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Shill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A shill is an associate of a person selling goods or services or a political group, who pretends no association to the seller/group and assumes the air of an enthusiastic customer. The intention of ...
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Shill Bidding: How Scumbag Bidders Rob Honest Sellers Like You Shill bidding deal is a 21st century version of a confidence game. The purpose of shill bidding is to buy merchandise at an artificially low price which can then be resold for a... ... Shill bidding deal is a 21st century version of a confidence game.
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In a separate civil case, Robert Baranovich and his son, Steven Baranovich, of West Babylon, agreed to pay $10,000 in penalties and restitution to consumers harmed by their shill bidding.
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I want to make you all aware of something that occurs frequently on the E-Bay auction called "shill bidding". It is where a seller uses alias userID's (non-existant bidders) to push up the bids on their auction items.
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When we brought Cohen's case study to the company's attention, it acknowledged this was a clear case of shill bidding. What's unclear is how readily eBay can detect this sort of thing - and whether the company is doing all it can do to discourage it.
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Giant auction site eBay is being sued for allegedly using "shill" bidding against its own customers to force up prices and increase the fees it's able to charge.
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Shill Bidding: What it means on eBay ... Definition: Shill bidding is the act of bidding on your own auction against other bidders in order to raise the price at which your item will eventually sell. It is a violation of both eBay rules and federal law.
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