Is eBay cleaning house? Shocking amount of NARU's in the last month

ebaytrader · November 27, 2006 10:31PM

I heard of a rumored coin shill ring a few years ago that was huge.

I was just trolling around Elmobay and looking at feedback. Check out all the NARU'ed buyers from this seller since mid-October. Maybe a shill ring? Go back a few pages. It's an astounding amount and the auction pages have been wiped clean too.

Do you think this problem is continuing on the coin front? On Elmobay? How about the auction houses? Do you think they max out your bids with phantom book bids?

kranky · November 27, 2006 10:43PM

I would think anyone who accumulates 12 feedbacks per hour over a two-week period should attract some attention.

thebeav · November 27, 2006 10:53PM

That really is wild. I can't imagine what was going on.
He appears to be a buyer also in many cases.......Could be a network.....

Michigan · November 27, 2006 10:55PM

<< <i>That really is wild. I can't imagine what was going on.
He appears to be a buyer also in many cases.......Could be a network..... >>

It certainly looks suspicious.

Rodius · November 27, 2006 10:57PM

It looks like he was trying to up his numbers, 4004 at 100%. Oddly enough all the auctions of the 10 of the pages are the same #'s. I then looked at one of the buyers and they have just as strange things going on. All of the auction won by "cellularphones2u4less" is purchasing items that are .01. Some thing strange is going on in Ebay. I think it is uping the feedback to appear to be a better seller.

Swampboy · November 27, 2006 11:54PM

Thanks ebaytrader.
They weren't very creative with the feedback praise. I hate! shills on ebay!!

19Lyds · November 28, 2006 1:36AM

Something is very fishy with this one since the item number is the same for all the auctions.

Kaelasdad · November 28, 2006 2:20AM

I just bought a case of ASE's off of an Ebay seller, he had a feedback of 13. I paid him, he shipped, and before the case got to me he was NARU'd. The case got here fine, and i wanted to give positive feedback, but because he is NARU, I cant, and he cant. But no problems at all from my prospective. And it was a BIN, so no shilling involved. Odd.

Russ

sinin1 · November 28, 2006 3:01AM

this guy is selling around the world, including eBay Germany - maybe bill was not paid

reminds me of seeing a bluemoon offer on eBay England a couple of days ago

flaminio · November 28, 2006 3:05AM

<< <i>Something is very fishy with this one since the item number is the same for all the auctions.

>>

Fishy in this case, but not in the general case. When you have multiples of an item to sell, you can list them all in a single auction. Doesn't happen much with coins, as all coins are unique, but for cheap commodity items it's common.

So many NARUs in this case clearly points to something screwy, tho'...

Conder101 · November 28, 2006 3:39AM

<< <i>I just bought a case of ASE's off of an Ebay seller, he had a feedback of 13. I paid him, he shipped, and before the case got to me he was NARU'd. The case got here fine, and i wanted to give positive feedback, but because he is NARU, I cant, and he cant. But no problems at all from my prospective. And it was a BIN, so no shilling involved. Odd. >>

If you have a new seller and he suddenly list a bunch of expensive items and starts getting paid a bunch of money, eBay will sometimes temperarily suspend them (naru them) until they can confirm he is legitimite, then they reinstate them. I do believe they did it to a few of our regulars here. It always seems that they suspend the people who turn out to be good and let the ones who turn out to be major scammers run free. (On the other hand they might do a big deal, get suspended and "checked out", and THEN start running their scams.)

Bochiman · November 28, 2006 4:35AM

If you get a seller who has a lot of $0.01 items "won" that don't seem to make sense, and especially if many of the "winners" are low feedback, then you may likely (most likely) have someone pumping up their feedback for some reason...usually a ring of people or using a "buy the SURE WAY to increase your feedback quickly" they bought from someone.

It's been out there for a bit.

Russ · November 28, 2006 4:50AM

Yep, a setup for the big kill that would have come later.

Russ, NCNE

WoodenJefferson · November 28, 2006 4:53AM

Positive feedback scheme

This seller is selling e-wallpaper for .01 then will give you positive feedback for the .01, I do not think it is generated from the US by the verbage used.

Quote:

Good news! I got excelent wallpaper for you! Just 1 cent. No hiden fee's. Freee shipping, free handling. Will left POSITIVE after you. Happy bidding.

(this link was contained in OP link)

edit: don't Chinese like tigers?

Swampboy · November 28, 2006 4:58AM

I wish I could just batch load all those buyers he sold feedback to into my blocked bidders and blacklisted sellers list.

bushmaster8 · November 28, 2006 4:59AM

I'm sure this is just a case of the seller passing his notebook-puter around at the local coffeee shop.

Strictly verbotten!

Is eBay cleaning house? Shocking amount of NARU's in the last month

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