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Is Someone Gaming Warren Buffett's Charity Auction?By Adam Clark Estes Jun 06, 2011 Warren Buffett's annual lunch auction already resembles a high stakes game of chicken between two eBay users. In less than 24-hours, user o***r and s***l ratcheted up the price of lunch for eight with the investmen...

What doomed the online auction?Bidding online for everything from designer jeans to appliances was supposed to overhaul commerce as we knew it. What happened?By Kim Peterson on Tue, Jun 14, 2011 4:18 PMOnline auctions were supposed to be the next big thing. At least that's what people thought in...

eBay Adds Facebook Like Buttons to Listings By: Ina SteinerSat Apr 16 2011 016:40:58 eBay is adding Facebook Like buttons to the top of listings so users can share specific eBay items on the social networking site, and the buttons are already beginning to appear in some categories. ... ...However, t...

Is that bid for real? Online fraud hard to detectBy Purva PatelPublished 10:39 p.m., Friday, March 9, 2012 An employee at a local online auction site used faked bids to drive up prices, the company's CEO in Harris County testified in state district court. While on the stand last month in a case he brou...

There's been quite a bit about this issue around the web. It concerns what apears to be obvious shill bidding as per statements made by the seller, observations of bidding patterns, feedback, items being relisted even though semingly being 'won'. All this relates directly to a Reality TV show on VH1...

woweBay Relaxes Shill Bidding Provision in Major Policy Shift

Consumerist.com, Includes pollShould Sellers' Friends & Family Be Allowed To Place Bids On eBay Items?

It's long...ebaY's Secret Shill Bidding Policy and Tutorial Changes Revisited -- Edited by budnonymous on Sunday 30th of December 2012 06:21:30 PM

Ebay Revises Shill Bidding Policy It has been a long standing policy with eBay that the friends and family of an eBay seller could not bid on a seller's items. The reason for this policy was that eBay had concerns that the seller's friends or family would bid on an item to increase the price, but actuall...

Expect to see lots more of this... I will bid On Your EBAY Item To Drive The Price Up for $5

This type of thing, overbidding, thrill bidding, or serial non paying bidder scams, has really been taking off on ebay. Not only the Nike and other high-priced shoes, but apparently trashed the entire strawberry shortcake doll collecting world as well. Just another way ebay is protecting it's se...

Minister confirms shill bidding to be crime Wednesday, 19 June 2013 Consumer affairs minister Craig Foss opened the ScamScape forum in Wellington this week discussing shill bidding - and confirming it is set to be explicitly outlawed under new consumer law. "Shill bidding is a criminal off...

'King of Memorabilia' pleads guilty to fraud by KIM JANSSEN Federal Courts Reporter October 10, 2013 The so-called "King of Memorabilia" faces up to five years in prison after he pleaded guilty Thursday to a fraud scheme that included doctoring the most expensive baseball card ever so...

