This is a guide to some of the strategies and techniques employed by dishonest eBayers, both buyers and sellers. One of a series of no-nonsense, advert-free "coffee-break" guides I have written for new UK...
It may be not for me to say but we have all seen it too often, something put on Ebay with a starting price of next to nothing to attract a bid on an item which clearly has a high value, we have wondered how on...
It is important to remember that eBay is a lot like a marketplace. There will always be a dodgy guy in the corner, selling things that most people wouldn’t touch. The trouble is that, on the Internet, these...
If you are a user of eBay then the chances are, that you have already come across the term “shill bidding”. Shill bidding, is bidding that is used to artificially inflate the price of a certain item. Shill...
Safeguarding Members ID's Let me first say that I totally agree with eBay's new Safeguarding Members' IDs policy, because it stops fake second chance offers dead! Sellers of high value items, like myself,...
Worried that the item you're buying is being shill bidded? Shill bidding is when a seller either uses another ebay account they own, or have a friend bid on an item you are bidding on - to artificially up the...
Okay, we've all read countless reviews about feedback scams, mobile phone scams, shill bidding scams, "buy it now" scams asking for a "deposit via paypal" to secure the deal, postage scams where sellers charge...
Ebay has just launched a wondereful new concept, bid over £100 and get ripped off. Yes if you bid on a item that goes over the magical £100 mark you have absolutely no idea who is bidding against you, it could...
I absolutely HATE bidding on an item when I have been outbid by a member with LOW or ZERO feedback. My advice is check the bidder out first before trying to outbid them as it is more often than not the seller...
I found this and thought it would be useful, written by an Ebayer who is credited at the bottom ! Ebay Codes FVF - Final Value Fee Bump - Bring Up My post (to move your thread to the top) NPB - None...