Karl R.

The house rules state that Team Play (2 accounts working together to run off other bidders) is strictly forbidden. As they do this they keep increasing levels and receive free bids. They exchange their wins for free bids. They can then use these free bids to pull the scam again and again and again. I watched this happen over and over again. I noticed one user who was obviously doing this had won an automobile after placing hundreds of thousands of (free?) bids on one auction.
I have to wonder how many people are scammed out of paid-for bids by a person who has a million free bids to use?
The site says they use sophisticated software, monitoring systems and safety protection measures to detect bidders who are not complying with this policy.
I don't know how sophisticated it can be. I spent an hour looking at recently won auctions and found dozens of probable Team Play. I can only see the last 80 seconds of bidding and see the same thing (and sometimes the same bidders) winning with the same pattern:
3 people using BidBuddy, one finally gives up and then another drops out seconds later producing a winner.