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Giannas-mama
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Nicole
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Have you ever or would you ever...
bid or have a friend bid on your own ebay item to have the price go up?
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Posted 1/19/06 11:51 AM  |
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Christine
2nd verse same as the 1st
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Re: Have you ever or would you ever...
Nah, it's probably against ebays TOS plus if I wanted a higher price so badly, I would just start the bidding higher or use the reserve price option.
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| Posted 1/19/06 12:56 PM |
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Gertyrae
Peace out Homies!
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Gerty ®
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Re: Have you ever or would you ever...
I would never do it nor encourage it but my sister had a situation where she was selling a piece of her artwork and her boyfriend was bidding on it without her knowledge. When she found out she was P.O.'d - his intentions were good but she felt that it wasn't right to drive up the bidding like that.
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| Posted 1/19/06 1:32 PM |
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Janice
Sweet Jessie Quinn
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Janice
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Re: Have you ever or would you ever...
DH does this quite often
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| Posted 1/19/06 1:58 PM |
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FelAndJon
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Felice (aka LuckyBride2004)
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Re: Have you ever or would you ever...
DH did it for a friend and I was soo mad at him! I was afraid ebay would find out and "blackball" us!
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| Posted 1/19/06 2:01 PM |
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Re: Have you ever or would you ever...
DH's friends were doing that and they actually got a warning email from ebay.
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BabyAvocado
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Re: Have you ever or would you ever...
Posted by missus-hbradio
DH's friends were doing that and they actually got a warning email from ebay.
Really? How did ebay know they were friends that were bidding?
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| Posted 1/19/06 2:04 PM |
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Giannas-mama
Happy Birthday baby girl!!
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Nicole
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Re: Have you ever or would you ever...
My brother last night was telling me that he wanted his girlfriend to to bid on his item to jack up the price. I told him that is not right and what comes around goes around. I was just wondering if people to that, because I have never sold things on ebay but I have bought things on ebay and he had me thinking.
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| Posted 1/19/06 2:09 PM |
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Posted by BabyAvocado
Posted by missus-hbradio
DH's friends were doing that and they actually got a warning email from ebay.
Really? How did ebay know they were friends that were bidding?
I dont know exactly if they knew that they were friends but somehow they knew that they were just jacking each others auctions up.
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| Posted 1/19/06 2:11 PM |
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Myrockette
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Re: Have you ever or would you ever...
I did it for DH's friend to make the reserve price met. was the highest bid I ever made! over $40,000
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| Posted 1/19/06 2:12 PM |
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baghag
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Re: Have you ever or would you ever...
Posted by BabyAvocado
Posted by missus-hbradio
DH's friends were doing that and they actually got a warning email from ebay.
Really? How did ebay know they were friends that were bidding?
Ebay watches auctions for this kind of stuff, plus a lot of other people do too. Most sellers will report the auction to Ebay if they suspect you are doing it.
A really obvious one would be three or four ID's with no purchases bidding on several items from the same seller.
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| Posted 1/19/06 2:12 PM |
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CathyB
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Re: Have you ever or would you ever...
One time I bid to win BILs auction b/c he realized after someone else had bid that the item was damaged. He wanted to remove it but couldn't, so he asked me to bid really high so I'd win and then he just paid the ebay fees. We didn't leave each other feedback.
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| Posted 1/19/06 3:42 PM |
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hazeleyes33
LIF Adult
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Ginger
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Re: Have you ever or would you ever...
My dh does it all the time for his mom.
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| Posted 1/19/06 4:15 PM |
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BabyBoy
is Skylar Elizabeth
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Tom
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Re: Have you ever or would you ever...
shill bidding is against TOS of ebay....
link to TOS
Message edited 1/19/2006 4:17:46 PM.
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| Posted 1/19/06 4:16 PM |
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Ellie
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Re: Have you ever or would you ever...
you have FM
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| Posted 1/19/06 5:30 PM |
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