Question About An Ebay Listing That Doesn't Add Up

Might not be so sinister. Sometimes buyers back out, it happens.

Good spadework.

definitely being shill bidded.. The winning bidder (e***n) of the previous auction for the same coin is again bidding on this one. Exact same coin exact same shill bidder....

ebay does not police themselves anymore.
It is up to other bidders to report sellers
who list counterfeit coins or shillbidders to them.

Personally I dislike shillbidders more than those who sell counterfeit coins because they know what they are doing whereas fake coin sellers often do not.

I have reported shillbidders in the past with good results
and suggest you do the same with this seller.

silverwolf-
"For sure" you can report shillbidders.
I have done so on numerous occasions in the past.

Sometimes it takes more than one report or more
than one person, but it can be done.

Yup




Nope


ebay makes money off listings and sales.

Since you aren't paying the fees, you are the product.

The don't give a rat's fuzzy posterior about you, nor about the sellers.

If a shill bidder buys it, the seller will still have to pay the final value fee, unless the shill backs out. How many backouts can a shill account have before it is banned? Not sure I get how this shilling is supposed to work for anybody.

I've wondered this myself. Seems like it would get expensive to shill bid fairly quickly. Of course they can always say the winner cancelled and close it out but I'd think ebay would catch on if you did this on a regular basis.

By the way, I pretty sure some of the auction houses shill a good amount of the coins on their site. I know of one that does it for sure (as in they told me they did). That auction house generally shills coins up to around 70% of what they feel the coins was worth. One the one hand that doesn't seem like such a big deal, but on the other hand that means you're never likely to catch something that's a great bargain that may have "slipped through the cracks".