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ebay Warren Buffet finance shill bidding charity glide missionfish Is Someone Gaming Warren Buffett's Charity Auction? (Preview)	CAPP	0	1218	Jun 7, 2011 by budnonymous
Is Someone Gaming Warren Buffett's Charity Auction?By Adam Clark Estes Jun 06, 2011 Warren Buffett's annual lunch auction already resembles a high stakes game of chicken between two eBay users. In less than 24-hours, user o*r and s*l ratcheted up the price of lunch for eight with the investmen...
ebay paypal policies decline auctions sniping shill bidding counterfeit What doomed the online auction? (Preview)	CAPP	0	1936	Jun 15, 2011 by budnonymous
What doomed the online auction?Bidding online for everything from designer jeans to appliances was supposed to overhaul commerce as we knew it. What happened?By Kim Peterson on Tue, Jun 14, 2011 4:18 PMOnline auctions were supposed to be the next big thing. At least that's what people thought in...
ebay policies facebook like buttons privacy shill bidding social networking eBay Adds Facebook Like Buttons to Listings (Preview)	CAPP	1	1392	Jul 23, 2011 by budnonymous
eBay Adds Facebook Like Buttons to Listings By: Ina SteinerSat Apr 16 2011 016:40:58 eBay is adding Facebook Like buttons to the top of listings so users can share specific eBay items on the social networking site, and the buttons are already beginning to appear in some categories. ... ...However, t...
ebay fraud shill bidding fake ID Is that bid for real? Online fraud hard to detect (Preview)	CAPP	0	1010	Mar 12, 2012 by budnonymous
Is that bid for real? Online fraud hard to detectBy Purva PatelPublished 10:39 p.m., Friday, March 9, 2012 An employee at a local online auction site used faked bids to drive up prices, the company's CEO in Harris County testified in state district court. While on the stand last month in a case he brou...
ebay edropoff Corri McFadden shill bidding VH1 scandal House of Consignment The edropoff shill bidding scandal on ebay (Preview)	CAPP	8	5985	Dec 28, 2013 by budnonymous
There's been quite a bit about this issue around the web. It concerns what apears to be obvious shill bidding as per statements made by the seller, observations of bidding patterns, feedback, items being relisted even though semingly being 'won'. All this relates directly to a Reality TV show on VH1...
ebay shill bidding change fraud policies eBay Relaxes Shill Bidding Provision in Major Policy Shift (Preview)	CAPP	0	1080	Dec 26, 2012 by budnonymous
woweBay Relaxes Shill Bidding Provision in Major Policy Shift
ebay shill bidding change fraud policies Should Sellers' Friends & Family Be Allowed To Place Bids On eBay Items? (Preview)	CAPP	0	1304	Dec 28, 2012 by budnonymous
Consumerist.com, Includes pollShould Sellers' Friends & Family Be Allowed To Place Bids On eBay Items?
ebay shill bidding tutorial scandal fraud PR policies ebaY's Secret Shill Bidding Policy and Tutorial Changes Revisited (Preview)	CAPP	4	1723	Apr 14, 2013 by budnonymous
It's long...ebaY's Secret Shill Bidding Policy and Tutorial Changes Revisited -- Edited by budnonymous on Sunday 30th of December 2012 06:21:30 PM
ebay shill bidding change policies Ebay Revises Shill Bidding Policy (Preview)	CAPP	0	1037	Dec 31, 2012 by budnonymous
Ebay Revises Shill Bidding Policy It has been a long standing policy with eBay that the friends and family of an eBay seller could not bid on a seller's items. The reason for this policy was that eBay had concerns that the seller's friends or family would bid on an item to increase the price, but actuall...
ebay shill bidding commercial service fraud I will bid On Your EBAY Item To Drive The Price Up for $5 (Preview)	CAPP	0	942	Jan 12, 2013 by budnonymous
Expect to see lots more of this... I will bid On Your EBAY Item To Drive The Price Up for $5
NPB non paying bidder overbidding shill bidding Nike Strawberry Shortcake scam deadbeat Fake accounts keep over-bidding my auctions and then not paying - nike shoe (Preview)	CAPP	0	1407	Mar 11, 2013 by budnonymous
This type of thing, overbidding, thrill bidding, or serial non paying bidder scams, has really been taking off on ebay. Not only the Nike and other high-priced shoes, but apparently trashed the entire strawberry shortcake doll collecting world as well. Just another way ebay is protecting it's se...
shill bidding fraud new zealand crime Minister confirms shill bidding to be crime (Preview)	CAPP	1	924	Jun 20, 2013 by budnonymous
Minister confirms shill bidding to be crime Wednesday, 19 June 2013 Consumer affairs minister Craig Foss opened the ScamScape forum in Wellington this week discussing shill bidding - and confirming it is set to be explicitly outlawed under new consumer law. "Shill bidding is a criminal off...
shill bidding fraud Mastro Auctions sports memorabilia 'King of Memorabilia' pleads guilty to fraud (Preview)	CAPP	0	720	Oct 15, 2013 by budnonymous
'King of Memorabilia' pleads guilty to fraud by KIM JANSSEN Federal Courts Reporter October 10, 2013 The so-called "King of Memorabilia" faces up to five years in prison after he pleaded guilty Thursday to a fraud scheme that included doctoring the most expensive baseball card ever so...