Shopgoodwill.com has workers bidding, to inflate the auction prices. They will consistently bid $1 less than the participating bidder's max bid amount, which isn't displayed until bidding is over...
When the participating bidder enters a bid, the Shopgoodwill.com worker knows the participating bidder's highest bid, and will enter $1 less than the participating bidder's highest bid, right before bidding closes.
For example, if the auction begins at $5, and the participating bidder enters a max bid of $100, the Shopgoodwill.com worker will enter $99 at the last moment, driving the price from $5, if no one else bids, to the participating bidder's max bid of $100!
You can go through past auctions and look at Complete Bid History, and see that Shopgoodwill.com is very consistent with this Shill Bidding Scam...
And it's even worse... On most auctions where people Shill Bid their items, the seller inflates the price without knowing the participating bidder's max bid amount. It obvious Shopgoodwill.com knows the participating bidder's max bid amount and bids accordingly.
Sometimes Shopgoodwill.com will bid $1 higher than the highest bidder's max bid, to try to get the highest bidder to bid a higher amount. Often the highest bidder doesn't bid again, and a few weeks later, Shopgoodwill.com, who bid the highest, will relist the item.
In the case below. The highest bidder had a max price of $699.00. They would have won the auction at $113.00, but Shopgoodwill.com entered a Shill Bid of $1 more, $700.99, driving the price from $113.00 to $700.99, hoping the highest bidder, in the final 15 seconds, would bid higher.
No one bid again, and Shopgoodwill.com n*h won the auction at $700.99... Ripping off g**h, who should have won the auction at $113.00.
Two weeks later, the item was relisted on 5/16/2016, at the same starting price of $4.99, but this time, with the reality still fresh in the past participants and watchers minds, that this item sold for $700.99, and might be worth $700.99, instead of only $113.00, which it should have sold for.
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Shopgoodwill.com has workers bidding, to inflate the auction prices. They will consistently bid $1 less than the participating bidder's max bid amount, which isn't displayed until bidding is over...
When the participating bidder enters a bid, the Shopgoodwill.com worker knows the participating bidder's highest bid, and will enter $1 less than the participating bidder's highest bid, right before bidding closes.
For example, if the auction begins at $5, and the participating bidder enters a max bid of $100, the Shopgoodwill.com worker will enter $99 at the last moment, driving the price from $5, if no one else bids, to the participating bidder's max bid of $100!
You can go through past auctions and look at Complete Bid History, and see that Shopgoodwill.com is very consistent with this Shill Bidding Scam...
And it's even worse... On most auctions where people Shill Bid their items, the seller inflates the price without knowing the participating bidder's max bid amount. It obvious Shopgoodwill.com knows the participating bidder's max bid amount and bids accordingly.
Sometimes Shopgoodwill.com will bid $1 higher than the highest bidder's max bid, to try to get the highest bidder to bid a higher amount. Often the highest bidder doesn't bid again, and a few weeks later, Shopgoodwill.com, who bid the highest, will relist the item.
In the case below. The highest bidder had a max price of $699.00. They would have won the auction at $113.00, but Shopgoodwill.com entered a Shill Bid of $1 more, $700.99, driving the price from $113.00 to $700.99, hoping the highest bidder, in the final 15 seconds, would bid higher.
No one bid again, and Shopgoodwill.com n*h won the auction at $700.99... Ripping off g**h, who should have won the auction at $113.00.
Two weeks later, the item was relisted on 5/16/2016, at the same starting price of $4.99, but this time, with the reality still fresh in the past participants and watchers minds, that this item sold for $700.99, and might be worth $700.99, instead of only $113.00, which it should have sold for.