Belt Auction

I have just found out that i was shill bidding on ebay and my account is suspended for 14 days why plz help?

thankyou and plz can you explain what this means: You are limited to using only a Fixed Price format (e.g. Buy It Now) when listing items. This restriction will last for a minimum of 14 days and will be lifted automatically once this period is over. In addition, all buying and selling activity on your account has been restricted until you complete a brief online tutorial designed to help you better understand our policy on Shill Bidding. You'll be asked to take the tutorial the next time you sign in to your eBay account. Once you've completed it, you can begin buying and selling again immediately.

Public Comments

1. It means you were bidding on your own item to drive the price up. You must have 2 ebay acounts?Or a friend/family member bid on it.
2. Shills, or "potted plants", are sometimes employed in auctions. Driving prices up with phony bids, they seek to provoke a bidding war among other participants. Often they are told by the seller precisely how high to bid, as the seller actually pays the price (to himself, of course) if the item does not sell, losing only the auction fees. Shilling has a substantially higher rate of occurrence in online auctions, where any user with multiple accounts (and IP addresses) can shill without aid of participants. Many online auction sites employ sophisticated (and usually secret) methods to detect collusion, and a number of people have been sent to jail for online auction fraud in the past decade.