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Ebay will now hide bidder ID's for under 200.00
Posted By: Richard L.
They announced this today,not sure when this goes into effect. The main reason explained was that too many buyers have an ID that matches their email. |
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Posted By: Matt
O fall the recent changes, this has the opportunity to be the most dangerous. |
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Ebay will now hide bidder ID's for under 200.00
Posted By: Zinn
Email received today: |
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Ebay will now hide bidder ID's for under 200.00
Posted By: Dan Bretta
*******NEWSFLASH******** |
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Posted By: 1880nonsports
this would be the worst decision they have ever made. I really thought they would be going in the OTHER DIRECTION! I am a bit sad and frustrated........... |
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Ebay will now hide bidder ID's for under 200.00
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Posted By: Matt
frank - I get them too; I just ignore them. |
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Ebay will now hide bidder ID's for under 200.00
Posted By: Anthony S.
I'm getting the exact same e-mail subject headings. I'm almost positive I'm not selling any wedding rings on Ebay, so I never open them. |
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Posted By: Joann
Frank, |
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Posted By: Mac Wubben
The problem that ebay is trying to fix is a minor one that can completely be alleviated by not permitting ebay ids to match email addresses. It is an incredibly easy solution. Instead, they choose to sacrifice the integrity of their auctions. Yes ebay, auction tranparancy is important to buyers...why don't you do something to protect that? I guess I should thank them...after years of suffering under from ebay addiction, I finally am over it. |
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Ebay will now hide bidder ID's for under 200.00
Posted By: sagard
I was thinking they would come out and say we found more bids and prices realized with the listings over $200 so we are going to reward everyone with this opportunity! |
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Ebay will now hide bidder ID's for under 200.00
Posted By: Larry
I like this policy because it will keep other bidders from interfering with my sales techniques and bothering the bidders who bid only on my auctions. |
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Ebay will now hide bidder ID's for under 200.00
Posted By: davidcycleback
They could, of course, notify bidders that it would be wise to have different id and email name. I'm not even aware that a majority of eBay users have ids that match their email names. |
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Ebay will now hide bidder ID's for under 200.00
Posted By: boxingcardman
The spamming is a red herring. If Ebay was really interested in stopping the spam it could easily do so by blocking email disclosure and barring other "member" contacts through its system except with a seller in regard to a particular item. It doesn't do so, which leads to the conclusion that spamming is a non-issue for ebay. |
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Ebay will now hide bidder ID's for under 200.00
Posted By: Mark L
It seems to me that we could still identify some shill biddding with the new policy since we'll presumably still be able to find out if the bidder has a short bidding history and if the bidder bids only on one seller's auctions. In any case, it will further discourage me from bidding since I will know less about my competition. I suppose it's just a matter of time before they make the seller anonymous, too. |
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Ebay will now hide bidder ID's for under 200.00
Posted By: Philip Cohen
In Australia, the UK, Ireland and the Philippines, eBay has obscured auction bidding to the point that genuine bidders have got absolutely no chance of detecting and thereby protecting themselves from “shill” bidding (a criminal offence in most civilised countries) by unethical vendors. Notwithstanding eBay’s statements to the contrary, this application of absolute anonymity (ie, Bidder 1, Bidder 2, etc) by eBay on these sites serves absolutely no purpose other than to deceive consumers by making even any otherwise obvious shill bidding undetectable; and the same criticism has always been applicable to eBay’s other shill bidders’ facility, “User ID kept private”. Again, notwithstanding eBay’s various pronouncements about shill bidding being banned on eBay, eBay is now effectively (and knowingly) “aiding and abetting” such shill bidders on these sites, at the expense of consumers. A lengthy critical analysis of this matter at: |
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Posted By: Jason
I just snipe bid on the items I want for the price I want to pay. Hard to shill that. |
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Ebay will now hide bidder ID's for under 200.00
Posted By: cmoking
on the contrary, you may still be paying more than you legitimately should due to shillers. |
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Ebay will now hide bidder ID's for under 200.00
Posted By: Pennsylvania Ted
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Posted By: Rob D.
I just snipe bid on the items I want for the price I want to pay. Hard to shill that. |
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Ebay will now hide bidder ID's for under 200.00
Posted By: J Levine
Cannot wait to attach my name to the first class action suit against ebay... |
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Posted By: davidcycleback
Rob and cmoking are correct. Many shilled auctions are shilled up on day one, and a last second bid doesn't protect the the winner from these shilled bids. |
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