Since people seem to think that the off-topic section is for political discussion, something that is frowned upon, I have temporarily closed the section. ANY political discussions in any other forum will be deleted and the user suspended. I have had it with the politically motivated comments.
Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:11 am
I haven't been on in quite a while, and found that the user names are listed on the bidder side like this: "e***e." Any insight into why this has happened? Is this further anti-trawler efforts on the part of the company?
Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:54 am
I believe they only do that on items that are at a current bid over a certain amount. I the amount appears to be $100. The bidders usually appear as "Bidder 1, Bidder 2" and so on. Only the seller of the item has the list of bidder names.
Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:53 am
ebay resorted to the anonymous bidder i.d. to stop people from running up bids against rivals just to cost them more $$$, & to put a lid on shills ( family members & friends etc who run up the bids on the sellers behalf) it's a common practice even at auctions where a bidder is physically present. quite unethical, & many auctioneers EMPLOY!!! these shills so the auctioneer gets a bigger cut of the commission. a gray area that really can't be controlled. i applaud ebay for it's efforts, but there are to many loop holes to find other ways to do this dirty business practice.
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