Hi, I auctioned off 10 items and 6 of them were bid on by fake accounts | Sell

1pantoffeltierchen1 · 2025-03-25T12:35:08.600000Z

I don't believe what's going on here anymore. A lot of buyers think the sellers used bots to drive up the price, but that's not the case with me. I wouldn't even know how. Every time, at the very last second, the highest bid is placed by a bidder who had never appeared before and always only signed up on eBay on that same day. I don't believe it. There are no answers to follow-up questions and the phone numbers are fake, they don't exist at all. The addresses are definitely not the real bidders either. On eBay you can report buyers, but there are only 3 options and there isn't an option for bots or joke bidders, or scammers, and eBay doesn't accept it anyway. I can't report it. There used to be an option that wouldn't let bidders with under 5 feedback points bid, but that's no longer possible either. I wonder how they register without certification, just a name and address from Buxtehude and a fake phone number that doesn't exist, and that's it. Let the fun begin. These aren't normal joke bidders anymore. There's a system behind it. The nasty thing is that as the seller, you end up being suspected of driving up bids yourself, which is not the case at all. I have no idea what's going on there. You can't really auction anything anymore with the chances that it's a real buyer. Can anyone make sense of what's going on here? I've heard the same thing from other well-known sellers too. The same game. Signed up on day 1, zero feedback, and the highest bid, nothing before that. I don't understand it anymore. What are they doing and what do they want? Do you know this too?

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