discuss What is with Flippa and dishonest shill bidding people!

[Dan Hawkins]

https://flippa.com/7654584-luvbat-c...iber&utm_medium=email-html&utm_source=Comment

 

[Wannabean]

It's not just flippa, it's the whole industry.

And it's not the obvious cases like this you want to be worrying about.

Still, thanks for sharing, the seller's comment gave me a laugh.

 

[baseballworld]

Greed seems to take over.

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

Good one
@FlippaDomains
Can you verify this is more bs coming from your end or a genuine sale

 

[Atta]

Selling Flippa is simply waste of money. Expensive upgrades and no serious bidder.

 

[DnFolk]

Rofl on the seller's comment.

 

[SheikhOvais]

Wow, just wow.

Times like these make me think to remove all of my domains from Flippa.

Greed at its fullest. Shame.

 

[Dan Hawkins]

Why do flippa let this continue! They should ask for actual proof of identity for every account before an account can bid to stop this happening.

 

[Wannabean]

Why do flippa let this continue! They should ask for actual proof of identity for every account before an account can bid to stop this happening.

Not realistic. The platform needs to be accessible or it's going to put off genuine bidders. They could do more but this isn't the answer.

 

[Dan Hawkins]

Can not think how they could stop it any other way that would really work. What's so bad about giving ID anyway? I think the shill bidding is more likely to put of genuine bidders than showing ID.

 

[Bram C.]

The bidding history window made me laugh as well:

Looks like Bidder 4 (with a bid of $5) is the only real bidder in that auction

 

[todaygold]

Can not think how they could stop it any other way that would really work. What's so bad about giving ID anyway? I think the shill bidding is more likely to put of genuine bidders than showing ID.

Are you serious? Maybe where you live it's not a problem, but where I am, identity theft is a very real concern. Most people where I live would not be okay sending their personal identification documents to a website. And even if people did comply, a scammer can still just photo edit an ID to make it look like it is theirs.

 

[iwon24]

1.5 mil , if only it was that easy

 

[Dan Hawkins]

Are you serious? Maybe where you live it's not a problem, but where I am, identity theft is a very real concern. Most people where I live would not be okay sending their personal identification documents to a website. And even if people did comply, a scammer can still just photo edit an ID to make it look like it is theirs.

Yeah I see what your saying' in the UK it's not a big issue and as for photo edit issue' ID should have to match the bank details or paypal used before bids can be made so the photo would not matter. either way it seems more could be done to combat this problem.

 

[campout]

I don't even see what they have to gain from doing this. What is the strategy?

 

[deez007]

Lol.....so the dude jumped to a 1.5million bid when the last bid was $7500....Yeah that seems logical, clearly this is a legit sale.

 

[LordMomo]

I don't even see what they have to gain from doing this. What is the strategy?

Well the 1.5mil bid is a bit unrealistic but the idea is that you bid it up and then as soon as a legit bid beats your top bid, you drop it on them. Thereby selling for much more than you would've gotten.
Used to do this in share trading

 

[Wannabean]

I don't even see what they have to gain from doing this. What is the strategy?

If you try and put yourself in their shoes to figure this out, I'm pretty sure all that will happen is you'll end up making the noise that tie fighters make in star wars and then your head will explode.