[Groop] Groop Regarding EBAY and auctions

Ryan Simmons ryan.gsimmons at gmail.com
Tue Oct 9 12:25:04 PDT 2007


*Buyers cannot:*

   - Commit to purchasing an item (either by winning the item or buying
   an item in a Buy It Now listing) without paying. To understand the
   penalties, please refer to the Unpaid Item
Policy<http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/unpaid-item.html>.

   - Bid with no serious intention of buying. Most of the items on eBay
   are auction-like listings and each bid is a binding contract. Certain eBay
   online auctions involve non-binding
bids<http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/non-binding-bid.html>(for
example, some real estate auctions). However, these non-binding bids
   represent a buyer's serious expression of interest in buying the seller's
   item, and insincere bidding is not permitted.
   - Misuse the bid
retraction<http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/invalid-bid-retraction.html>option
to manipulate the bidding process.
   - Bid on or buy an item when they do not meet the seller's terms as
   outlined in the item listing, or bid or buy with the intention of disrupting
   a listing. This is known as unwelcome and malicious
buying<http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/unwelcome-buying.html>.

   - Engage in shill
bidding<http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/seller-shill-bidding.html>to
artificially increase an item's price or apparent desirability.
Bidders
   on an item must be wholly independent from the seller of that item.

Looks like it's fine to agree on who will bid on an item if two people know
each other in some way.

On 10/9/07, MacQuarrie at Earthlink <macquarrie at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Check to make sure that you aren't violating any eBay terms of use. They
> could ban your account and then you wouldn't be able to bid at all.
>
>
> On 10/9/07 12:00 PM, "groop-request at groo.com" <groop-request at groo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > It is the seller's objective to get as much money as possible for an
> > item.  It is the buyer's objective to get an item for as little as
> > possible.  The seller doesn't "deserve" anything.  Auctions
> > artificially inflate the price of items in the first place. In many
> > cases they make it appear that there is less supply of an item than
> > there really is.  Collaborative bidding sounds like a good idea from a
> > group perspective.
>
>
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