I am Austindude

There is just too much old junk in my closets and garage gathering dust, so I am trying to clear it all out via EBay. Well, I noticed on both auctions I had going that “new users” with 0 feedback had bid multiple times on my stuff. I also noticed I had 3 messages from different EBay members. I checked my messages and all 3 of them were from people who were thinking about bidding on the equipment, but did not because they said what I was doing was wrong and unethical! They thought I’d created a brand new account (hence the new user status icon and 0 feedback), to bid on my own auction to pump the price up. But I didn’t! It was somebody else who set up a new account to get my goods at a much cheaper price.    

 

I figured out how this benefits the bidder with the new user status. The user with the new user status, causes other legitimate potential-buyers to not bid or stop bidding, thus winning the auction at a fire sale price and screwing the seller. I mean, it’s a fact that when I am looking for something and thinking about bidding on an auction, if I notice a bunch of bids from a new user with 0 feedback on the item, I won’t bid because I assume that it’s the seller with a dummy account pumping it up. BASTARDS. Luckily, there were a couple of people who still bid, despite seeing the new user/0 feedback guy as the current winner.