*UPDATE* Someone should start a Class Action Suit against these Fraudsters!
This is my opinion for what it is worth!
I see the 2 ways they shill bid against the customer as it is obvious they are protecting their item and the cost they want for it by shill bidding.
1... Has anyone told them Shill Bidding is a Crime and Punishable by Law?
2.. They will protect the cost of their item from lower bids, no matter what.
3.. Why start at a 1.00? Start at the price you want, and keep it legal
Disceptive Practices &someone should start a Class Action law Suit against them I would certainly join one.
4... Your auctions are rigged. I can prove it. I watched you remove 2 bids 3mins before the close of an auction cause your shiller bidder screw up
5... Ebay has Feedback, Forums and keeps the auctions won for ALL to see for 90days. At least the giants of auctioning are at least HONEST! Maybe some sellers are not— by comparison to bidz by business practices —ebay are on top of things and genuine—You guys are deceptive in all of your business.
How do they do the shilling? This is my theory...
They do it 2 ways manually and auto. Maybe more!
... And there is 2 ways to bid!
They may use an auto bid system (set up in Luthuania, I heard).. Which will kick in their funny misspelled senseless addy names they use—then when the price they want is reached from their auto bid —they are gone&they then let the customers still bidding battle it out. This method is great for the bidding process everyone just want to keep on going to get that eye candy—and they will, the auto shiller keeps them from selling too low (comparative to eBays reserve system).
Manually..*BEWARE* just in 1hour—I saw this happen twice, and again I am not watching EVERY auction on Bidz —there are thousands&and hey Bidz. I HAVE A COPY of the History.
The bidder is going on his merry way bidding 1.00 at a time. Towards the close or higher price they have determined they want for the item—the shiller then manually puts the bid in— for instance 50 in the box instead of just hitting bid which could be going at a dollar, three or five, the unsuspecting customer expecting it to be going at a dollar then auto clicks bid and he gets the item with the 50 increase written in by the shiller, in my case today it was a 1,000 increase. The shiller battling with me wrote in 1000... I didnt see that, as I was busy bidding up my dollar and clicked. I won of course, at 1250 (normally sells for between 230-280). I went to live chat they gave me some lame answer. My fault they said! The other bidder can write the bid amount in and SET the amount you are just about to click on. Moral: watch the Bid amount change as well as the dollar amount of the item.
I saw another shiller write in 650 for an unsuspecting customer... And he clicked just like me, he won and like me must have said what just happened The unsuspecting customer was at 147.. The shiller put 503 the customer then clicked he won for 650. So, Manually they will put in larger amounts at the near end. Most times the customer is actually bidding against the auto shiller or a manual shiller. Not every item is auto shilled or manual shilled mainly the higher priced items. So sometimes a customer might get lucky I guess. All higher priced items are pretty much protected this way.
I am amazed that regular Bidz customers havnt noticed this pattern... And yes BIDZ your stupid little shiller names are a dead giveaway.
And Yes I have saw this happen often and regular and I have copies of some of your bogus rigged auctions and shill bidding.
Watch this site, watch for shilling, don't be a victim, you just may be bidding against them and not Joe Smith in another State!
As far as this company goes and my opinion of them, I think they may be a Chinese Company here in the States with all items made in China. Yes... Even the brand names! Most brand named companies have factories there now.
Bidz in my opinion may have all Chinese goods and run their business unamerican (no wonder recent toys have been recalled, from large companies the large companies are in China now—darn everything is made in China wake up America, China has found a way to be #1 in the World Market thru goods, not WPD. Wake up America China owns us now.
LM
I will tell you if you ask!
U.S.A.
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