posted on April 7, 2002 10:36:00 PM new
About a month ago this bidder found my items. This newly registered bidder bid and won about 100 items in 3 days and had around 100 more high bids including 10 of my items. Not to my surprise, the bidder was NARU by ebay even though they were getting lots of positive feedback very fast.
The day after that bidder was NARU, another just regustered bidder bid on all the same items. My the end of the day they registered they were NARU.
Now that clothing is up again, I have an item with a bid that is almost double retail price. I look to see the high bidder is NARU (but do to ebay problems today still shows as high bidder and shows NARU). However, the next in line bidder is just registered! I am only guessing that it is the same person. I don't know when the bidder became NARU - I did not even receive a cancelled bid notice.
Since this bidder gets NARU as soon as ebay finds them out, I see no sense in blocking them. BUT geez, they bid so high no one will ever out bid them.
posted on April 7, 2002 10:57:52 PM new
There is strange stuff going on. One seller that I found last night when I was doing a search for some items had 9 pages of really good antiques and collectibles. Today I looked at some that I had bookmarked and they were all invalid auctions.
Now he is NARU with two auctions still running and one has bids.
posted on April 8, 2002 12:07:32 AM new
If your mystery bidder wins, contact the runner-up immediately and try to strike a deal. You can contact the runners-up directly using Make A Personal Offer. Also, I believe you can set a minimum feedback rating that is allowed to bid in your auctions. That's kind of extreme but maybe necessary until the problem blows over.
A while back a whacko tried to sabotage my auctions by jacking up the bids and then not paying. Eventually I pointed out to him that I was selling to the underbidders at very inflated prices thanks to him. He went away after that.
posted on April 8, 2002 12:22:54 AM new
I have many many newby bidders. Very few are a problem.
This bidder is something else. Last month between the 2 different names I received an email from an unknown person with linkd to a website that had all kinds of legal stuff and list of names the person used etc. It was really strange.
I rarely look at what bidders bid on but I did on this one, I even emailed them before the auction was over and before the first name was NARU because of the extremely high bid. I wanted to make sure this bidder knew what they were bidding on.
This lastest NARU name and the new name bid on the exact same items as the past extremely high bidder did.
What I do not like is that the NARU bidder is STILL showing as the high bidder on 2 of my items. With the high bid being so extremely high (double retail) no one will even look at the item and bid. They may look because who would bid that much on that item.
One of the auctions close on Monday evening, I have emailed ebay hoping they will fix the problem of the NARU bidder showing as the high bidder and I expect that by morning the new name (second high bidder) will be NARU.
