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Why am I speshul?
02GF74 - 25/11/09 at 08:25 AM

ebay have sent me 10% off voucher (max discount £ 70!) due to outage on sat 21 Nov.

Anyone else got one?


fesycresy - 25/11/09 at 08:34 AM

I had one, but the item I wanted to buy ended the day after


r1_pete - 25/11/09 at 09:16 AM

Yes I got one, had a £900 item ending during the eBay farce, if I cancel the sale the buyer gets ione too....


02GF74 - 25/11/09 at 09:25 AM

ok, i am trying to figure out what is the reasonebay are doing this - I may have had some items I was bidding/watching ending during that time and/or tried to log on during that time (had nothing listed for selling).

seems to be a nice gesture.


Liam - 25/11/09 at 12:10 PM

I'm more speshul than you! I grassed up a horrendously blatant shill bidder and they thanked me and gave me a speshul phone number I can ring for speshul technical support. I'm not allowed to tell anybody the speshul phone number.


stevec - 25/11/09 at 02:49 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Liam
I'm more speshul than you! I grassed up a horrendously blatant shill bidder and they thanked me and gave me a speshul phone number I can ring for speshul technical support. I'm not allowed to tell anybody the speshul phone number.


Why were you buying Shill's?


James - 25/11/09 at 03:04 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Liam
Iblatant shill bidder


Shill bidder?


cd.thomson - 25/11/09 at 03:10 PM

someone who bids up (or gets a friend to bid up) their own auction so it finishes at a higher price.

Advantages: if you or your friend wins then you've not lost out on anything, just relist.

your shill bidding my dupe someone else into a bidding war, and they end up paying more than they would have done if you werent involved

Disadvantages: its ILLEGAL.


ReMan - 25/11/09 at 06:59 PM

quote:
Originally posted by cd.thomson
someone who bids up (or gets a friend to bid up) their own auction so it finishes at a higher price.

Advantages: if you or your friend wins then you've not lost out on anything, just relist.

your shill bidding my dupe someone else into a bidding war, and they end up paying more than they would have done if you werent involved

Disadvantages: its ILLEGAL.

But very common. Always check out the (now very limited) bidders info , this gives some away