Bidding on your own auction

[Howe’s Hunter]

Since eBay went to the whole bidder privacy thing years ago, and your bids no longer show up under your eBay name, do you always have the same cryptic handle no matter what you bid on? Guess I've never paid that much attention, but if I bid on something last year, and someone saw I was bidder A****Z, would I still be bidder A****Z a year later when I bid on something again, or are those things randomly generated?

Sorry, just don't have a clue about this.

[smtjoy]

Yes your ebay scrambled ID shows up the same, mine is always the same even when checking VCP on cards I purchased.

[Tobacco&Gum]

Originally Posted by smtjoy

Yes your ebay scrambled ID shows up the same, mine is always the same even when checking VCP on cards I purchased.

+1, same goes for card target

[bcbgcbrcb]

I think they are random but not 100% sure.

[Edwolf1963]

Good question - I know I always come up as o***o along with my feedback score (I don't know what people do to get listed as "private"?)

Now, they may assign "o***o" to others as well, I'm not sure..? But this is too much of a coincidence -- y***y (private) wins the card on 12/2, consigns the card for re-sell to Probstein123 and then y***y (private) shows up bidding on it..? Wow.

I've reported it, called eBay - they did confirm that y***y (private) won the card on 12/2 and has now bid on that very same card in this current auction Probstein123 has. Unknown if Rick is aware, that's why I called eBay instead of just reporting it as a shill bid.

[D. Bergin]

Somebody should probably contact Probstein about it. I doubt he keeps track of all of his consignors ID's, or checks the bid history of every one of his auctions.