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I was doing my usual eBay browse and found this item

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Parker-75-Perle-in-Gol...1QQcmdZViewItem

 

Thought to myself the listing style looked a little familiar (still burned about my Pearl Centennial that never was).

 

This is a 1 feedback seller.

 

Lo and behold who the one feedback was from - have a look folks.

 

One of the shill bidding accounts I presume

 

 

Sic Transit Gloria

 

"Gloria gets seasick"

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You are likely right about it being same person, different account. I have seen the same background before. He/she must have several accounts. I checked and find that this person has 4 items up for bids at this time, all Parker 75's. I invite any Parker 75 experts to examine this Item number: 150297584335

 

I think this item has too many feathers on the arrow clip for a flat top version (as opposed to the dimple version) AND I find it curious that there do not appear to be any imprints around the bottom of the cap.

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time. TS Eliot

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what's the background here?

 

If you placed a bid on her item, some bidder with no purchase record would bit against you until your top bid was revealed, then if the mystery bidder won the bid, she would cancel that bid on some excuse and offer the item to you at your top bid price. The person who bid against you often had a history of bidding and even winning several items but had no rating and no record of having actually paid for anything. I hope I have characterized the way she works accurately, at least that has been my observation of what has happened on several auctions that I tracked.

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And the end of all our exploring

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And know the place for the first time. TS Eliot

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what's the background here?

 

If you placed a bid on her item, some bidder with no purchase record would bit against you until your top bid was revealed, then if the mystery bidder won the bid, she would cancel that bid on some excuse and offer the item to you at your top bid price. The person who bid against you often had a history of bidding and even winning several items but had no rating and no record of having actually paid for anything. I hope I have characterized the way she works accurately, at least that has been my observation of what has happened on several auctions that I tracked.

 

Thanks for that!

 

A bit clever I must admit but devious and dirty at the same time.

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She was reported and after a long time, she was removed as a registered bidder and all the bids on items she had for sale were cancelled. It appears that this is one of her other accounts, but there is no way to be certain yet.

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time. TS Eliot

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She was reported and after a long time, she was removed as a registered bidder and all the bids on items she had for sale were cancelled. It appears that this is one of her other accounts, but there is no way to be certain yet.

I paid her after about 4 listings, bids, second chance offers etc for a Pearl and Black Mkl Duofold a couple of weeks ago.

I got a garbled email as to the fact that I was to pay someone else and she would credit me. thought - no paypal protection so i refused and reported.

She said she would send me the item eventually, but then a week later paypal refunded me on their own and she vanished.

Said goodbye to a lot of feedback. Some I checked and she was left good feedback from a couple of non existent transactions and some of the stuff she sent out was good and some was suspect.

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Sic Transit Gloria

 

"Gloria gets seasick"

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I was doing my usual eBay browse and found this item

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Parker-75-Perle-in-Gol...1QQcmdZViewItem

 

Thought to myself the listing style looked a little familiar (still burned about my Pearl Centennial that never was).

 

This is a 1 feedback seller.

 

Lo and behold who the one feedback was from - have a look folks.

 

One of the shill bidding accounts I presume

 

I saw it yesterday, and those were my thoughts as well.

 

Edit to say that this was supposed to be in the other thread, but I somehow switched to the wrong thread.

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