Posts Made By: Bill Lee

I have a user, David Cotterell (doublestargeezer), who PMed me accusing me of rigging an auction. What do I do?

PMed messages
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One more thing. Your winning bid occurred at the same time as my last three bids. around 7:30 pm EST last night.... Go look at the bidding history.

But you were not on line at the time.

So how did you win the auction at all? I placed three bids while you were not on line, no other bids were placed until the deadline the following morning and you won the auction.

I hope you can see this through my eyes. Something is wrong here...

Dave
---- Original Message ----
Sent: 2/7/2016 3:59 PM
From: William Lee
To: David Cotterell
Subject: Re: Bidding is rigged

> I don't know; I wasn't online at the time. I would say Herb's software is to blame, but I have no administrative access to this website, so I can't tell.
>
> But when you accuse me of being dishonest and cheating, that's I take exception and classify you as being an "asshole". If you want to run to Herb and whine, go right ahead. But that would be defamation.
>
> I will share this thread with the community.
>
> ---- Original Message ----
> Sent: 2/7/2016 3:32 PM
> From: David Cotterell
> To: William Lee
> Subject: Re: Bidding is rigged
>
> > Settle down, Sparky. Can you explain how your bids topped mine with 0 seconds delay? The bidding history shows your bid and mine occurring at the same second.... No one can type four digits and a dollar sign that fast.
> >
> > I'll be talking to Herb on Monday and this email exchange will be shared with him.
> >
> > cIao.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > ---- Original Message ----
> > Sent: 2/7/2016 4:19 AM
> > From: William Lee
> > To: David Cotterell
> > Subject: Re: Bidding is rigged
> >
> > >
> > > You need to calm down and stop being an asshole. I'm not using a fucking bot, so stop accusing me of having one.
> > >
> > > Do speak to your fucking mother with that mouth?
> > > ---- Original Message ----
> > > Sent: 2/6/2016 4:36 PM
> > > From: David Cotterell
> > > To: William Lee
> > > Subject: Bidding is rigged
> > >
> > > > Bidding on the Worley paper. Every time I place a bid it tells me you have outbid me by a small amount. There is zero timelag which means you have some sort of bot automatically outbidding me.
> > > >
> > > > I call bullshit. And I'm contacting Herb about it.
> > > >
> > > > You can have the paper.
> > > >
> > > > Dave C.
> > > >
> > > >

Go to "My Account". Under the first section "General", select "Display settings". Under "Classifieds", you'll see "Display the following columns in the classified list:" with a bunch of check boxes, select "Price", and any other you'd like. Then, at the bottom of the page, click on "Save" to save your changes.

BTW, I'm not a big fan of the new format. I think it's because of the size of the font. It used to be smaller. Perhaps some control over that? Being a web developer for 25 years (yes, back when it was new! and improved! with more whitening power! ), I realize how much work goes into these things, so it's not a big deal for me.