Shill buying on GB

[Cubiclerevolt]

Not going to lie.

A bit pissed here.

Found an item I was watching and made a couple of bids with a couple of days remaining, no one else challenged the price until someone with ZERO buying history decides to get into a bidding war with less than 4 minutes left on the bid. Too bad for them you can't just snipe shit like ebay.

We keep ping ponging for about 5-10 bucks at a time. Then I got tired of it where I could find the same thing 60 bucks cheaper and Im like "I'm done" not before I wait until there is less than a minute left and I bid on the item again to force the faggot shill to sit there for another 15 minutes to see if I was going to bid again.

I will gaurangoddamntee you I will see the same item BACK up there after the person "mysteriously" welches on the deal as the seller has been complaining this has been happening lately.

TL;DR?

f*** shills and fake accounts and f*** GB for wasting my time.

 

[Elk34]

Sometimes it's the owner posing or a friend of his driving the price up. I've seen it before and I lost a item just to see it reposted.

 

[Cubiclerevolt]

Sometimes it's the owner posing or a friend of his driving the price up. I've seen it before and I lost a item just to see it reposted.

Yup.

The same exact thing happened with two items being sold by the same seller. Im half tempted to go back and report that shit but then I honestly just don't want to deal with that seller.

Both items I was bidding, same item and coincidentally both buyers are NR's who enact a bidding war with no time in?

Yeah right.

 

[Cubiclerevolt]

Sometimes it's the owner posing or a friend of his driving the price up. I've seen it before and I lost a item just to see it reposted.

Like why not put a "BUY NOW" price which could be 20-30% markup of the MSRP to weed out shill shit like that?

Wasted a considerable amount of time.

 

[Elk34]

Yup and all it does is get your blood pressure boiling. Next time sit there and wait for the very last 5 sec make your offer and he has no time to respond

 

[Cubiclerevolt]

Yup and all it does is get your blood pressure boiling. Next time sit there and wait for the very last 5 sec make your offer and he has no time to respond

+1

True true.

Like I said I was willing to pay a decent amount and go above MSRP because I actually wanted it.

I'll just stick to buy now and forget the games.

 

[AZ Husker]

Very common in all auctions from cars to farm equipment.

 

[Maestro]

That is why I prefer buying and selling from this community. I've had a couple guys try to hit me up after somebody else got in first but they took the refusal well.

 

[knockonit]

can't remember which one, but seems to me they posted a 15 min last min extention on last bid, giving the owner time to up it again, yeah, they are rigged, and if you don't believe it, head on down to yuma and get some colorado river water, or even better ocean front property
Rj

 

[Cubiclerevolt]

can't remember which one, but seems to me they posted a 15 min last min extention on last bid, giving the owner time to up it again, yeah, they are rigged, and if you don't believe it, head on down to yuma and get some colorado river water, or even better ocean front property
Rj

It's gunbroker who does that. That's exactly what kept happening.

haha true true.

 

[Cubiclerevolt]

That is why I prefer buying and selling from this community. I've had a couple guys try to hit me up after somebody else got in first but they took the refusal well.

Yeah one of these days that magical door will open up for me lol.

 

[Cubiclerevolt]

LOL and right on queue as I suspected, the item is RE-LISTED. WOW.

 

[AZ_Five56]

I've bought a few items there over the years, but most of that was done about 15 years ago. Maybe the problem wasn't as bad then.

When I'm bidding in any auction, I always wait until the end of the auction to bid, and I place my highest bid the first time and walk away. There's a lot of emotion involved with auctions, and people tend to get carried away to the point of spending far too much as they continue to bid on an item that they are now emotionally invested in.

 

[dustmaker]

Auction sites should never be taken that seriously.

1. check out the item and figure out what your max price your willing to pay.
2. Place bid for your max price and then relax. You don't need the DRAMA (or do you).
3. If you get it great if the price goes over your maximum ...did you want it that badly?
4. Only do purchases when the seller does a buy it now. Now your not wasting your time and dealing with the drama.

dusty

 

[Ballistic Therapy]

When someone puts an item on gunbroker they have to pay a fee to gunbroker when the item ends.
Wouldn't it get kind of expensive after awhile to keep bidding up your own items if you end up being the highest bidder ?

 

[Cubiclerevolt]

When someone puts an item on gunbroker they have to pay a fee to gunbroker when the item ends.
Wouldn't it get kind of expensive after awhile to keep bidding up your own items if you end up being the highest bidder ?

Not if you tell them you have a non paying bidder with a no feedback rating.

 

[Cubiclerevolt]

Auction sites should never be taken that seriously.

1. check out the item and figure out what your max price your willing to pay.
2. Place bid for your max price and then relax. You don't need the DRAMA (or do you).
3. If you get it great if the price goes over your maximum ...did you want it that badly?
4. Only do purchases when the seller does a buy it now. Now your not wasting your time and dealing with the drama.

dusty

I agree with all of these. Both times I was outbid by 5 bucks. that's why I was salty. If it was a serious owner then I wouldn't have.

But screw the seller who doesn't make "Buy it now" available.

 

[Cubiclerevolt]

There's a lot of emotion involved with auctions, and people tend to get carried away to the point of spending far too much as they continue to bid on an item that they are now emotionally invested in.

Yup. This is very true.

 

[Ballistic Therapy]

When someone puts an item on gunbroker they have to pay a fee to gunbroker when the item ends.
Wouldn't it get kind of expensive after awhile to keep bidding up your own items if you end up being the highest bidder ?

Not if you tell them you have a non paying bidder with a no feedback rating.

You need to make an account in order to bid or sell.
To make an account you need an email address and a credit card.
How many email addresses and credit cards do these guys have to be able to do it time after time ?

 

[Cubiclerevolt]

When someone puts an item on gunbroker they have to pay a fee to gunbroker when the item ends.
Wouldn't it get kind of expensive after awhile to keep bidding up your own items if you end up being the highest bidder ?

Not if you tell them you have a non paying bidder with a no feedback rating.

You need to make an account in order to bid or sell.
To make an account you need an email address and a credit card.
How many email addresses and credit cards do these guys have to be able to do it time after time ?

Beats the hell out of me but I am telling you that this was very fishy where the one person stayed on the same item and kept bidding just enough to reset. When they could have easily jumped over to the other sellers item he was bidding and bid on that one.