“Starting March 30, eBay will allow sellers to list their first 100 auctions for free if they start at less than $1”
Unless an honest seller is prepared to risk letting their item of any value go for 99c, why would they want to do that? Of course, the 99c-start auction is no problem for the many unscrupulous professional sellers that now infest eBay, they simply put to work their 20-30 shill bidding IDs to ensure that they get the price that they want. Of course, eBay would not know anything about that.
Not much they wouldn’t. Why else you think that they introduced non-unique, non-trackable, anonymous bidding aliases, other that to deliberately aid and abet these unscrupulous shill-bidding sellers by further obscuring their activity? And why would eBay do that, you say? For the higher FVF.
eBay is a criminal organization. It’s as simple as that.
From a buyer’s point of view, the full ugly story of shill bidding fraud on eBay, and the proof of eBay’s criminality, at
http://www.auctionbytes.com/fo...wtopic.php?p=6502877
It is about time that some competent authority shone a bright light under this slimy rock.