How the **ll does this work?

ruthie84, Aug 23, 8:40am
A vehicle listed on a $1 reserve auction, sold for $2790.00, has just been relisted @ $4150.00 starting & buy now!
hopie, Aug 23, 8:42am
easy, someone brought the car for a bargin, minimum repairs to put back on at a profit. not really rocket sicence stuff.
ruthie84, Aug 23, 8:44am
Its the same seller!
bitsy_boffin, Aug 23, 9:19am
In that case, easy, the seller is an unreputable person who decided that they didn't get enough for their car and think that they are not obligated to actually go through with the sale (or they had a friend shill-bid).
kngfhrt, Aug 23, 9:28am
whats the listing number!
ruthie84, Aug 23, 10:30am
Old # was 502807744
New # is 506681869
hopie, Aug 23, 10:34am
ask them in the Q&As
trdbzr, Aug 23, 10:43am
quite likely they had shill bidding done, and if you bring it up their response will be that the buyer pulled out, and yet no negative feedback was placed, theres lots of other dealers who regularly do this on trademe
ruthie84, Aug 23, 10:43am
yeah I have done that, just waiting now for response.
gman35, Aug 23, 11:24am
On an auction site putting $1 reserve and then "pulling it" because it hasn't reached enough is really low , and at least some sort of sign needs to go against any future $1 auction to let you know they don't have the nuts , or at least don't allow them to run another one. (obviously unless somehow mistakenly listed and is cancelled via TM within a few minutes of listing).
brapbrappy, Aug 23, 12:31pm
Watch to see if the same "bidders" push up the bidding
brapbrappy, Aug 23, 12:34pm
You will note they have no $1 reserve listings anymore so disregard #12
timmo1, Aug 23, 1:38pm
It's possible that the sale didn't go through with the top bidder.although looking at the first buyers feedback, there isnt a bad one from the seller so I doubt this was the case.
trader_84, Aug 25, 7:44am
13mins to go and 7 unanswered questions. No where near the amount of interest in this vehicle than there was last time . before he pulled it. He's a secondhand car dealer and seems trustworthy though . just bad luck this time!
kazbanz, Aug 25, 9:44am
So do something about it!
kazbanz, Aug 25, 9:50am
Folks look theres a bunch of industry specific stuff I really HATE abouttrade me.Purely mechanical stuff with how dealer adverts are done.
BUT I wholeheartedly support the way they aren't afraid to kick repeat offenders of shill biddingand fraud to touch.
--The only way they can take action is if they are told about the people concerned so they can monitor the trader
SOOO Op I'd suggest you report the listings to TM
trogedon, Aug 25, 9:52am
Exactly rather than just bringing it up here.
ema1, Aug 25, 10:36am
Have you seen the number of RED FACES this seller has in his feedback history, kind of explains things a bit I'd say.
Bet there's some shill bidding going on there, dodgy to say the least.
Trade Me needs to be advised and so does L.M.V.D.
( LICENSED MOTOR VEHICLE DEALERS. outfit.)
He needs a right royal kicking by some heavy brigade.
ema1, Aug 25, 10:38am
The feedback record kind of suggests otherwise!
3tomany, Aug 25, 11:53am
and now 507379001
aragorn2003, Aug 25, 12:36pm
I'd be staying well away from that dude . Seems to sell alot of duds
cuda.340, Aug 26, 7:31am
appears he wants everybody to stay away from him. i asked a question on his last auction which he never answered, this time i'm blacklisted. seems very very dodgy.
3tomany, Aug 26, 7:58am
just shows people should read feedback before bidding this traders feedback says it all. if last winner pulled out after viewing car i wonder how bigger peice of fertilizer it realy is
miss-shortae, Aug 26, 1:05pm
my father told me someone brought a 96 bmw off TM for $1 using the buy now. the seller was a dealer and stuffed up by putting wrong buy now price up, but in saying that, seller was decent enough to go thru with the sale.