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There's actually method behind the madness.

Offer a nonsense thing for a Buy-it-Now $0.01 in a quantity of, say 500. Get a couple of friends to spend $5.00 between them (you can always buy them lunch later) and buy your auction out, one item at a time. Now, have the same friends file positive feedback for the stuff. Presto! Your feedback rating has gone from 0 to 500 in no time at all.

See, for example:

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d ... =-1&de=off

One of the immutable laws of the universe:

If there's a system, someone will figure out how to game it.

Chuck(G) wrote:There's actually method behind the madness.
See, for example:

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d ... =-1&de=off

One of the reasons to actually check the feeback, not just the rating or numbers. Noticed that one "buyer" keft feedback for the same auction 24 time, with the same exact text. Ant then that auction is not visible, so you don't know what was "bought" 2 days ago. If you check on those who left "feedback" , they appear to be scam artist too.

ThomasDodd wrote:One of the reasons to actually check the feeback, not just the rating or numbers. Noticed that one "buyer" keft feedback for the same auction 24 time, with the same exact text. Ant then that auction is not visible, so you don't know what was "bought" 2 days ago. If you check on those who left "feedback" , they appear to be scam artist too.

Another interesting discovery is that if an auction is pulled by eBay, the feedback left by buyers stays around.