new ebayers, check this out

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justabrake

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It seems that once an item bid exceeds $200 the user IDs are obscured by eBay, and only the winning bidder ID is shown after the auction ends. This used to show up as Bidder 1, Bidder 2, etc, but I guess this is a new format now in use by eBay.
 
Hmm..it's not just cues, i got out bid on a Clausing by a "h***h". I don't know what it means. I'm not hip enough for the 'bay anymore. Seems they all have plenty of transactions.

Andy
 
justabrake said:
has anyone notice all of these new bidders on ebay bidding on cues!

here's an example of them and there's alot more like it bidding away on all cues


http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=110162278990


http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=200145455477

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=120154737098


http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=280146333086




Steven
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I beleive this is called shill bidding, meaning, the seller is bidding on his/ her own items
 
for awhile there ebay was hiding the complete ebayer names of bidders... this seems to be alittle better.. where you can atleast see the first letter and last letter and you know its not a made up account.. better then seeing that bidder 1 and bidder 2 thing..

chris
 
ChrisOnline said:
for awhile there ebay was hiding the complete ebayer names of bidders... this seems to be alittle better.. where you can atleast see the first letter and last letter and you know its not a made up account.. better then seeing that bidder 1 and bidder 2 thing..

chris
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I agree, this is much better. Those anonymous bidders made me nervous.

Chris
 
Here is what Ebay said about it...

eBay has changed how bid history information is displayed for higher-priced items. To help keep the eBay community safe, enhance bidder privacy, and protect our members from fraudulent emails, only you and the seller of the item can view your User ID in bid history. Other members will see anonymous names.
 
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