mysterious ebay buyer

flexo786 · 29 Oct 2008 at 01:16

hi
damaged my phone a couple of weeks ago so have been looking for phones on ebay.now whenever i see a buy it now at a good price that has just been listed most of the time it gets taken by someone called *vender*. now i did a search on goofbay of his bid history and over the last 30 days hes spent around £5000 on buy it now phones with most of them being good deals. was wondering does any one know how this is possible as surely he doesnt spend all day on the computer clicking refresh on the buy it now mobiles page.

http://www.goofbay.com/ebay_bid_his...30&gbl_submit=&gbl_submit.x=14&gbl_submit.y=2

Strife212 · 29 Oct 2008 at 01:17

Obviously he re-sells them as a business

flexo786 · 29 Oct 2008 at 01:19

Strife212 said:
Obviously he re-sells them as a business

i know that but was wondering how is it possible that he always buys the cheap deals within a couple of minutes of them being listed

BlackAle · 29 Oct 2008 at 01:39

Maybe he's using a program/script to automate it, or at least alert him.

Conrad11 · 29 Oct 2008 at 01:42

BlackAle said:
Maybe he's using a program/script to automate it, or at least alert him.

Greenlizard0 · 29 Oct 2008 at 01:53

What is goofbay and how does it work? I've just tried searching for my own username and it doesn't appear.

Begbie · 29 Oct 2008 at 01:57

Don't know but he is getting some bargians.

jamoor · 29 Oct 2008 at 02:29

There is probbably some software somewhere that alerts you, or he keeps pressing refresh

flexo786 · 29 Oct 2008 at 10:18

Greenlizard0 said:
What is goofbay and how does it work? I've just tried searching for my own username and it doesn't appear.

its a collection of ebay tools. also has a ebay sniper that is free to use one you've registered.

cpatain-chaos · 29 Oct 2008 at 10:52

script prolly

Pilky01 · 29 Oct 2008 at 10:55

Iphone for £35?

mikeossy · 29 Oct 2008 at 11:05

Thanks for the link goofbay looks pretty interesting along with the free snipe.

flexo786 · 29 Oct 2008 at 11:34

what is a script and are they hard to do?

vorm · 29 Oct 2008 at 11:47

I haven't checked them all but all the ones that i have looked at say "Auction ended early with buy it now"

Very very odd.

flexo786 · 29 Oct 2008 at 11:54

vorm said:
I haven't checked them all but all the ones that i have looked at say "Auction ended early with buy it now"

Very very odd.

theyre all buy it now that have ended within a couple of minutes of the seller listing it