If you’re on eBay long enough, you’re bound to find an abuse of the service. It may happen on an auction you’re bidding on, or it may be one of the sellers who compete with your auctions. Be a good community member and be on the lookout for the following:
Shill bidding: A seller uses multiple user IDs to bid, or has accomplices place bids, to boost the price of his or her auction items. eBay investigators look for six telltale signs, including a single bidder putting in a really high bid, a bidder with really low feedback but a really high number of bids on items, a bidder with low feedback who has been an eBay member for a while but who’s never won an auction, or excessive bids between two users.
Auction interception: An unscrupulous user, pretending to be the actual seller, contacts the winner to set up terms of payment and shipping in an effort to make off with the buyer’s payment. This violation can be easily avoided by paying with PayPal directly through the eBay site.
Fee avoidance: A user reports a lower-than-actual final price or illegally submits a Final Value Fee credit.
Bid manipulation: A user, with the help of accomplices, enters dozens of phony bids to make the auction appear to have a lot of bidding action. Let the experts at eBay decide on this one; but you may wonder if loads of bids come in rapid succession but the price moves very little.
If you suspect someone of abusing eBay’s rules and regulations, go to the Security Center (the link is at the bottom of every eBay page) and click Report a Problem on the Security & Resolution Center main page. You are presented with a form in which you can click the appropriate link for your issue.
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