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Offering items at a price higher than is considered fair or reasonable is not allowed on eBay. Sellers offering essential items must offer them at reasonable prices, and may not attempt to unreasonably profit from increased demand or decreased supply caused by emergencies or disasters. ...
Simply click the 'report an item' button on this help page or report directly from the listing:On the listing, choose the 'report item' option next to the description and shipping options.Select 'price gouging' in the Report Category field, on the file a report page.Select 'price gouging' as the reason.More items...•Sep 10, 2020
IS IT ILLEGAL? Yes, in certain circumstances. California's anti-price gouging statute, Penal Code Section 396, prohibits raising the price of many consumer goods and services by more than 10% after an emergency has been declared. Local laws may also contain their own prohibitions on price gouging.
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Go to the listing and choose Report item, which you'll find next to the description and shipping and payment options. On the File a report page, select Price gouging in the Report Category field.
“The scalper bots that bid up prices intend to get prices of a particular item up to a point where it's past the fee for eBay to make it worthwhile for the scalper,” he explained. “This is why they use their bots to take the price to sometimes 200%+ markup on MSRP.”Dec 9, 2020
If the buyer makes a complaint to eBay then eBay will send you an alert stating you have to respond to the dispute. You have to respond! You will have to have some proof. A receipt of purchase would be great proof that you could email eBay a copy.May 11, 2007
Shill bidding is when a seller uses a separate account, be it one of their own, a friend or a family members or they ask someone to bid on their auction to artificially raise the price of the auction. In this case the bids were placed and then retracted once they had reached my maximum bid level.