Etopps offers professional portfolio services for the management of the sports cards it sells. Those services include a unique and required link to eBay.com for the transfer of cards between two parties. eBay is the catalyst for these transactions. eBay offers \"safe harbor\" services to protect innocent customers from wrongful shill bidding activities, but punishments from eBay are not enough. Short term suspensions by eBay do not deter those willing to shill bid and arbitrarily drive up prices on unsuspecting collectors and buyers of etopps sports cards.
Therefor we ask etopps.com to add the following to its terms and conditions, and to impose the following rule:
etopps.com will terminate the portfolio services of any individual or business caught by eBay\'s safeharbor for the act of Shill Bidding etopps sports cards. Upon termination of the portfolio service etopps.com will send to the individual all cards in any portfolio associated to the eBay username suspended. The individual will be charged the appropriate shipping and handling charges. In the future the individual will only be able to purchase cards to be shipped immediately upon being available, and not allow the individual the portfolio services offered to its legitimate etopps customers.
Such a policy will deter businesses and individuals from shill bidding on etopps cards on eBay, for once caught their ability to continue doing so is for ever ruined.
We the undersigned are customers of etopps.com. We purchase cards from etopps weekly and implore the company to protect us from the shady practice of Shill Bidding.
The feedback regarding the prevalence of shill bidding remains consistent among the collector community. I am currently researching the appropriate department at eTopps to ensure these proposals reach the individuals responsible for policy enforcement. Thank you for your continued patience as I navigate the next phase of this process.
December 19, 2002
The response to this proposal highlights how many collectors feel the current environment is unsustainable. This growing consensus demonstrates to the platform that protecting the integrity of these transactions is a priority for the community.
Reached 100 supporters
December 19, 2002
6 Comments
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Dave Sharpe
23 years ago
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SHILL BIDDERS ARE RUINING THE HOBBY. Kick them off the platform for good.
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Sarah Hudson
23 years ago
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ebay barely cares. if etopps wants to keep customers they need to handle this themselves.
K
Kevin Ramos
23 years ago
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ive been burned way to many times. fix the rules now.
J
Jason Ford
23 years ago
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A temporary ban is just a slap on the wrist. They need to lose portfolio access permanently if they get caught cheating. Make them take their cards and go.
M
Mike Brooks
23 years ago
Featured
Sick of losing auctions to these shills. About time someone did something real to stop them.
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Brian Cooper
23 years ago
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total nonsense that this is still allowed. stop protecting the cheaters
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Etopps offers professional portfolio services for the management of the sports cards it sells. Those services include a unique and required link to eBay.com for the transfer of cards between two parties. eBay is the catalyst for these transactions. eBay offers \"safe harbor\" services to protect innocent customers from wrongful shill bidding activities, but punishments from eBay are not enough. Short term suspensions by eBay do not deter those willing to shill bid and arbitrarily drive up prices on unsuspecting collectors and buyers of etopps sports cards.
Therefor we ask etopps.com to add the following to its terms and conditions, and to impose the following rule:
etopps.com will terminate the portfolio services of any individual or business caught by eBay\'s safeharbor for the act of Shill Bidding etopps sports cards. Upon termination of the portfolio service etopps.com will send to the individual all cards in any portfolio associated to the eBay username suspended. The individual will be charged the appropriate shipping and handling charges. In the future the individual will only be able to purchase cards to be shipped immediately upon being available, and not allow the individual the portfolio services offered to its legitimate etopps customers.
Such a policy will deter businesses and individuals from shill bidding on etopps cards on eBay, for once caught their ability to continue doing so is for ever ruined.
We the undersigned are customers of etopps.com. We purchase cards from etopps weekly and implore the company to protect us from the shady practice of Shill Bidding.
The feedback regarding the prevalence of shill bidding remains consistent among the collector community. I am currently researching the appropriate department at eTopps to ensure these proposals reach the individuals responsible for policy enforcement. Thank you for your continued patience as I navigate the next phase of this process.
December 19, 2002
The response to this proposal highlights how many collectors feel the current environment is unsustainable. This growing consensus demonstrates to the platform that protecting the integrity of these transactions is a priority for the community.
Reached 100 supporters
December 19, 2002
6 Comments
D
Dave Sharpe
23 years ago
Featured
SHILL BIDDERS ARE RUINING THE HOBBY. Kick them off the platform for good.
S
Sarah Hudson
23 years ago
Featured
ebay barely cares. if etopps wants to keep customers they need to handle this themselves.
K
Kevin Ramos
23 years ago
Featured
ive been burned way to many times. fix the rules now.
J
Jason Ford
23 years ago
Featured
A temporary ban is just a slap on the wrist. They need to lose portfolio access permanently if they get caught cheating. Make them take their cards and go.
M
Mike Brooks
23 years ago
Featured
Sick of losing auctions to these shills. About time someone did something real to stop them.
B
Brian Cooper
23 years ago
Featured
total nonsense that this is still allowed. stop protecting the cheaters
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SHILL BIDDERS ARE RUINING THE HOBBY. Kick them off the platform for good.