| Type of Trading Violation |
Example |
Details |
Action by Online-Auto-Auctions |
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Buying Offenses
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Interfering with a Transaction(including fee avoidance)
Non-Payment after buying a Vehicle
Unwelcome Bidding
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Contacting a member to offer/solicit an off-site purchase or warn buyers away from a seller
Buyer does not complete & pay for vehicle without a valid excuse (illness, death, computer problems, etc
Buyer is warned by Seller that their bids are not welcome for a vehicle (based on past history, etc)
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Disciplinary action from warning, temporary suspension to permanent removal of accounts depending on severity of offense.
2 Warnings are issued; Upon 3rd individual complaint, (again without valid excuse) buyer is permanently removed from the system.
Disciplinary action from warning, temporary suspension to permanent removal of accounts
depending on severity of offense.
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Buyer Offenses
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Invalid Bid Retraction
Bid Shielding
Shill Bidding
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Misuse of the bid retraction process to discover the maximum bid of the current leading bidder
Using a secondary User ID to artificially raise the level of bidding/or price of a
vehicle to higher levels in order to protect a low bid of another member.
Is very similar to bid shielding, but concentrates on the actual using of the system
to place a bid just to artificially raise the price
of a vehicle. To avoid this, no related family members, co-workers or those
sharing a computer may bid on each other.s vehicles.
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Disciplinary action from warning, temporary suspension to permanent removal of accounts depending
on severity of offense.
Disciplinary action from warning, temporary suspension to permanent removal of accounts
depending on severity of offense.
Disciplinary action from warning, temporary suspension to permanent removal of accounts
depending on severity of offense.
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Selling Offenses
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Circumventing Fees
Vehicle Non-Delivery
Transaction Interception
Shill Bidding
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By offering vehicles outside the system, or asking or demanding additional
purchases, or multiple purchases or offering a catalog of
other vehicles or demanding high shipping fees.
Seller not delivering the vehicle as advertised or misrepresenting a vehicle for
which payment was received.
Impersonating a seller and fraudulently accepting the payment.
Using the system to bid on a vehicle with the sole purpose of artificially raise
the price of a vehicle. To prevent
this, no related family members, co-workers or those sharing a computer may
bid on each other.s vehicles.
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Disciplinary action from warning, temporary suspension to permanent removal of accounts depending
on severity of offense.
Disciplinary action from warning, temporary suspension to permanent removal of accounts depending
on severity of offense.
Warning, temporary suspension or permanent removal depending on severity of offense.
Disciplinary action from warning, temporary suspension to permanent removal of accounts depending
on severity of offense.
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Feedback Offenses
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Extortion
Solicitation
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If a buyer puts in explicit or implicit threats or conditions in their bid such as:
-Sell me the vehicle (at my bid) or else I will leave negative feedback.
-Pay me X $$ or I will get all of my friends to leave negative feedback.
Any reported offers to buy, sell or trade feedback is solicitation.
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We will remove any feedback and automatically suspend permanently any User ID /
account engaged in this activity.
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Contact/Identity Offenses
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If the User commits any of the
following identity offenses
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-Misrepresents their identity
-Uses or invalid or dead email addresses
-Put false or misleading contact information
-Or is an underage user
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Although not as serious as other offenses we may issue a warning, temporary suspension
or permanent removal depending on severity of offense.
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Misc. Offenses
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Various extraneous offenses
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-Threatening or using profanity against other users
-Using the site to send spam
-Interfering with the site itself
-Publishing or using other user.s contact information improperly.
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Disciplinary action from warning, temporary suspension to permanent removal of accounts depending
on severity of offense.
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