eBay Facilitated Shill Bidding Auction Fraud: Case Study #5

[PhilipCohen]

If you try to buy anything at auction on eBay, take great care ...

Shill bidding fraud by professional sellers on eBay nominal-start auctions is demonstrably endemic; bidders who bid early and often on such auctions will most likely be sellers' shills, and eBay Inc. is - also demonstrably - the greatest knowing and calculated facilitator of such massive fraud on consumers that the world is ever likely to know and, doubtless, there will be a trickle down effect of like criminal activity to other eBay operations ...

The ugly reality of eBay Inc.:
eBay's crooked auctions marketplace (Case Study #5) ... http://bit.ly/11F2eas
(This is the principal document, a lengthy dissertation on, and demonstration of, eBay’s calculated facilitation of shill bidding auction fraud on consumers. Put aside an evening to peruse this matter effectively.)
eBay Motors (UK): Auction Fraud Galore ... http://bit.ly/I2gTEU
eBay's clunky, unscrupulous "PreyPal" ... http://bit.ly/UVXx53
The ongoing joke of eBay Inc. ... http://bit.ly/YvxFEg
And for your further entertainment some quotes from the eBay executive suite ... http://bit.ly/12xvzyA

The only thing that surprises me about this utterly unscrupulous corporation is that it has not yet summoned up the gall to further obscure the endemic shill bidding fraud by converting its auctions wholly to its devious, seller-selected, "private listing" format, or by changing bidding IDs to "Bidder 1", "Bidder 2", "Bidder 3", etc, as they initially were going to do/did when Donahoe first introduced the additional layer of anonymity for (shill) bidders in 2008, nor - surprisingly - have they yet ceased to publish the details of "completed" listings, a post-sale analysis of which, with some effort, can clearly demonstrate this endemic fraud and eBay's calculated facilitation thereof ...

And what does the "smart money" on Wall Street think about eBay? Well, in August 2007, when the "Pain From Bain", Johnny Ho, was already effectively in control of eBay, the share prices of both eBay and Amazon were ~$40; today, eBay is ~$53; Amazon is ~$400. Clearly, Wall Street considers eBay to be a "dog", and Johnny Ho to be a very poor dog handler ... Now, seriously, what more can be said, other than ...

eBay / PayPal / Donahoe: Dead Men Walking ...

One also has to wonder if Pierre Omidyar has ever thought about just how much more fabulously wealthy he would now have been had he, before Johnny Ho took control, traded his eBay stock in for Amazon stock, or had he not ok'd the handing over of the control of eBay to this delusional, destructive, incompetent, unscrupulous, narcissistic sociopath?

[PhilipCohen]

Re: eBay Facilitated Shill Bidding Auction Fraud: Case Study #5

Obviously, the previous comment is from an eBay shill, most probably operating from an IP address that would be traceable back to the eBay Dept of Spin; we can reasonably assume that because of the atrocious command of the English language and the utter lack of any sign of intelligence contained in the response ... so, what's new?

[teaboy2]

Re: eBay Facilitated Shill Bidding Auction Fraud: Case Study #5

Obviously, the previous comment is from an eBay shill, most probably operating from an IP address that would be traceable back to the eBay Dept of Spin; we can reasonably assume that because of the atrocious command of the English language and the utter lack of any sign of intelligence contained in the response ... so, what's new?

Or it could just be a post made by a SpamBot - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spambot

My Money is on the SpamBot!

[PhilipCohen]

Re: eBay Facilitated Shill Bidding Auction Fraud: Case Study #5

If it was indeed meaningful spam then I would agree it could be a SpamBot, but this is not even spam, it is meaningless gibberish, which is what we have come to expect any response from eBay will contain ... No, I suspect it is more likely the work of a very poorly paid eBay shill operating out of a very small cubicle in the eBay Dept of Spin ...

[teaboy2]

Re: eBay Facilitated Shill Bidding Auction Fraud: Case Study #5

If it was indeed meaningful spam then I would agree it could be a SpamBot, but this is not even spam, it is meaningless gibberish, which is what we have come to expect any response from eBay will contain ... No, I suspect it is more likely the work of a very poorly paid eBay shill operating out of a very small cubicle in the eBay Dept of Spin ...

Its a SpamBot. We see the same or similar post every morning multiple times each day. Its easy to script a SpamBot to post messages like the one above or any message you like, even if it is gibberish.