I listed a premium domain of my client and bought ultra premium upgrades but since the auction was not going well i went ahead and promoted through facebook ads, adwords and Linkedin.
Since the domain was related to finance, i called up few stock brokers and invited them on flippa auction. One of them was interested and i went ahead helped him setup an account through telephonic conversation.
After that i received an email that my account is banned for paid bidding and when i asked more details i received the below information:
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Hello,
Thanks for reaching out!
You can reach out to any interested buyers in or out of the Flippa marketplace. Shill Bidding occurs when a bid is placed without the intention to win the auction, or when a party related to the seller bids.
A bidder who has placed a bid, is most often an interested buyer as a seller must give them the benefit of the doubt as any buyer that backs out on a sale is going against Flippa Rules which may lead to sanctions applied to his/her Flippa account and possible banning from the site.
Please let me know if you need any further support, I am here to help.
Cheers,
Devoir
Now, my question to flippa is:
1) Is promoting auction url against flippa terms?
2) Is inviting interested bidders to auction against flippa?
I am completely against such biddings and have started threads here previously and also notified flippa multiple times about some auctions where such bids were happening.
My previous thread: http://experienced-people.net/forums...ding-on-Flippa
I am not sure why they are behind my account. They have also linked a possible link profile and i have sent multiple identity cards for the same few months ago.
Is it racism since i am from India. I mentioned the word "racism" since i saw the listing of "shipyourenemiesglitter.com" where a new seller from Australia was awarded a "super seller status" which is usually given to sellers who have completed multiple transactions successfully and received positive feedback as per flippa guidelines.
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