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    Shill Bidding on eBay: Case Study #2

    Criminal facilitation As a matter of interest I have posted a summary of the current statute law on fraud by false representation in the US, UK and AU at http://www.auctionbytes.com/forum/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=24316 Fraud does not have to be successful to be a crime, the simple attempt of...
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    Shill Bidding on eBay: Case Study #2

    “What crime is committed?” I thought that I had already made that clear in the above intro, but … I think that my research shows that eBay, by its masking of bidder IDs, is obscuring and thereby deliberately encouraging and knowingly aiding and abetting shill bidding wire fraud, from which...
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    Shill Bidding on eBay: Case Study #2

    http://www.auctionbytes.com/forum/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=24411 Synopsis 11 April 2010 A synopsis? Better late than never. Well there is a lot of reading involved in the various linked articles. Not unreasonably, to convince anyone of the probable truth of the allegations that I make...
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    Shill Bidding on eBay: Case Study #2

    Some more thoughts on shill bidding on eBay … For all those eBay “buyers” who are still trying to find a bargain on eBay and are (hopefully) agile enough to avoid all the shill-bidding professional sellers that now infest eBay, eBay recently touted two Diamond/Titanium PowerSellers as major...
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    Shill Bidding on eBay: A Case Study

    Shill Bidding on eBay: an Ugly Story Shill Bidding on eBay: an Ugly Story Shining some light on the more sophisticated and therefore harder to detect shill bidding activity by many “professional” sellers on eBay auctions “Shill Bidding on eBay: Case Study #2”: This time including a...
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    Shill Bidding on eBay: A Case Study

    My tenth post ...
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    Shill Bidding on eBay: A Case Study

    My ninth post ...
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    Shill Bidding on eBay: A Case Study

    Shill Bidding on eBay: an Ugly Story My eighth post ...
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    Shill Bidding on eBay: Case Study #2

    Some more food for thought … Shill Bidding on eBay: Case Study #2 Shining some light on the more sophisticated and therefore harder to detect shill bidding activity by some “professional” sellers on eBay auctions Not another case study on shill bidding on eBay auctions? Yes, sorry...
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    Shill Bidding on eBay: A Case Study

    Hi harigupta, That is the question! I have to rely on my common sense. I am not a lawyer and that is the reason I here posted a link to my little "diatribe" in the hope that someone expert in the law might comment thereon. Many experienced eBay users have been complaining about eBay’s...
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    Shill Bidding on eBay: A Case Study

    I don’t know how easy it would be for eBay to implement a “shill score” mechanism or the like, I only know that it can be demonstrated that they are doing nothing proactive, which in effect is an aiding and abetting of the fraudsters before the fact. And, after the fact, eBay will deliberately...
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    Shill Bidding on eBay: A Case Study

    My fifth post. Sorry about the "work around", but I need at least five posts before I can post a link.
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    Shill Bidding on eBay: A Case Study

    You have to check the Bid History pages before you bid. There is not much point in suspecting that you have been shilled after you have won the item, because you will get no support in the matter from eBay. The only system eBay has for the detection of shill bidding is “reactive” and comes...
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    Shill Bidding on eBay: A Case Study

    “The Register” has done a story on the problem of shill bidding on eBay at theregister.co.uk/2009/07/10/ebay_and_shill_bidding
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    Shill Bidding on eBay: A Case Study

    My jurisdiction is: Australia For any eBay “buyers” that are still interested I have done a major update to my detailed case study of shill bidding on eBay and the abuse of eBay’s proxy bidding system—all exacerbated by eBay’s introduction of “hidden bidders”— Also now included is a...
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