The longer you use eBay, the more likely you'll see some bidding abuses. If you see another eBay bidder abusing the service, you should report it to eBay. Here’s a list of bidding abuses that eBay wants to know about:
Bid shielding: Two users work in tandem. User A, with the help of accomplices, intentionally bids an unreasonably high amount and then retracts the bid in the closing moments of the auction — leaving a lower bid (which the offender or an accomplice places) as the winning bid.
Bid siphoning: Users send e-mail to bidders of a current auction to offer the same merchandise for a lower price elsewhere.
Auction interference: Users warn other bidders through e-mail to stay clear of a seller during a current auction, presumably to decrease the number of bids and keep the prices low.
Bid manipulation (or invalid bid retraction): A user bids a ridiculously high amount, raising the next highest bidder to the maximum bid. The manipulator then retracts the bid and rebids slightly over the previous high bidder’s maximum.
Unpaid item (nonpaying bidder): No matter how eBay chooses to couch it by fancy verbiage, these bidders are deadbeats. The bottom line is that these people win auctions but never pay.
Unwelcome bidder: A user bids on a specific seller’s auction despite the seller’s warning that he or she won’t accept that user’s bid (as in the case of not selling internationally and receiving international bids). This practice is impolite and obnoxious. If you want to ban specific bidders from your auctions, you can exclude them in your My eBay area links.
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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