Yup. And remember FBs can go up, but not down (much). It only works for a small community of special interest bidders, not the vast majority.
-John ============ > When you combine the alias with the rating - e.g. k***u ( 862 ) - the > accuracy starts to resemble crosshairs in a sniper scope. > > Ed > > > J. Forster wrote: >> Yup. It helps to know that the masked bidder ID, liks a***f, stays >> constant sale to sale. While there are only a few over 650 such >> combinations, it's still pretty accurate on items with limited appeal. >> >> -John >> >> ================== >> >> >>> Hi all; >>> It was nice back when ebay let us know who we were bidding against, if >>> you >>> were up a against some heavy hitter then why waste your time, etc. Now >>> it >>> takes a little more work to ferret out who you're up against. What I >>> have >>> done is to save the feedback page for a seller of an item I may have >>> been >>> out bid on. Usually within a short time the bidders feedback response >>> shows up on the sellers feedback page, compare the feedback score back >>> against the item page to check if you have the right person. Then from >>> that you can do a bidder search in "advanced search" and look at items >>> bid >>> on in the last 30 days to cross check. I then save the bidder's bid >>> page >>> in a folder, I have done that to most of us bidding time-nuts. Creepy >>> huh!?! >>> >>> Rich 1PPS >>> > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.