Do you think there is a lot of corruption on ebay?

I think there are a lot of scammers on eBay, but not more than anywhere else.

yeah, i know I have run into some fraud once or twice on ebay. What I really hate is when people say that the thing you are buying is something other than what it is. Like I bought a Liverpool scarf for my boyfriend and it said that it was a wool scarf. I won the scarf and I got it and it is definitely not wool! It's felt! When I got it I went to complain to the seller and they were no longer an ebay user. Figures.

I haven't had enough experience with eBay to tell, but I am sure there are a lot of corrup people who use it.

Space does not allow the matter to be here explored with further examples but it is apparent from many of the statements made from time to time by eBay that nowadays very little that eBay says can be accepted at face value, and the first sentence of the above answer (“No—the changes will not make shill bidding any easier.”) is a classic example of what appears to be a progression towards habitual disingenuousness—it is a patently absurd statement. Of course total bidder anonymity makes shill bidding easier—as it would so do at any personally attended live auction—just as the absolute anonymity offered by eBay’s “User ID kept private” facility has already enabled shill bidders to operate on eBay with little fear of detection—notwithstanding eBay’s dubious claim of having “sophisticated tools” for the detection of such shill bidding. And, at an attended live auction (assuming the auctioneer is not complicit in the activity—flies on the wall have been known to make bids), a shill bidder risks having to pay the auctioneer’s full selling commission and a buyer’s premium to boot; no such risk for shill-bidding sellers operating on eBay: if the supposed “buyer” does not pay then the seller pays only the nominal listing fee.

I understand what you are saying... shill bidding is somewhat of a common practice, but it can easily be proven when the same bidder continually bids on the same sellers items. A shill bidder wil often bid in small incremments until they top a real bidders top bid. The thing is, the "real" bidders must feel the doll is worth several hundred dollars, because if a shill bidder's bid is the high bid, they obviously don't pay for the doll, but the seller has to pay listing and final value fees (or file a NPB claim against his friend, who bid up the auction) Either way, it doesn't make a lot of sense to do this. eBay will eventually catch on to the practice between buyer and seller and the seller either files a claim and loses their listing fee or ends up eating a big final vlaue fee also. You have to have a real buyer willing to spend a lot of money to shill bid auctions up to $500 (and the buyer must not be very aware of what's going on) I hope one of these buyers find you friends items soon, so he/she may make a lot of money on the next listing.