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mini63 wrote:
not sure why this didnt sell.......except its missing the key bits....
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vortz-Downton ... 508wt_1081
Take it with a pinch of salt , both the top bidders have over 80% bidding activity with the seller ? ..... KenTupers wrote:Is anyone else digging through their centre binnacle collection after seeing this one sell? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/191592070300? ... EBIDX%3AIT
its in a grasser, I bet its had its ears well and truly pulled back in its time!In the shed wrote:
On a different note, this seems quite cheap.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1380-Mini-Eng ... 3cf9ff3bd7
its a bit of a sharp practice to advertise it as a cooper s 1071 when it isn't as well......smithyrc30 wrote:Another very optimistic vendor.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/classic-mini- ... 1279074693
Really????
Is it too hard to put the door cards in the right way up????
Yeah but it's a snip compared to this one, which looks like a reshell and has no trim!smithyrc30 wrote:Another very optimistic vendor.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/classic-mini- ... 1279074693
Cheeky sod, that was mine and I certainly don't do shenanigans!! The under bidder had about 20 bids trying to win it but ran out of time. Both were from abroad.swifty wrote:Take it with a pinch of salt , both the top bidders have over 80% bidding activity with the seller ? ..... KenTupers wrote:Is anyone else digging through their centre binnacle collection after seeing this one sell? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/191592070300? ... EBIDX%3AIT
Because of the cost of getting things shipped to South Africa, and also because many sellers won't sell to buyers outside of the UK (which I don't understand, as Steve1071 has proven) I don't buy a lot via ebay, but I am keen to find out how to spot when an item is being "shill bid" up. On this car for example, the second last bidder at 19,501 GBP has only a 16% bid history with the buyer, and again, as Steve has pointed out, even if the buyer has 100% bid history with the seller (what does 100% bid history mean?) then the bid could still be legitimate, as is possibly the case with the winner of this auction? I'll agree that the price is astronomical though!Pete wrote:Yeah but it's a snip compared to this one, which looks like a reshell and has no trim!smithyrc30 wrote:Another very optimistic vendor.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/classic-mini- ... 1279074693
http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dl ... 7675.l2565
Shilltastic!
I agree , some sellers panick ,with few bids on a good item ,so get a mate to put a bid on, to get it moving ,but don't put the high bids on at the end .most buyers now use bid scheduler as to not bid stuff up .and this often leaves the seller giving in to the how much to buy it now offer, as they are worried it might go for a pitence,. if Ebay didn't charge for reserve price it might not happen as muchmk1 wrote:Personally I don't believe that there is anywhere near as much shill bidding on ebay as a lot of people think there is.
Of course it does happen occasionally, it's bound to, but ebay is a MASSIVE Market place & with such a huge market the price of a desirable item is bound to be bid up quite legitimately.
The sort of cars & parts that most of the people on here are interested in are fairly difficult to find & are mainly sought after by "men of a certain age" who have a bit of disposable income to spend on re living their youth. This is a much more salient reason for a lot of high prices in my mind than shill bidding is.
Just my 2 penorth, other views are available.
I agree. Yes it does go on (maybe more on cars perhaps than parts??mk1 wrote:Personally I don't believe that there is anywhere near as much shill bidding on ebay as a lot of people think there is.
Of course it does happen occasionally, it's bound to, but ebay is a MASSIVE Market place & with such a huge market the price of a desirable item is bound to be bid up quite legitimately.
The sort of cars & parts that most of the people on here are interested in are fairly difficult to find & are mainly sought after by "men of a certain age" who have a bit of disposable income to spend on re living their youth. This is a much more salient reason for a lot of high prices in my mind than shill bidding is.
Just my 2 penorth, other views are available.
), but I was bidding on a set of DSN Billet Alloy bonnet hinges which retail at 40 quid or there about. I set my max bid at 20 quid as I wasn't really worried if I didn't get them, and then forgot that I had even bid. When I got the email to say I had been outbid and didn't get the item it had sold for over twice what they retail at. . That doesn't seem regular. It's fair to say that Ebay does rely on seller's being honest and not getting their own auctions ramped up, which is easy to do and isn't normally so important nor do-able in a real life auction. I do suspect that Ebay auctions are ramped up and that 2nd chance offers are regularly used let's put it that way! Maybe I'm just a cynical old git but having been ripped several times recently buying stuff online (and only online!) you do tend to get that way! You just can't beat seeing parts/cars in the flesh and doing a deal face to face even if you find the bits on Ebay to start with!Exactly what I try to dosurfblue63 wrote:By the way, if you are selling, having you items end on a Sunday at around 8 to 10pm GMT is best (beer and bidding is good for sellers). Ending stuff on a week day morning is not good . But if you are buying then it is obviously the other way round.
