EBay feedeback meaning of "private listing"
Glen2022
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When bidding on Ebay I frequently check the feedback of the seller, particularly if there are negative or even neutral grades given by buyers. Recently in doing so I saw all of the first full page of buyers leaving feedback did not have a link to the item he/she bought but rather was listed as "private listing". and was not able to see the item purchased. The buyers comments were shown. Does anyone know the significance of "private listings" in feedback? In this particular case the seller had no negative or neutral ratings for the year, only positive.
Thanks, Bill
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You can set it to private for any number of reasons. You could be selling adult material, for example. Or your simply paranoid about people knowing your business.
If your business is selling coins then buyers have a right to know your business.
I believe the "private listing" concept was devised to hide the bidders on the front end, and the feedback page differences are just an extension of that.
In the bad old days on ebay you could see the bidders' actual user names and could contact them directly. Even with the current practice of concealing bidders' actual user names you can sometimes recognize patterns or trends. With private listings you can't do that.
This is not to be confused with private feedback, which is a seller concealing their feedback altogether.
Some people sell multiple things.
Ask your local coin shop for a list of all of their prior sales and see if you are invited back in.
They call them "private treaty" sales for a reason... emphasis on private.
If you could pay a list of all of your coin holdings, that would also be greatly appreciated.
It means that they don't want others to see that they ripped someone off.
BHNC #203
That has been my experience. No feedback with real buyers, not my money!
no problem:
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Lol. You're a good egg.
People are paranoid about it, however, for non-nefarious reasons.
Now I'll just need your address.
Lol.
Which is why some people are secretive...
Wasn't it once true that you could create listings without making them public? Then just sharing the link with a few select buyers? That's what I thought "private listing" meant, or used to. I'd really like that capability.
I regard such listings as extremely suspicious and do not bid on them at all. I tried years ago and saw some strange activity, sales, and re-listed items. Unless the listings are for very expensive items, I immediately believe there is suspicious activity when seeing “private”
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I think a lot of the sellers who do private listings do it to hide shill bidding.