A new theory about these auctions

[Michael Bush]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MIRAFONE-5-VALV ... 43b977e476" target="_blank

I used to report these and similar auctions every time they came up. But obviously eBay doesn't care. If they did, they would find some kind of software solution that would eliminate the problem. I'm not reporting these auctions anymore. If eBay likes paying the buyer protection claims on them, they're at their liberty as far as I'm concerned.

[saxophyte]

I out bid you

[DavidB]

Gone but replaced.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MIRAFONE-5-VALV ... 3f22dd231c" target="_blank

[bigtubby]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MIRAFONE-5-VALV ... 43b977e476" target="_blank

I used to report these and similar auctions every time they came up. But obviously eBay doesn't care. If they did, they would find some kind of software solution that would eliminate the problem. I'm not reporting these auctions anymore. If eBay likes paying the buyer protection claims on them, they're at their liberty as far as I'm concerned.

Someone has figured out how to game ebay and ebay hasn't sorted it out. The real point of these is to collect email addresses: "email me before bidding rickscum@gmail.com" target="_blank" target="_blank". One would think that a company as big as ebay would have an engineering department that could deal with these but ...