I notice Jonesband1998 has had a number of bids on his knock off Montana. Every bid is a ?***? name.
I have wondered fo a long time who all these *** people are on Ebay. Are they bid bots or something ? The site seems flooded with them ? Why do you
almost never see a seller named ?***? :puzzled:snobdr - 22-10-2009 at 04:27 PM
They did that to hide the identity of the bidders.macboy - 22-10-2009 at 05:20 PM
Yeah - sometimes you get to see them, sometimes not. Kinda annoys me when you can't see it. Actually, I think there was a kite that I inadvertently
bid against a PKFer on there once. It was all good in the end but man - we coulda unnecessarily hosed eachother ; )indigo_wolf - 22-10-2009 at 05:29 PM
EBay went a little overboard with the whole PC/paranoia thing.
ATB,
Sambigben91682 - 22-10-2009 at 05:35 PM
Usually you can't see the names until you bid on the item, then I think they become visible....like if you look at the bid history.kitejumper - 22-10-2009 at 05:58 PM
i remember when i bid on my andromeda a6 synth last year and i had a lovely price right around 1800 with not much time left--then all of a sudden this
idiot starts upping the price with all these bids--still, i got it brand new for 2100 and its a 3500 dollar synth,so its all good and worth every
penny---back on topic--i wonder who these people are? it would be great if we could warn them somehow.......ripsessionkites - 23-10-2009 at 04:17 AM
you can setup multi accounts and actually fake your own bids to drive the price up
people do this to avoid the reserve method
also with extra bids on the auction item it looks promising
you're only out the listing fees if no one bids
Ebay CSR also cant tell if someone is using Multi accounts, because you can use the same mailing address over and over again, but only changing your
email address. Obviously Ebay doesnt care, they just look at the $$$ they make and you're not selling human body parts you're okay in their eyes. Ebay
is a joke, and they let people get use it for jokes too like selling BC Ferries Fast Kats. it took them 4 days to bring it down.macboy - 23-10-2009 at 12:46 PM
I must confess I'm one of those auction "snipers". I decide on a price that I'm willing to pay and then when there are 2 minutes left in the auction I
enter it. That way I don't get caught up in the moment and keep upping my bid by $5 everyday ultimately spending more than I had originally allowed
myself to spend. I miss out on quite a few auctions but do win a few.
The added bonus is that your bid CAN'T be overbid 'cuz there just isn't enough time. If you put your first bid in right at the beginning, other
bidders can and will overbid you. So what do you do? You go up your bid again and so on. It's kinda the point of eBay actually. I just know I get too
caught up in stuff and it's safest for me to commit to a price and hold to it - bidding at the last minute and hoping.kitejumper - 23-10-2009 at 12:52 PM
well, i had decided in advance that 2500 would be the highest i would go, so at 2125--i save 375 off of that---and it was brand new with no glitches
and program bugs--fortunately it was a later batch and they all came out clean---in contrast to this item, i usually prefer the sniper method, but
this was too important to risk losing, so i had to go another way---there def are different tactics.......ragden - 23-10-2009 at 12:55 PM
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Originally posted by bigben91682
Usually you can't see the names until you bid on the item, then I think they become visible....like if you look at the bid history.
Actually, you can only see the first and last letter of their name. At least, thats what I recall when I was bidding on a Speed 2 12m kite that was on
E-Bay not too long ago.
I'm the kind of bidder who finds what I want, bids the price I want to spend, then ignores it for the rest of the time. Sometimes I'll go up by a very
small amount, but normally I leave it be...burritobandit - 23-10-2009 at 12:55 PM
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Originally posted by ripsessionkites
. Ebay is a joke, and they let people get use it for jokes too like selling BC Ferries Fast Kats. it took them 4 days to bring it down.
Someone put me up for auction on Ebay once. I was bid up to $35 bux the first day before Ebay took it down :/macboy - 23-10-2009 at 02:39 PM
Dude! I woulda gone $40 for ya man!william_rx7 - 23-10-2009 at 02:52 PM
