Does this look like shill bidding

tonsofcommons · Dec 14, 2012

hey, does this look like shill bidding to anyone else?

Winning bidder on this auction:

Item number 350663454861 (keeps showing up as item removed and can't find it in searches).

99% of the auctions this person bids on are this seller's.

Sucks cuz I really wanted the card.

nicktv08 · Dec 14, 2012

Link says listing has been removed..

tonsofcommons · Dec 14, 2012

Yeah, you have to search by the item number.

Sjrmn91 · Dec 14, 2012

This one, Eddie? Item Title: DAVID NEILL /11 $150 NEVADA ROOKIE GAME USED FOOTBALL RC 2002 02 PRIVATE STOCK

tonsofcommons · Dec 14, 2012

Yeah, thanks. The link was kicking my butt.

Just aggravated.

I already one a card that I needed from the seller and I have 1 more that I can't pass up. But I don't want to give this ***** any of my money!

Sjrmn91 · Dec 14, 2012

I've never had any personal experience with him, but I know that the seller's name has come up before (on multiple occasions, one even recently) with accusations of shill bidding.

Junior Griffey · Dec 14, 2012

Before I even clicked on the link I knew it was Bigboyd. He absolutely shills. I watched it happen on a Michigan 1/1 auction I was planning to bid on a few weeks ago. The shilling account had the winning bid at $41 with about a minute left after bidding up by $1 increments, and then retracted their last bid so they were the underbidder at $39. There have been many other instances where his auctions have had some strange bidding practices near the end. Big thread on Blowout about it too.

Lancemountain · Dec 14, 2012

700+ bids all with the same seller at 100% of bids and eBay doesn't do anything..........

trizzo22 · Dec 14, 2012

I've won 2 seperate auctions of BigBoyd. After 2 weeks and nothing in the mail, I contact them and Both times he has a lame A%# excuse about being item was listed twice, blah blah blah. He refunds money and thats it. Then I keep an eye on his auctions and what do you know, items show back up. Guessin he was not happy about winning bid. They are shady IMHO.

cartersprings · Dec 14, 2012

Mike Fournier said:
I've won 2 seperate auctions of BigBoyd. After 2 weeks and nothing in the mail, I contact them and Both times he has a lame A%# excuse about being item was listed twice, blah blah blah. He refunds money and thats it. Then I keep an eye on his auctions and what do you know, items show back up. Guessin he was not happy about winning bid. They are shady IMHO.

I've had the same thing happen. Relisted the next day for a higher opening bid. They're as shady as they come.

James52411 · Dec 14, 2012

Sounds like you had A View to a Shill.

nicktv08 · Dec 14, 2012

Wait but so many people on Blowout say that he does not shill!! It must be true! He doesn't shill!!

Lol yea right. This guy obviously shills his auctions. However he has a lot of people saying his auctions arent shilled over on blowout forums when i was on that site. eBay will never do anything about it because he is bringing in some serious coin for them.

I find it hard to believe that his "loyal customers" are willing to pay double what the card goes for just because he is selling the card. I've contacted him before and he swears on everything he doesn't shill and that he has just built up a loyal customer base that are willing to overspend on his auctions.

A_Pharis · Dec 14, 2012

nicktv08 said:
Wait but so many people on Blowout say that he does not shill!! It must be true! He doesn't shill!!

Lol yea right. This guy obviously shills his auctions. However he has a lot of people saying his auctions arent shilled over on blowout forums when i was on that site. eBay will never do anything about it because he is bringing in some serious coin for them.

I find it hard to believe that his "loyal customers" are willing to pay double what the card goes for just because he is selling the card. I've contacted him before and he swears on everything he doesn't shill and that he has just built up a loyal customer base that are willing to overspend on his auctions.

Find me anyone who believes that. Tell them I have prime beachfront property for sale - cheap.

I'm not saying he's a PROVEN shiller, but there are plenty of examples as to how he COULD be.
(1) Relisting items frequently purchased by 100% activity bidders [with 500+ bids in 30 days]
(2) High activity bidders with high number of bid retractions.
(3) If he has customers that are so loyal that they ONLY buy from him - don't you think it'd net him more money selling to them off of eBay? No fees. Loyal customers so no chance of beign ripped off... seems like a no-brainer.
(4) The... well... the obvious shilling.

Junior Griffey · Dec 14, 2012

Your 4th point was the clincher for me. Where there's smoke, there's fire.

A_Pharis said:
Find me anyone who believes that. Tell them I have prime beachfront property for sale - cheap.

I'm not saying he's a PROVEN shiller, but there are plenty of examples as to how he COULD be.
(1) Relisting items frequently purchased by 100% activity bidders [with 500+ bids in 30 days]
(2) High activity bidders with high number of bid retractions.
(3) If he has customers that are so loyal that they ONLY buy from him - don't you think it'd net him more money selling to them off of eBay? No fees. Loyal customers so no chance of beign ripped off... seems like a no-brainer.
(4) The... well... the obvious shilling.

VandyDan · Dec 14, 2012

I sometimes track auctions of things I have to see what the current selling value. Sometimes, I get really excited because the card ended higher than expected. Then, I see it is a bigboyd card. and i am not excited anymore.

I find the 'loyal customer' thing a touch hard to believe. Does anyone search by seller, other than the secret guy you know who is bad at listing cards? Plus, it isn't like there is some huge variance in customer service on ebay. Toploader, bubble mailer and dc. Not exactly much room to go 'above and beyond'.

I avoid his auctions altogether.

MansGame · Dec 14, 2012

SHOCKER... a thread about shilling and when I go to the auction, it's freaking BigBoyd! This thread will be 100+ posts easy before the end of the day and will end when BigBoyd logs on and starts defending himself AGAIN...

As someone already pointed out... over 750 bids in the LAST 30 DAYS and 100% of the bids are with BigBoyd! LOL!!!!!

Yes, this is by definition, a SHILL

tonsofcommons · Dec 14, 2012

And it's really aggravating because I bought multiple cards from him and probably got shilled on the others.

and with only 11 copies, and a friend of mine already has 1, this will be a card I will probably never see again.

Oh well. I'm done buying from this XXXXing XXXXbag and hope other people will follow in my footsteps.

predatorkj · Dec 14, 2012

Sorry Eddie. This hobby is full of ********!

PadresFan86 · Dec 26, 2012

He strikes again! This time on a card I had on my watch list. What a sorry piece of crap.

Tony Gwynn 99 $25 Quad Giants Game Jersey Patch SP 2007 07 UD Legendary Cuts | eBay

MansGame · Dec 27, 2012

PadresFan86 said:
He strikes again! This time on a card I had on my watch list. What a sorry piece of crap.

Tony Gwynn 99 $25 Quad Giants Game Jersey Patch SP 2007 07 UD Legendary Cuts | eBay

HAHA!! Yup!

He is getting smarter though... he use to bid even values over and over again like $4.00... $4.50... $5.00... etc.

Now he is just entering in random bids... still SHILL

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