Update on PWCC Bid Monitoring Program

[PhillipAbbott79]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

Probably because they have a massive number of listings going at the same time. I usually have only 300 or so auctions going at once and it would be impossible for me to monitor every single bidder for their retraction history. The only time I ever look at a bidders history is when they have actually retracted a bid. It would be very easy for ebay to allow sellers to block serial bid retractors but ebay doesn't want that to happen.

Even if it was your full time job to do so? You can get any kid off the internet for 9 bucks an hour to police this stuff. You could outsource it to India, for 3 dollars an hour if you are that hard up for cash.

It is a zero skill job. I know for a fact I could find someone for 3.00 an hour within 1 day time.

[irv]

Originally Posted by PhillipAbbott79

Even if it was your full time job to do so? You can get any kid off the internet for 9 bucks an hour to police this stuff. You could outsource it to India, for 3 dollars an hour if you are that hard up for cash.

It is a zero skill job. I know for a fact I could find someone for 3.00 an hour within 1 day time.

Kinda of what I was wondering/thinking?
I mean, have a hired person check bids regularly, ban/give the boot to those with over 10 or 25 retractions, or whatever the new number is, and be done with them.
Once weeded out, it wouldn't be that hard of a job, as far as I know, to keep up with, imo.

[swarmee]

If I was them and wanted to put an end to this, I would sort by "number of bids" after two days into the auction. All 25 of those bump bids to get the item on the "HOT LIST" would be eliminated, and the consignors (err, um, bidders) of those items would be blacklisted from consigning with me. And then I'd check their retraction history. And then I'd go out of business due to lack of consignors and blocked bidders. So I can see why they're slow-rolling this as long as they can.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by PhillipAbbott79

Even if it was your full time job to do so? You can get any kid off the internet for 9 bucks an hour to police this stuff. You could outsource it to India, for 3 dollars an hour if you are that hard up for cash.

It is a zero skill job. I know for a fact I could find someone for 3.00 an hour within 1 day time.

I would think it would be easier and cheaper in the long run for PWCC to have someone design a program to monitor their bidders. People have made apps that let you know who unfriends/unfollows you on facebook, it can't be much harder to program than that.

[Brent Huigens]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

I would think it would be easier and cheaper in the long run for PWCC to have someone design a program to monitor their bidders. People have made apps that let you know who unfriends/unfollows you on facebook, it can't be much harder to program than that.

Great suggestion - it is actually something we are having our software developer explore through the eBay API. Although it is easier said than done because of the kind of data that eBay makes available through their API, we are optimistic that something automated can be put in place.

Betsy Huigens
PWCC Auctions, LLC