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I have some auctions running right now, and if I look at them on my MEPAGE list......all I see is bidder 1, bidder 1.....
now if one clicks on a BIDDER 1 ....
this is what ebay tells you......
* This Listing Is Unavailable
This listing () has been removed or is no longer available. Please make sure you entered the right item number.
If the listing was removed by eBay, consider it canceled. Note: Listings that have ended more than 90 days ago will no longer appear on eBay. *
THis could be a bit confusing.
I like looking at my mepage to see the bids.
I don't like the new and improved ebay .....really big sigh.
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Sounds like the American site is in the process of getting what the Australian and UK sites got in November, in which case you will soon get this on the "text" type seller page as well. For Australian listings, if I am logged in I can still see my own bidders on the text page, every one else's page just shows Bidder_1 Bidder_3 etc.
I was accused of shilling by a bidder in the first week that it applied to the Australian site, and documented the "development" of this new idea in this thread (they seemed to just fix it on the fly).
It will also ultimately apply to the auction page and bidding history once any auction exceeds a certain price ($200 in Australia, and GBP 100 in the UK), and already applies to auctions in Ebay motors on the US site. Can you pick whether there is a shill bidder on this auction? (I am not suggesting that there is one, simply pointing out what the bidders now see on a random high value auction with multiple bidders).
Kevin
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This is not one of ebay's better ideas. Not at all.
I would think any bidder would like to know who their competition is.....
Maybe if ebay would fix some of their older glitches first....they would
not have need to come up with new ideas to protect our privacy .
This might make more people go out in the real world to a live auction....
heck at one of them, you can look your competition right in the eye.
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I understood that the "Bidder 1" strategy was to be applied only when auctions reach the $200 level, then it would automatically switch over from identified bidders to Bidder 1, Bidder 2, etc. Why is it now showing up on EVERY auction?
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I was just thinking about the $ 200 part also.....
my auction I am refering to, is only for .98 to start....not even a $ 1.00 .
Ebay must be REALLY getting paranoid
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It may be a rollout glitch. Hopefully.
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If it applies the same with US Dollar auctions as Australian dollar and British Pounds, it applies to every auction on the "text" seller list (it has not kicked in on my US dollar auctions at this stage), but the buyers name is shown when the auctions are completed (on any seller list, not just your own). It has only applied on the auction pages and bidding histories, once the bidding has passed the stated figure (GBP 100 or AU $250 - I remembered wrongly above). There were heaps of changes to how it was presented in the first three weeks which I logged in another thread, but it has gotten consistant since.
Australian and UK Bidder lists will now only show the completed auctions that the bidder has been successful on, if they were the underbidder on every auction that one specific seller offered, they will not show in the bidding list at all.
They have created a shillers paradise in the name of bidder protection. Sweeeeet!
Hmmmm, Kevin
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Searching buyers/sellers closed auctions has been down the past few days. Related?
eta: After reading Kevin's post, I see it is. grrrr
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Fountainhouse,
If you would like I can email you the URL's I use for those purposes (unless you have some bookmarked) - you just change the user ID to suit, that has all been working that way fine for me, although many bidder lists are very incomplete.
Kind Regards, Kevin
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it applies to every auction on the "text" seller list (it has not kicked in on my US dollar auctions at this stage),
It has now changed my bidder names to Bidder_1 and Bidder_2 on my text list for my US dollar auctions, when I am not fairly freshly logged in.
Kevin