It's a mad mad mad mad ebay world

Marky
Marky Posts: 504
edited November 2010 in The bottom bracket
Can anybody figure out what was going on here, in ebay land?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/kona-mountain-bik ... 03?afsrc=1

Just browsing a bit and I see this Kona Mountain bike. Description mentions that the Carrera frame was changed to Kona, and certain bits and pieces. Not something I'd be tempted to bid on really, and the photo's unclear.

What would you say was a rough value/price... £100-200?
Whatever - how come it ends up at £1,020? What the......!

The seller's new, and all the high crazy bidding was done by two new ebayers. So, I don't know, maybe there was a bit of underhandness going on for some reason, but puzzling in this case.

Curious. What was this all about do you reckon?

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  • ShutUpLegs
    ShutUpLegs Posts: 3,522
    shill bidded up?

    And sale will never complete?
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    You have PM...
  • jim453
    jim453 Posts: 1,360
    Why all cloak and dagger?
  • dodgy
    dodgy Posts: 2,890
    Perhaps because shilling is a reasonably serious crime, a guy got done for it a while back and was sent to prison.

    Edit: Looks like he escaped prison http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 103296.ece
  • jim453
    jim453 Posts: 1,360
    So? Why all the cloak and dagger?
  • dilemna
    dilemna Posts: 2,187
    It seems rather fishy. To bid on it you would have to have rocks in your head.
    Life is like a roll of toilet paper; long and useful, but always ends at the wrong moment. Anon.
    Think how stupid the average person is.......
    half of them are even more stupid than you first thought.
  • TuckerUK
    TuckerUK Posts: 369
    Something dishonest happening on eBay? Are you sure? Well that doesn't seem likely now does it! :roll:

    I refuse to use my account now after they removed my neutral (i.e. not good, not bad) feedback against a seller. So the feedback selling is worthless and misrepresentative. And last time I checked you couldn't find their registered trading address (as required by UK law) for love nor money.
    "Coming through..."
  • dilemna
    dilemna Posts: 2,187
    TuckerUK wrote:
    Something dishonest happening on eBay? Are you sure? Well that doesn't seem likely now does it! :roll:

    I refuse to use my account now after they removed my neutral (i.e. not good, not bad) feedback against a seller. So the feedback selling is worthless and misrepresentative. And last time I checked you couldn't find their registered trading address (as required by UK law) for love nor money.

    This link should provide you with all you need to know about complaining to or suing Ebay.

    http://www.thewholesaleforums.co.uk/for ... aypal.html
    Life is like a roll of toilet paper; long and useful, but always ends at the wrong moment. Anon.
    Think how stupid the average person is.......
    half of them are even more stupid than you first thought.
  • badly_dubbed
    badly_dubbed Posts: 1,350
    that sold for a grand?????
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  • nolf
    nolf Posts: 1,287
    Ebay would be a great site for money laundering.
    1k for something worthless and wahey, legitimate moneys.
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    I feel it, when I sorrow most;
    'Tis better to have loved and lost;
    Than never to have loved at all."

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  • andy162
    andy162 Posts: 634
    Slightly off topic, I recently sold a Force groupset on eBay. Stuck a "Buy it Now" price of £350 on it. Hardly a sniff 'til the last couple of minutes then bidding went daft. A guy obviously doesn't want to be out bid so pays over BIN price! Why not just click BIN & have done?

    I guess it's too easy to get wrapped up in a spot of bidding madness.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I love e bay. I just got a sora cassette for my winter bike, new in box for 4 quid. Magic.

    Sometimes life on Ebay is sweet.
  • Supergoose
    Supergoose Posts: 1,089
    badly_dubbed wrote:
    that sold for a grand?????

    I'd wager,.... not.
    Rock 'n' Roule
  • softlad
    softlad Posts: 3,513
    jim453 wrote:
    So? Why all the cloak and dagger?

    clearly you don't 'need to know' jim.....
  • jgsi
    jgsi Posts: 5,062
    If as suspected the final bids were all made up by a dummy account by the seller... he is still gonna get an ebay invoice to the tune of .. £80 or so? then he is going to have to wriggle out of that..
  • volvicspar
    volvicspar Posts: 208
    He can just do a cancel transaction with him self and get the fees refunded.

    It could be that two scammers were bidding against each other though, happens a lot with old mobile phones worth £5 fetching hundreds .
  • jim453
    jim453 Posts: 1,360
    softlad wrote:
    jim453 wrote:
    So? Why all the cloak and dagger?

    clearly you don't 'need to know' jim.....

    Yes, clearly.

    Is our resident law enforcement officer actually 'policing' the forum now?


    Got to go, i'm up to ten grand on my own appollo 'all terrain bike' and the auction ends in a minute.

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