PWCC suspended from eBay

[quincy]

And given that eBay has recently seen fit to junkpunt the sellers en masse once again...

I mean who can blame them, chasing that sweet, sweet sneaker money....

 

[subban7677]

Snipe bid the max price you're willing to pay and you never have to worry about being shilled.

You are still affected. It could cause you to pay more than you might have otherwise. If I put a max bid of $100, and it's shiiiled up to $90, when I could have had it for $70, you are affected. They essentially stole $20 from you.

Edit: Never mind, I misread what you said. Sniping is a great defense against shills, yes. If everyone is doing it. Otherwise it is still artificially inflated come snipe time.

 

[subban7677]

eBay could have stopped this or at least slowed it down by collecting the winning bids from people automatically when they win an auction. Shill bidders might have thought twice about bidding stuff up if they stood a chance of having to pay right away.

But how would they do that? Unless you are sitting at your keyboard or phone when it ends you can't pay right away. Ebay doesn't have permission to go into a buyer's account to collect the money. If you want payment right away you have to do BIN with immediate payment required. I see no way they can make that work on auctions.

 

[Triple B]

But how would they do that? Unless you are sitting at your keyboard or phone when it ends you can't pay right away. Ebay doesn't have permission to go into a buyer's account to collect the money. If you want payment right away you have to do BIN with immediate payment required. I see no way they can make that work on auctions.

They could do it like all real auction houses do it. Have you preregister and have you payment is automatically taken from your credit card. eBay is a lazy auction site, plain and simple. They’re making millions after millions and have minimal enforcement of anything. People with multiple accounts, a half-assed feedback program, buyer protection that makes their seller protection look non-existent. On and on.

 

[frankiefives]

But how would they do that? Unless you are sitting at your keyboard or phone when it ends you can't pay right away. Ebay doesn't have permission to go into a buyer's account to collect the money. If you want payment right away you have to do BIN with immediate payment required. I see no way they can make that work on auctions.

That's the whole point. Make every buyer REGISTER just like sellers do. When you register, you give the auction house (in this case eBay) access to your payment method. As soon as the auction ends, the money is taken from the payment source you've give them access to.

 

[quincy]

That's the whole point. Make every buyer REGISTER just like sellers do. When you register, you give the auction house (in this case eBay) access to your payment method. As soon as the auction ends, the money is taken from the payment source you've give them access to.

Oh come now. You're talking as though you expect eBay to treat their sellers as their primary customers. That's CRAZY talk. :crazy:

 

[subban7677]

Perhaps ebay would be willing (although unlikely) to put some sort of pre-registry system in place for auctions deemed to be high end, but those would be rare. Ninety-nine percent of auctions shouldn't qualify because people would avoid them.

 

[slev]

This likely has little to do with shilling, or PWCC migrating to their own software. I'd bet everything I own this is related to the FBI investigation, (which IS related to shill bidding). This looks and feels like a large corp de-risking.

If you have cards in the Vault you need to seriously consider potential fall out from all of this.

Seems like the most pragmatic view, surprised people seem to have forgotten about the big PWCC scandal in 2019.