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Sorry, I wasn't awake enough to think of this at first.
Some of the questions on the questionaire are:
Registration Date
Location of “Bidder X” (state, country)
“Bidder X” Average Maximum Bid in this category
Last time “Bidder X” won an item
Percentage of auctions “Bidder X” successfully Won (Wins vs. Losses)
“Bidder X” bid on this item last time it was listed (for re-listed items)
What price point would you consider "safe" for revealing a bidder's info (User ID) on eBay? (starts at $100 and goes up.)
Below is a mockup of the current Bid History page on eBay that includes Avatars. Please look at the image carefully, and then click on the continue button to answer the questions that follow. (list of colorful and uninteresting/confusing avitars)
How interested would you be to have avatars displayed instead of Bidder 1 or Bidder 2 names on eBay?
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Yuck!
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Bidding is down and they are worried about avatars? AVATARS? Holey Moley
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That would be some excellent information about bidder X if I was a shiller
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There have been a lot of complaints about the bidder 1 bidder 2 business and I suspect this is a way for bidders to identify competing bidders by avatar.
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I certainly understand that-but are there that many little bitty avatars out there? And with the way ebay is, most of them are going to look so close to each other you can't tell the difference lol. Besides, within the same auction-isn't each bidder differentiated, ie bidder 1 isn't the same as bidder 2?
I'm not seeing them as assigning a different avatar to EVERY ebay member since that kinda would defeat the purpose a little-just using avatars instead of the designation of bidder 1 or 2. So instead of trying to FIX ebay, they are fiddling with avatars.
Originally Posted by DareMe
There have been a lot of complaints about the bidder 1 bidder 2 business and I suspect this is a way for bidders to identify competing bidders by avatar.