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I have been one of those people, so let me
give you a couple reasons for having a private eBay alias (not that these are my
reasons, actually I can tell you they're not):
Maybe I don't want other people to see my
bidding behavior. Maybe I'm sniping, or targeting certain types of
auctions. Maybe I'm buying something 'embarrassing' (ever go to the
'adult' section of eBay? Come on, admit it!!).
There are probably a dozen easy reasons why
someone would want to hide their feedback -- some people just value their
privacy, period. And, by the way, if you click on someone's private
feedback, you can see the absolute numbers of positives and negatives, you just
can't read the comments or the auction numbers.
Hope that clarifies this for anyone who's
interested.
-Erich
While the concept of hidden feedback
seems antithetical to good relations among users - buyers and sellers - if you
ask these private feedback folks to see their feedback, which is there,
behind the scrim of "private", and it's not worthy of reliance then a more
informed decision can be made. (Not all are doing this to perpetrate scams or
avoid actual scrutiny.) If they decline to be forthcoming, then they
are a must to avoid. I have had good dealings with a few
"private" folks (and even some whose f/b is below 98%). But why they do
this is actually more than a bit obtuse, because enlightened fiscal
self-interest suggests the first and perhaps better response is to just not
deal and not investigate, so they lose custom and are blocked from bidding.
Craig, Vancouver
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 3:55
PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] [Style-b] eBay
allows people to HIDE feedback now? (!)
Dear JR,
I totally agree. I was going to bid on something last week
and went to have a look at the person's feedback and there it was "hidden".
I'm thinking, "why have feedback, if you can hide it". I can't even
understand the concept. It's like our past governor voting to give illegal
aliens valid California driver's licenses. I mean, isn't there something
wrong with this picture.
Sue Heim
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 12:21
PM
Subject: [Style-b] eBay allows people
to HIDE feedback now? (!)
MessageI dunno... I guess I just don't pay close enough
attention -- but when the heck did eBay start allowing users the option to
HIDE their feedback?
I just had someone bid on one of my sci-fi
pulp auctions on eBay and I look at the bid and see that instead of a
feedback score showing up next to the user name like normal, instead there
is the word "(private)" displayed!
So I went in and cancelled the
guy's bid -- even if eBay thinks it is OK for a user to hide their
feedback, I won't be allowing those who do to bid on my stuff, nope...
sorry.
What is the point of having a public feedback system if
you're going to allow people to hide their feedback from
view?
Exasperated minds want to know.
--
JR
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