new ebay policy

guycrunch

guycrunch

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i just received this message on my coker auction"

""As the internet evolves, eBay continues to strike a balance between preserving transparency and protecting our Community of members. eBay has decided to change how bid history information is displayed so bad guys cannot target bidders with fake offers using this information. In certain cases, some bidders will no longer be able to view Bidder User IDs on the Bid History 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, applied consistently to the Bid History page.""

so now all auctions are "private". in "protecting" the members i think it now made it tough to see if someone is shill bidding or some other activity.

guy
 
it does show some information.. if you use your mouse and scroll over things on the right hand side..

what i dont understand is how outside scammers are able to email your directly.. when it doesnt show your info.. sometimes ebay gives you hard time about just sending somebody a message when your not involved in the auction...

also, from what i seen that you must be able to select that private thing somewhere because there are auctions i was looking at today that didnt have it..

chris
 
ChrisOnline said:
it does show some information.. if you use your mouse and scroll over things on the right hand side..

what i dont understand is how outside scammers are able to email your directly.. when it doesnt show your info.. sometimes ebay gives you hard time about just sending somebody a message when your not involved in the auction...

also, from what i seen that you must be able to select that private thing somewhere because there are auctions i was looking at today that didnt have it..

chris
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How they scam you is if you ask questions on their ads or respond to their questions, they keep a list of Screen ID and cooresponding e-mail addresses in their databases. Then later on they send these lame 2nd chance offers. I get like 3 a week.
 
It's a good idea, if you sell on Ebay you might as well make all your auctions private anyhow to avoid this abuse. If people are shill bidding Ebay monitor that internally regardless of what the public can see.

In addition to what Tate says there are several other common ways this is abused - First is the scammer sets up a new Ebay account with a very similar name to the genuine seller then sends a message to all the bidders with a very generous second chance/best offer deal. They will always make up some excuse for this, typically that their original account has been hacked and they needed to create a new one in a hurry. Then they will always tell you to contact them directly, that they can only accept cash, money transfer or money order and use some PO box or public location address.

Another typical method is to search for sales listings by the bidders until you find one where they have put their direct email address and/or phone number, street address etc. in the text of a sale listing, which is still very common on Ebay, especially for large dealers.

Finally they can try to hack the Ebay account of the person selling. If succesful again they send a mesage pretending to be the seller but asking the buyer to contact them directly outside of Ebay and pay them with cash.
 
TATE said:
How they scam you is if you ask questions on their ads or respond to their questions, they keep a list of Screen ID and cooresponding e-mail addresses in their databases. Then later on they send these lame 2nd chance offers. I get like 3 a week.
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When asking sellers a question, there's a little check box option to 'hide email address from seller'. The seller has to use the 'respond now' button in the ebay message to reply. Works well, always use this option anytime I ask a question.
 
guycrunch said:
i just received this message on my coker auction"

""As the internet evolves, eBay continues to strike a balance between preserving transparency and protecting our Community of members. eBay has decided to change how bid history information is displayed so bad guys cannot target bidders with fake offers using this information. In certain cases, some bidders will no longer be able to view Bidder User IDs on the Bid History 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, applied consistently to the Bid History page.""

so now all auctions are "private". in "protecting" the members i think it now made it tough to see if someone is shill bidding or some other activity.

guy
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Ebay has every reason to promote shilling... they make more money. Now that its hidden, forget it.

JV
 
LOL..."DING REPAIR"...politicians have got a lot to learn about negative campaigning
 
I bid on a Scruggs a few weeks back and got 2 second chance offers. Both in the same day by different people and neither one owned the cue. The private auction may be a good way to end that.

Denny
 
Bad Idea!

The worse part is we will no longer be able to see if we as AZers are bidding against each other.:( Some one says that Ebay patrols shill bidding internally. BS! Maybe after it gets repeatly brought to there attention. But it takes absolute proof not just an I suspect bidder #2 is a shill. Why do you think some are keeping there auctions private. It makes shilling harder for the public to detect.
One possitive, it will cut out guys that lowball bid just to see their name in print.:p Hoping people will check and see what they are selling. Free exposure junkies so to speak.:p
In all I do not fell it is a good change.:mad: :eek:
 
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