If you ever place bids on eBay, you need this information

[SpurHunter]

This is a new policy ebay is starting. It should really help control fraud. Just an FYI.</p>

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Important new buyer identity protection</p>

Keeping eBay your trusted source for great deals and truly unique finds is important to all of us. Toward this end, we're making an important change:</p>

<font color="#ff0000">Soon we will no longer display the complete user IDs of people bidding on any auction-style listing. Instead, we'll use asterisks such as x***y to protect our members' identities.</font> Sellers will continue to see complete user IDs on their listings and the winning bidder's ID will be visible to everyone after the auction ends.</p>

<font color="#ff0000">We haven't provided this information on listings of $200 or <u>higher</u> for some time and it's been a very effective fraud deterrent for those items.</font> For safety reasons, we're now expanding this protection <font color="#0000ff">to all auction-style listings</font>.</p>

We know many of you like to see who you're bidding against. But displaying this information makes it too easy for scammers to send out fake offers that include convincing details of your actual bidding activity on a specific listing, such as the item number, description and exact amount you bid.</p>

In recent weeks <font color="#0000ff">fraudulent email offers</font> targeting listings under $200 has <font color="#0000ff">surged unacceptably</font>. To keep eBay a top shopping destination we must choose safety over visibility and nip this in the bud. We recognize for some of you this may be an unwelcome limitation but we hope you'll support our putting more muscle into fraud prevention.</p>

If you have any questions please call Customer Service at 1-800-717-eBay (800-717-3229) or read our executive announcement.</p>

 

[Guest]

Spur, they also went up on their fees and now sellers can't leave bad feedback on bad buyers, otherwords they are supporting bad buyers and don't want to loose them. There was a boycott a couple of weeks a go on ebay, don't know how it affected them. A lot of sellers left.

 

[foodsaver]

the problem with the boycott is it was for a week and quite frankly from our perspective there isnt another option that gets that amount of traffic.

 

[SpurHunter]

Thanks Doc but this is for buyer safty, not the bull hockey they are puling with the fees...totaly different issue.

 

[minner]

Hehehe I though read, "If you ever place kids on eBay, you need this information"....too many long nights

On a different note, I use ebay quite a bit, buying and selling. Fees have gotten rediculous. I am surprise no one else has come up with an Ebay like competitor.

 

[SpurHunter]

Yahoo, and Ebid. Very tough to break into this market though. Ebay is the 800lb gorrilla.

 

[foodsaver]

there is also Ioffer. The problem we have had with the others is just like spur said. Ebay is the 800 lb gorilla and you won't have any traffic if you dont use them so you make up for the lower fees with lower selling prices