Bidding rings are most commonly found in auctions in which each bidder knows the identity of other bidders. Such public auctions increase the chance that a bidding ring will form. Bidding rings agree to bid against only the bidders that are not part of the ring. Such behavior weakens competiti...
The instant concern is people gaming auctions by setting up two bidders for the auction. These two bidders quickly bid up the price, and when the top bidder doesn’t pay, the second bidder gets the domain for whatever price he would have paid had the top bidder not bid in the auction. ...
One of the most common complaints from new eBay bidders is that they get outbid with frustrating speed and consistency. More cautious new users are often convinced that eBay is full of shill bidding, but in actuality, it's very common to be outbid on eBay, and even to be outbid quickly,...
Shill bidding is a technique that's used to artificially inflate the cost of an item being sold at auction so that the seller...