They don't know unless someone complains about sham bidding. A friend had
that happen to him and they suspended his account for a month. Maybe they
log IP addresses and can check to see if the bid is coming from the same IP
under different account names.
On the downside, if you "sell" an item, eBay takes their cut of the sale
price when you mark the item as paid.
If I'm bidding on something that I really want, the max I'll pay goes in
within the final 5 - 10 seconds of the auction. I never bid earlier then
that which is probably true of most winning bids.
Bob
Bob Danielson
1975 TR6 CF38503U
Running w/ Throttle Body Injection,
Toyota 5 speed & Nissan LSD
http://tr6.danielsonfamily.org
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From: "John VanNorman" <jsvannorman@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 3:10 PM
To: "6-Pack" <6pack@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [6pack] Holy Triumph, batman!!
> I just don't trust eBay anymore. Does eBay have a way of knowing
> whether the sell ever happens? I'm thinking that on a number of these
> "sold" items that the seller has a friend or another eBay account and
> is driving up the prices and that a real conveyance of the item never
> occurs.
>
> John V.
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