Ebay buyers beware.

[jackalope]

Hello all just wanted to throw a warning out there for any members who may try to bid on items from a seller LIBERTY STORE. They put up a GREAT starting bid price however when you try to buy from them they themselves snipe you.

I recently placed a bid of $30.00 on a used German half track, the minimum bid was for $23.32. I was outbid by a sniper, no big deal those things happen AND I can buy it now for $10 more then then they wanted and the buy it now one is brand new still in the box unlike the one they were selling with scratches and a broken machine gun.

I checked and the buyer has bought from them ONLY, no other sellers in his purchase history only LIBERTY STORE and he has never placed more then 1 bid so all he does is snipe them. I find it very difficult to believe that this is coincidence seeing how this persons purchase history goes back over 40 sales all to LIBERTY STORE in the past 6 months.

So unless I'm WAY off base here I'm no longer going to try to purchase from them BECAUSE unless the items price is driven up to where they like it they snipe you themselves.

Unless any of you think I'm wrong here that is?

BTW their Ebay store name is Libertystore, they sell all sorts of crap on the eBay valet thing.

[PainlessWolf]

Jack,
Sounds like credible or just plain weird evidence of badness. Thanks for the heads up on this.
regards,
Painless

[jackalope]

Glad to help.

Now I just need to figure which one to get. The one for $38.99 from China that costs $38.00 to ship and will take 2 weeks or the one from Massachusetts thats $69.95 with $12.00 priority shipping and will take 4 days to get here.

[tomhugill]

Isn't all that information private on eBay (user names only show two letters which aren't actually real) and has been for some time? Intrested in how you can tell which buyer it is and even more their purchase history? Not doubting you just intrested, would be useful to know for my ebaying!

[jackalope]

Isn't all that information private on eBay (user names only show two letters which aren't actually real) and has been for some time? Intrested in how you can tell which buyer it is and even more their purchase history? Not doubting you just intrested, would be useful to know for my ebaying!

Go to where it says who won and click on their name (2 letters or whatever they have) and it takes you to a screen showing you all of that persons purchases for the past 6 months. (Maybe more maybe less depending on how many things they bought I guess) Then you can see how many times that person bought from the seller and how many bids they placed on the items they bought.

[tomhugill]

I've done that but it only ever says seller 1 or seller 2 etc no actual details

[MichaelC]

I've done that but it only ever says seller 1 or seller 2 etc no actual details

Their real eBay ID is protected but you can check bid history to find out. What jack says is a classic case of seller not wanting to put in a reserve price which no one likes, but then at the last minute bid their minimum (if they didn't get it on open bids) just to pull it back or sell it at the minimum price they want. This eBay guy is not even very good at it since he just use the same dummy ID to do it.

The more sophisticated one would either use a different eBay ID that has more history, or find another buddy that has a more diverse track record to do the "sniping" (Didn't know that's what its called).

Bad eBay seller for sure, and not even very good at being bad.

MichaelC.

[jackalope]

Thanks Michael guess I wasn't doing a good job describing what I meant.

[wibblywobbly]

You could always report them to Ebay, it's against the rules to bid on your own items to push the price up. They are very good about that sort of thing, and can track who the buyers/sellers/bidders are internally. I had a problem years ago with someone, Ebay rang me and told me that although they couldn't reveal how they did it, they had all sorts of tools available to them to nail the crooks.

[jackalope]

I've reported what I suspect but what may come who knows. I know eBay doesn't play with this sort of thing but who knows.