On your own eBay auction is punishable offer
It sounds perfect: The current bid is quite low, so why not bid and drive the prospective higher bids? This is not, however, a minor offense - this is a criminal offence to:
- The Terms and conditions of eBay to prohibit sellers at the auction by an additional user account to bid. Also friends should not be urged to drive up the price in the height.
- The eBay security team does not check individual auctions, if there is a suspicion of users will be reported and carries out its own samples.
- Can be found with an illegal Offer (for example, because of the same IP-address) will be warned eBay users, and locks in case of recurrence the user's account.
- Affected buyers can make a criminal complaint for fraud. Court rulings like that of the higher regional court of Frankfurt am Main, Germany (AZ 12U51-13) from 27.06.2014 to show that high fines of up to a multi-year prison sentence, the consequence may be. the maximum penalty for fraud is five years in prison.
ebay: To your own auction offer
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