Sunday, November 22, 2009 - Ebays latest scam to duck the Shill Bidding Issue - "1 Click Bid"

Morning all,

I've just added the below paragraph to my OP at

http://www.auctionbytes.com/forum/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=6502877

It may be of interest to eBay watchers:

Yet another example of the unscrupulousness of eBay

An exposure by eBuster.co.uk of those sellers trafficking in feedback—a matter that eBay cannot but be aware of, but does nothing about. Even more interesting than the actual list of sellers are the sellers’ linked Feedback Profiles, in which are listed the people buying such feedback. Fortunately, eBay has not (yet) given such “buyers” the opportunity to hide behind a “masked alias” so one can easily check to see if these buyers are professional sellers and what sort of activity is taking place on their auctions. You may also note that much of this dealing in feedback is done via “private listings” supposedly to protect the buyer, which would appear to be pointless as, although the resulting feedback does not disclose what was bought or the value thereof, the buyer is clearly identified as dealing with such sellers. Surely, a little too much transparency here for eBay's liking?

http://www.ebuster.co.uk/SellingFeedBack/AllSellingFeedback.aspx

Regards
Philip Cohen

A sneak peek at 1 click bid

Posted by Subha on July 13, 2007 at 02:34 PM in General | Permalink

1 click bid is for all those people who have always wanted an easier way to win an item in the last few precious minutes before an auction ends (yours truly included!). Hi Everyone!  My name is Subha and I'm excited to be the newest blogger on The Chatter! 

Very soon, you'll be able to use 1 click bid in the last 15 minutes of an auction to re-bid with one click only (how fast and easy is that!). You don't have to keep refreshing the page in your browser and bite your nails as the page loads to see if you're still the high bidder. Instead you'll see a little layer appear on the item page displaying the information you need to plot your bidding moves in the last few minutes -- how much time before the auction ends, what's the current high bid, and most importantly, are you still the high bidder? Instead of refreshing the entire page, you'll just need to refresh the smaller layer. Much faster, and more convenient.

Take a look at the picture alongside to see what I mean. (Note - we're still tweaking the design so it may not look exactly like this when we launch. But you get the picture....).

One more thing. To use 1 click bid, you'll need to be signed in to eBay and have at least one bid on the item already.

Last month, at eBay Live!, Bill Cobb announced that we're working on a number of new ways to make bidding more exciting and convenient. This is just one of several projects that we have in the works for you. I’ll be back from time to time to give you updates and sneak peeks at other cool features.

We're planning to start testing 1 click bid in early August for a small percentage of members, and hope to have it available for everyone by the end of August. If you happen to be in the test group, I would love to hear what you think – just send me an email at sneakpeek@ebay.com.

I shared some plans with the Chatter team when they interviewed me recently (see the video they shot).