[rescue] Stumbled on this pdp8/m? on ebay...

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Monday 28 May 2007 21:34, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:
> > Lionel Peterson wrote:
> >> His listing concerns me - his title is bad, the description is
> >> non-existant, and he seems to *revel* in the fact that everything
> >> is sold as-is, with no warranty. But the final thing that gets me,
> >> and this alone could break the deal for me, is he claims 900,000
> >> positive feedbacks, yet eBay shows 200,000+, and he has a 90%
> >> positive approval - that means 20,000+ folks felt "burned" or
> >> unhappy with their transaction (assuming any "no response" is left
> >> out of the calculation)...
> >
> > For anyone following this one (and this is the third time I've
> > participated in 'this'
> > auction), I've now seen the last two times won by the same bidder
> > (whypaymore$).
> >
> > I'm 99.9% positive this is shill bidding in action.
> >
> > But unless the seller is claiming the high bidder never paid, then
> > each time he
> > shills and loses, his profit is going to go down.
> >
> > Does this smell like a shill to everyone else here too ?
> >
> > This seller is fishy...
> >
> > He can list it several hundred times if he wants... but if he thinks
> > I'm going to push
> > my bid up and up till I find the limits of his shill, he's going to
> > lose his shirt on this
> > item... because as previously discussed, this could likely be an
> > empty unit... devoid
> > of cards...
>
> If you're certain it's a shill (which seems likely based on the
> evidence), file an eBay complaint, it's a ToS violation.

If you do a search based on bidder user ID, almost everything he's 
(whypaymore$) bid on in the past 30 days is from this 'bargainland' 
seller.  And he has absolutely no feedback from bargainland.  I smell a 
rat here..

Pat
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