to protect himself from this crap, shouldn't eBay do that? Or does this fall into another one of those "they spend a lot of money here, so let's look the other way" things?

My guess would be that they make eBay a ton of cash so they look the other way. As for Greg protecting himself from this crap it was a good thing a fellow member brought it to his attention so he could block that buyer.

[Edwolf1963]

Originally Posted by bnorth

My guess would be that they make eBay a ton of cash so they look the other way. As for Greg protecting himself from this crap it was a good thing a fellow member brought it to his attention so he could block that buyer.

And my point wasn't about what Greg needed to do - obviously the right thing in this instance. More from the standpoint of what does eBay do to restrict or suspend bidders who abuse their stated policies.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Edwolf1963

And my point wasn't about what Greg needed to do - obviously the right thing in this instance. More from the standpoint of what does eBay do to restrict or suspend bidders who abuse their stated policies.

eBay really does nothing even when made aware of shill bidding. There is a seller from Japan that shills every one of their auctions like mad. Last time I posted a link to the shill account it had over 5000 retractions. I know for a fact eBay has been contacted about that seller several times and to this day has done nothing.