Reporting Shill Bidders

[LittleSpiffy]

I am curious:

I won an auction (non-mlp) and, after reviewing the bid history, suspect that there was a shill bidder.

I already paid for the auction, but alerted eBay anyway.

Think eBay will do anything?

[bluerose9978]

I am curious:

I won an auction (non-mlp) and, after reviewing the bid history, suspect that there was a shill bidder.

I already paid for the auction, but alerted eBay anyway.

Think eBay will do anything?

I doubt it. I had a seller who was shill bidding on all her auctions and it was blatantly obvious and I reported her numerous times and eBay did nothing. She even signed my husband up for several magazine subscriptions and bid on some of my auctons, said they were garbage and wanted to get out of buying them just to get back at me for reporting her for scamming. Then she joined the MLPTP and started harassing the admin. And eBay did nothing. She's still selling to this day. And most likely still shilling.

[lovesbabysquirmy]

Please share their IDs with the community so others aren't scammed. 

However, Ebay gets a "final value fee" so they really don't care if someone is shilling the bids up... they get more money that way! 

[ponylady]

eBays practice is to react to reports by monitoring the number of reports a seller is getting regarding any breach of policy.  They tend not to act on reports from just one person for obvious reasons and are looking for strong evidence before they will act. No body knows how many reports will trigger action - it may be quite a few but eBay just dont say. Even when eBay do act the first contact with any offender will be to tell them to stop and make sure they are aware of the rules. The next stage will result in some sort of action like limiting or suspending selling privileges. If the reports are not coming in, as is my guess, month after month after month ( perhaps years?)  will go by and shilling will merrily continue.