Belt Auction

How do you know if someone is using bots or something to jack up the bidding on e-bay and what can you do?

It looks like a few items I'm bidding on are being bid on by computers or something of that nature. Their names are t**t and l**l stuff like that. But there's five or six different ones like that on each item. It just seems fishy to me.

Public Comments

1. eBay no longer shows bidders' full IDs, instead showing the IDs' first and last letters and representing omitted letters with asterisks. There is no way to know if a bid was placed "live" or by a bot.
2. have run into the user t88t on many occasions . mine were low bid to stsrt items concerning golf , and lacrosse jerseys and sports mem . never wins a item . but seems to bid on hard to unlosd used golf stuff . also on jerseys he starts the 99 cent bid at 25 dollars . another person wins with stars . it then shows up in another store in the same state arizona . it does make sense that he may be paid to start bids on items that would go for 5 dollars , other person wins item , other store places same item up for sale . are they paid by company for this ? you have raised a very good question . e bay has no buyer protection , they make there money from sales . have been ripped off , cancelled account after none delivery us to canada . e bay was sent prove of purchase to reclaim money . defende dishonest seller . now use wifes account for small purchases . look at items in states , not burned yet , but stay away from stores . you have raised a valid point . welll done .