I won an item today. Start price 99p and my one bid was £8.50. Only one other person has bid against me - 4 seperate bids up to the value of £5 which means that this is the price I will pay.
On looking at the bidding records on this bidder they have a feedback score of 23 and 100% bidding percentage with the seller. This seems suspiciously like shill bidding to me!
I haven't paid for the item yet as I'm quite miffed and tempted to contact the seller to tell her that I'm suspicious of the other bidder and asking her to invoice me the 99p which is the price I would have won the item for if the other bidder hadn't inflated the price!
I also want to report to eBay.
What do you think? Has anyone else had experience of this and what was the outcome if you did anything about it? I still want the item but feel a bit cheated TBH! I don't like seeing people get away with cheating.
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Gingefringe · 16/06/2013 18:35
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