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Originally Posted by ken0042
Bingo. eBay cracked down on what used to be called PDAs or Penny Dutch Auctions. Basically I would sell 1000 copies of a recipie for 1¢ each. Dozens of people would bid, and after exchanging feedback the seller would have a lot of feedback in a short period of time. eBay put a lot of rules into place; including tightening requirements on items to be shipped.
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Without thinking too much about it, I have often been surprised at how high some sellers feedback got after only being on eBay for a short period of time. Now I know how they did it. And because of this last week, I will be help a few of them beef up their feedback. But it is for stuff I want. Today, I just picked up a USB car adapter for less than $0.70 shipped. A side benefit, is that my feedback rating will go up too. I even found a Calgary seller that is artificially inflating his feedback rating.
The best part of the plastic spoon listing is the ridiculous English throughout the posting. I have a few emails this week that have similar style. They are trying so hard in the emails, encouraging me to give them good feedback.
I have been careful in the past about buying larger items from reputable sellers. I will be even more careful now, since feedback percentages can be so easily faked. I usually use
this tool, which quickly highlights all of the bad & neutral stuff.