posted on January 7, 2002 02:38:01 PM new
Recently I ran into an article on "Bid Bombing" somewhere. In fact, it was specifically about a sport some eBay denizens engage in. It goes something like they bid up your auctions under new ID's then become non-payers, or leave you bad unwarranted feedback, or complain to eBay about a auction you have up that is even remotely outside-the-box, because they simply don't like you. (You being someone he/she/they met in the forums.) Anyway, it goes something like that, and that such a thing would ever occur frightened me. I know I could never dream of such behaviour in a zillion years, no matter how enraged at anybody I could get.
Anyway, the funny thing is that I was recently suspended from the message board, after about a 20 hour career there (yes, I mean less than one day) because I got into a kind of fisticuffs with some jerk on a board. (He's a jerk, but the other jerks love him. ) He was cruel and perpetrated libel or slander whatever you call it and continued to bash me after I was gone. And creepily, he was so obsessed with his flaming of me he knew everything one could ever hope to find out about a person and her career on eBay. He was not suspended. I appealed to Safe Harbor twice and the section leader but of course I haven't heard anything back. What I think I deserve back is an apology, reinstatement, and that *that* jerk be locked out but that is not what I'm really here to talk about.
Since then (two weeks?), eBay suspended two of my auctions. They apparently took one off since late last night, an Ali autograph, and I can't not imagine why! I'm not at home yet to check my mail.
posted on January 8, 2002 07:01:15 AM new
I'm sure "bidbombing" happens all the time.
I've never known it to happen between two sellers posting in the same forum, however I have seen non-forum participants get nailed by forum participants or lurkers. Somebody in the forum will post a link to the auction to point out something about it - whether it's a questionable item, outrageous handling charges, or whatever. If this third-party seller does something that hits the right "hot buttons" with a somebody in a forum, the results can be anything from getting reported to Safeharbor, to bidbombing, to sending hate mail to the seller. That's one reason I always liked AW's policy to not post third-party auctions without the seller's permission first, though that's probably no longer in effect with the mods gone.
posted on January 8, 2002 07:35:45 AM new
That happened to me. I had an auction once that was discussed on this board. I added on some information about another item that was part of the set at the bottom of the auction ... those words are not accessible through a word search.
I received a notice about keyword spamming after someone pointed it out on here. The only problem is it wasn't spamming ... grrr
My best advice to you is to avoid altercations on message boards ... think a second BEFORE you type. I quite often type a reply, read it over, then delete it!
posted on January 8, 2002 07:49:02 PM new
NEVER use your real auction ID or email on ANY message center. It may be macho be it's foolish. It's not a perfect world we live in.
posted on January 8, 2002 08:24:53 PM new
Holdenrex: This was a buyer with a whopping 15 feedback.
Bidsbids (or whatever, I'll lose this if I go back): I guess I'm not from this world. Damn; but I guess I should learn. (Hm. Had the same conversation with my boss today.<s> "Need a fall guy? It's okay. I don't care." I'm not for this world!
) He was cruel and perpetrated libel or slander whatever you call it and continued to bash me after I was gone. And creepily, he was so obsessed with his flaming of me he knew everything one could ever hope to find out about a person and her career on eBay. He was not suspended. I appealed to Safe Harbor twice and the section leader but of course I haven't heard anything back. What I think I deserve back is an apology, reinstatement, and that *that* jerk be locked out but that is not what I'm really here to talk about.
I'm not for this world!