Pixelfill Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 As online shopping evolves, eBay continues to focus on preserving our marketplace's open and level playingfield whilst protecting our Community of members. We have decided to change how bid history information is displayed so unscrupulous people cannot target bidders with fake offers using this information. In certain cases, some bidders will no longer be able to see other bidder's User IDs on the listing page. Your User ID will be shown only to you and the seller of the item you're bidding on. Other members will see an anonymous name, such as Bidder 1, Bidder 2 etc. As far as I can tell, you can still get the user feedback score, but you can't work out any bidding history - i.e. to see whether these bidders have previously bumped up the price of items with certain sellers. What does everyone think of this new policy ? I'd particularly appreciate Michael (I'm ace at ebay sleuthing) Canny's opinions on this. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheefa Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I'd appreciate Jazz's comments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 It was brought up recently: http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?t=92279& Typical eBay really, it helps stop the problem of people being contacted to buy similar items outside of eBay (thus opening them up to scams / robbing eBay of fees) but it also stops people like us spotting people like Jazz. So basically, in my opinion at least, it's been introduced to keep things in eBay so they grab the money from sales and it stops us being able to identify shill bidding so the cost of items goes up which in turn earns eBay more in sellers fees. eBay win, eBay users lose, the usual story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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