Re: One-Cent Auctions
- From: kram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:17:43 -0700
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 00:55:38 -0600, "twobirds" <notareal@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>kram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> There seems to be a sub-species of sellers who run auctions
>> simply to supply positive feedback to fellow scammers.
>>
>> Fer instance: http://tinyurl.com/doamt
>
>It may happen, but you are wrong in this case and apparently having trouble
>understanding what you are looking at.
You are right - I meant to use another seller (whom I have since
misplaced) who was seemingly engaging in selling nothing but One-Cent
auctions - it was not my intention to cast aspersions upon the seller
in the above link.
>>
>> Click on Purchases and note how many buyers are now
>> NARU. Click on the buyers feedback and see how many
>> have gotten feedback from similar One-Cent auctions.
>
>They are very likely all the same person. All of those NARU IDs are
>probably the same Chinaman.
>
>>
>> This type of scammer buys up a goodly amount of feedback
>> to make them appear legit, then perpitrates a fraudulent
>> auction.
>
>This may be true, but if you look at feedback received on all of those NARU
>IDs, you won't find any negs. If a bunch of people got scammed, you would
>certainly think someone would have neg'd.
How can you neg someone after they are NARU?
> Furthermore, you just said what
>you should have said to begin with. Someone up to no good can easily find
>loads of auctions to win cheap to build feedback quickly. That in no way
>means that the seller on this particular auction (the one you linked to) is
>in any way involved with that buyer.
Yeah, again - I did not mean to implicate the seller to whom I
inadvertant linked.
>You could open a new user ID and then you could go spend a 20 dollar bill on
>e-books and gmail accounts and have yourself at least your blue star by
>Wednesday. You are blaming that possibility on sellers? In this particular
>case, the seller is using their 1 cent auctions to try to bring in page
>views to their store and maybe even perhaps to generate their own inflated
>feedback rating. A lot of people do things like that. That doesn't mean
>that they have any thing at all to do with the NARUs you see.
>
>
><sniped the rant about the software>
>
Keep an eye on the software auctions I mentioned:
http://tinyurl.com/dk79h
- time and time again the only feedback the seller will have is from
One-Cent auctions. It smells very fishy to me.
.
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