michaelab
desafinado
Well, the 7 day auction thing is really just so people see it's there, kind of like an auction house catalogue / preview. I wonder if eBay thought that it would end up like this. I presume they thought that auctions would run much more like traditional auctions when they first set it up.
IMO eBay should spend massively more resources on preventing fraud - both the serious stuff like scams and the less less serious stuff like shill bidding, getting friends to bid, "bogus" sales (where your friend "wins" the auction) etc. etc. In many ways this less serious stuff is more damaging becuase it's harder to spot and much more prevalent.
Michael.
IMO eBay should spend massively more resources on preventing fraud - both the serious stuff like scams and the less less serious stuff like shill bidding, getting friends to bid, "bogus" sales (where your friend "wins" the auction) etc. etc. In many ways this less serious stuff is more damaging becuase it's harder to spot and much more prevalent.
Michael.