I started straying from ebay a few months back. If I come across
something in my ebay 'searches', I check to see if it's a member of
MoPo before I bid. If not, I generally skip it. Same thing for
magic posters. I just go directly to their private auctions. Some
people, like me, only go behind ebay's back because ebay is too sleazy/
sneaky to do good business with. Of course, you can't leave feedback
that way, but most of us are interested in the item, not the feedback.
Ebay brought this on themselves. Greedy people always seem to cost
themselves more $$ directly relating to their greed. ... and so be
it, no? My guess is their greed will be their downfall.
Andrea
On Mar 6, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Patrick Michael Tupy wrote:
I agree COMPLETELY! I have had probably 50 times where I have not
bid due to a friend being the current high bidder. OR for me, when
deciding how much to bid and when, to strategically see what other
bidder's history's were in the last 30 days or so could help me gage
in some way how high they would 'normally' go in their past
auctions. I have ZERO problem with anyone seeing my past history,
etc. and as information is power, we are clearly all becoming far
less powerful on Ebay where there is so little to be had in the
first place. Also, just as an aside, wouldn't being unable to see a
bidder's ID encourage some unscrupulous Sellers to shill bid their
items. Anywho, as a result, I will likely not bid as often on Ebay
due to all the current 'improvements' and end up buying from dealers
more. In fact, I already have been.
I actually spoke to a rep at Ebay and complained about the new
Seller fees and not being able to leave negative feedback while
buyers still could. He stated that there was retaliatory feedback
happening (yeah, I know, shocking), to which I replied, great, now
any bidder can hurt a Seller's rep with impunity, how is that fair?
His response, "Well, we are putting a huge amount of dedicated
manpower toward resolving any complaints etc. and any banned buyer's
feedback will be removed retroactively." To which I replied,
doesn't the fact that you feel you have to allocate all this new
manpower mean that you've actually created a new problem that
requires such action on your part.? He said they'd had a lot of
complaints about this and he'd 'note' my statements to his managers,
etc.
I'm sure my complaint this will solve everything.
Patrick
On Mar 6, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Freedom Lover wrote:
I noticed that, but I don't think it's necessarily a good idea. I
mostly buy and if I want something a friend of mine is bidding on,
I'll sometimes let it go (depends on the piece, of course). Of
course, the sellers will say this is bad for business and they're
right. I still liked the option of standing aside for a bud.
Andrea
On Mar 6, 2008, at 2:29 PM, Kenwick Cook wrote:
Hey gang;
I just noticed that starting today, that "putting your name in
the room" means nothing... I guess it's now truly a 'silent
auction'... bidders' screen names are no longer legible,
regardless of the going-price... below is the new quote on all
Bidding History pages:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
To help keep the eBay community safe, enhance bidder privacy, and
protect our members from fraudulent emails, eBay has changed how
User IDs display on the bid history page. Only you and the seller
of the item can view your User ID, all other members will see
anonymous user IDs, such as x***y.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I guess as a bidder, I kinda like the limiting of fraud, however,
I'll miss putting my screen name out there because I truly felt
that it helped to link buyers to My Store with that silly little
Red Door...
What're y'all's thoughts?
FranKenwick
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