New Bid History Policy
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on 13-01-2008 10:40 PM
The following Notice appears in the Bid History section:
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To help keep the eBay community safe, enhance bidder privacy, and protect our members from fraudulent emails (such as fake second chance offers), eBay has changed how bid history information is displayed. If you place a bid on a higher-priced item, only you and the seller of the item can view your User ID in the bid history. Other members can no longer view User IDs and will see anonymous names, such as Bidder 1.
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Of-course, the bidders' names are blanked-out. How can one detect shill bidding if the bidder's identity is not known? This new policy (though immensely beneficial to eBay) makes it very difficult for users to detect - and importantly prove - "illegal" shill bidding. All in the name of users' "privacy."
- mvk
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To help keep the eBay community safe, enhance bidder privacy, and protect our members from fraudulent emails (such as fake second chance offers), eBay has changed how bid history information is displayed. If you place a bid on a higher-priced item, only you and the seller of the item can view your User ID in the bid history. Other members can no longer view User IDs and will see anonymous names, such as Bidder 1.
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Of-course, the bidders' names are blanked-out. How can one detect shill bidding if the bidder's identity is not known? This new policy (though immensely beneficial to eBay) makes it very difficult for users to detect - and importantly prove - "illegal" shill bidding. All in the name of users' "privacy."
- mvk
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on 29-01-2008 08:40 PM
And this new policy appears to be operational only on eBay.in (Indian website). What gives?
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