Insane Ebay Auctions - Vinyl, Tapes & Merch (2012)

Avenger · Post by **Avenger** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:43 am

Khnud wrote:I think Stormspell mentioned once that your user has to have certain "powers" for ebay to react if reporting items and auctions.

Only when it comes to bootlegs. If you are a vero memeber then your copyrighted work is protected.

Khnud · Post by **Khnud** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 6:54 am

Avenger wrote:Only when it comes to bootlegs. If you are a vero memeber then your copyrighted work is protected.

Aha, this seems to mean that there is no guaranteed way of reporting shill bidding and have ebay pull the auction immediately. I still stick to my theory above, ebay knowingly allow shill bidding to inflate prices and ban the user after the auction.

GJ · Post by GJ » Wed Aug 15, 2012 11:22 am

glockose wrote:It seems to ended up have a cross over KOOL effect.
Like Dwarr and Saint V.

Most Hipsters in the USA need these in there collection even if the rest of the collection is HipHop, Disco, or New Age

I feel a cold wind blowing...

nightsblood · Post by **nightsblood** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 12:23 pm

Other websites also allow 'illegal' items on their site all the time to boost profits. Etsy is supposed to allow only hand-made/crafts items to be sold, but more and more companies are putting plastic junk made in bulk in Taiwan on the site. Etsy e-store owners have complained nonstop about this and etsy doesn't even reply to them. More sales = more $, so what does etsy care if the site is flooded with cheap crap that shouldn't be on there?

Khnud · Post by **Khnud** » Sat Aug 18, 2012 8:28 am

Bids have started to appear on the Witch record, with the usual bid retractions, at $779.

Prowler · Post by **Prowler** » Sat Aug 18, 2012 9:07 am

Did you really believe that noone would bid on it? You can be sure that even one member of this forum placed a bid or will win it. Just in case everyone here says boycott the auction, so 9 out of 10 guys will prohably do it but the 10th guy won't let the chance go to get a Witch LP at 350 $ ... haha

Khnud · Post by **Khnud** » Sat Aug 18, 2012 9:22 am

Prowler wrote:Did you really believe that noone would bid on it? You can be sure that even one member of this forum placed a bid or will win it. Just in case everyone here says boycott the auction, so 9 out of 10 guys will prohably do it but the 10th guy won't let the chance go to get a Witch LP at 350 $ ... haha

Of course I know people here will bid. However, knowing that the seller uses shill bidding, I was hoping they'd all pitch in their max bids during the last 5 second, hence not allowing time for the shill to put a bid in.

Cyrcka · Post by **Cyrcka** » Sun Aug 19, 2012 5:13 pm

woww

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WITCH-US-SALEMS ... 3cc9a9b403

lunaboy · Post by **lunaboy** » Sun Aug 19, 2012 6:23 pm

Cyrcka wrote:woww

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WITCH-US-SALEMS ... 3cc9a9b403

e***t ( private ) US $1,400.00
Aug-19-12 03:12:06 PDT

Member Id: e***t ( private ) US $900.00
Aug-19-12 02:56:40 PDT

Ha,ha.As many of you predicted.

daniel · Post by **daniel** » Sun Aug 19, 2012 6:46 pm

That's -idiotic-...

Prowler · Post by **Prowler** » Mon Aug 20, 2012 5:21 am

wasn't too wrong with my prognosis ...

nightsblood · Post by **nightsblood** » Mon Aug 20, 2012 11:38 am

Prowler wrote:wasn't too wrong with my prognosis ...

you were off by ~25%, and that's assuming the bid was real

Avenger · Post by **Avenger** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 5:03 am

Let's watch the feedback and account status in the next month or so

Professor Black · Post by **Professor Black** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 7:56 pm

http://www.ebay.com/itm/280953118142?ss ... 1558.l2649

chatzial · Post by **chatzial** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:26 pm

Professor Black wrote:http://www.ebay.com/itm/280953118142?ss ... 1558.l2649

Many times when a rare record appears at Ebay and has never shown before (or many years have passed since the last time), a second copy appears right after it.
It's a classic "OMG this sells for ....$ !!!! I might as well sell my copy."