Because it’s an actual website…
I’m afraid to click it. My spider-sense tells me nothing good will come out of it…/
It’s safe…
If you follow his channel/regular posts…he’s just as critical about books he feels don’t deliver as he’s excited about one’s that have potential.
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That seller is a shill. thecomicshopspotetc He buys books from Midtown a week before release…and tries to fake high sales…
He did the same thing with HR 9 1:25 & other books…
Here’s another shill…
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That seller has a score of 1. Lol. Doesn’t ebay have a program that blocks bids from the same ip address as the seller?
Yeah. That’s the guy. TheComicShopPotEtc.
How can what he does make any money?. Does he just cancel the sale so it “looks” like it’s legit?
Should be “TheComicShop(I’mSmoking)PotEtc”…
He was doing a lot of this with Spider-Man 7 too.
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I think it shows up as a sale regardless if money is exchanged. He probably wouldnt even need to cancel
He has ‘another one’ listed already
I’m sure that’s true, The advantage he has is he shows the comics and any 1st appearances there may be, so I do pay attention to his recommendations…sometimes
But if he doesn’t cancel, then he’s paying eBay fees for his shill sale. There’s no way his shilling pumps books up enough that it makes up for that.
Then there’s the eventual 1099s reporting these earnings to the IRS.
Trying to manage all that alone to make a measly few $$ just seems exhausting…
They don’t pull their fees till payment is made. He could just accept an offer from himself or set the listing to not require immediate payment
So how many times can the same two shill accounts sell and let payment expire before a flag gets raised?
I’m sure eBay has algorithms which scan/look for this type of behavior/transactions. Even if he’s creating multiple shill accounts for buyers there has to be a limit before eBay catches on.
Trying to get around the system to exploit loop holes seems like a lot of leg work for little gain…
I don’t believe the program works unless it’s an auction
As long as the shill buyer account requests a cancel there is no negative on your account for canceling
So one shill buyer can “fake win” an infinite number of auctions from one shill seller, and request they all be canceled and as long as the seller doesn’t call attention to it eBay doesn’t even know?
Seems like huge flaw in their integrity to me if that’s true.
It’s eBay, it is full of flaws!
Seriously though, it is an issue.
But why
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