The good old days on eBay

[mcap100176]

I'm not.

I am the only one in my family who has an Ebay account; actually not too many of my friends do either. What I do is bid on items for them and they simply reimburse me. My email was getting hammered on "outside of Ebay offers" and mailing lists that I was placed on. Since the block on the id's, I receive nothing and it is actually pretty nice.

I can understand your viewpoint but take it from someone who has bid on items from Aaron to Zsa Zsa Gabor (don't even ask), it's been great.

[Matt]

Just to add to what Leon said - where we're at right now is that we certainly will show all bidder IDs once the auction is over so there can be transparency. The question comes down to do we also show them to everyone while the listing is live. As Leon and I plan to be vigilant in monitoring the site, there should be no need to contact a bidder to let him know he's bidding on a fraudulent item - contact us and we'll take care of it.

As Leon said, we're still mulling this one over though...

[Anthony S.]

mcap,

But wouldn't having an email ID that bears no similarity to your email address accomplish the same thing?

[Abravefan11]

Not showing the bidder ID's during the auction protects the seller, showing them after protects the buyer.

[ullmandds]

to be devils advocate...there may be occasions where you keep upping your bid so a specific buyer doesn't win...which will benefit the seller...and one's spite index!

[Leon]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

to be devils advocate...there may be occasions where you keep upping your bid so a specific buyer doesn't win...which will benefit the seller...and one's spite index!

Hey Peter
I think that can easily happen with not knowing the bidders ID's too ala most of the premium auction houses s/w. I can't say how many times I have kept freaking clicking and bidding and have never gotten to the high bid. At the end of the day there will be decisions we make that we feel are better than others, but rarely, if ever, will they be perfect.

[Cat]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

to be devils advocate...there may be occasions where you keep upping your bid so a specific buyer doesn't win...which will benefit the seller...and one's spite index!

I buy cards out of spite on a regular basis, especially from auction houses. I had one of these purchases make the board as a "this is rediculous" thread and I am 100% confident that I wasn't shilled, although at the time I didn't know the identity of the opposite bidder.