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Originally Posted by SwiftDeath
While I agree you couldn't prove it 100% you could see where the bid data came from so for instance if ebay collected data on our bid behavior which I'm sure they do they could see where on the Internet out bids are coming from and the sniping behavior
When you aggregate the data across individuals, if quite a few snipers all use the same IP address (or range) to bid you could red flag that as a sniping service and block it
That being said I doubt ebay Germany does that as they like money 
So their policy is certainly in place to discourage the practice rather than actually stop it |
That's true enough and eBay does employ some pretty powerful algorithms to monitor for repeated strange behaviours such as repeated cancellations, ended items, 'I haven't received my item yet' reports. I'm quite interested sometimes what they do pick up when you consider the daily activity on any single site...