E-Bay Sunglass Bidders & Private Feedback

thedutymon

Good day,
Question,
Many months ago my only Negative Feedback problem was with a Private Feedback Bidder. I eventually got the Neg. removed through the mutual withdrawal thing. Now all of my listings state clearly that if you have Private Feedback don't bother because I will cancel your bids. What I have never really had answered was the reasoning behind wanting your Feedback hidden. Am I missing something, Why and for what logical reason would somebody have for this?????
Second Question. Around the same time a saw somebody had in their listing they didn't take bids from Sunglass Bidders, after just being burned, so I do the same in my listings.
But in actuallity I don't even know what a Sunglass Bidder is???
Thanks
Neil

digicat

<< <i> Why and for what logical reason would somebody have for this????? >>



Maybe the guy likes to bid on stuff that he doesn't want anyone to know about?

e.g. porn, Nazi collectables, etc.

jimq112

They used to put a sunglass symbol by an ID of a new user, the guy who wanted no sunglasses means he wants no newbies

BunchOBull

A lot of high profile individuals keep hidden feedback profiles.

thedutymon

Godo day,
Explain that one a little more. If I was Michael Jordon and was buying collectibles, wouldn't I just have an E-mail and E-Bay ID's that were no clue to who I was. I am still not getting hiding how you consumate your obligations??? Whether your a Buyer or Seller????
Neil

BunchOBull

A few years ago some website posted a lot of high profile eBay IDs, I can't remember where. Also, when sellers recognize buyers as high profile, they often make notation in the feedback as to how great it was to deal with "such and such." Unwanted attention. Technically, a hidden feedback profile should only be used by an individual buying. If they have 100% feedback as a buyer, who cares the details of what they've bought. Shill bidding accounts are not much of an issue with hidden buyer feedback because only the first feedback from any seller counts towards a feedback rating.

thedutymon

Good day,
Thanks for the info and I hear what your saying and understand the logic............................But I still get a bad taste in my mouth, so Hidden Feedback still won't be buying from me.
Thanks
Neil

rube26105

alot of private feedback have bad feedback back scores close to getting kicked off,one reason they are hidden,or as digicat said buying old 70'd pornos or something and dont want to be called a perv lol
randy

Leiascards

What happens should a private FB buyer snipe an auction? You cannot block them from bidding just as you CANNOT block bidders with less than a certain feedback number unless it is a neg. I know of one seller who was suspended for refusing to sell to a zero feedback buyer after they sniped a listing. That buyer filed a NSS with Ebay and the seller got suspended.

digicat

<< <i> I know of one seller who was suspended for refusing to sell to a zero feedback buyer after they sniped a listing. >>



It seems that the main problem folks have with zero feedback bidders is that they don't pay. If one was trying to pay, why refuse the money?


I've put language in my auctions saying "if you have zero feedback, please contact me before bidding". Lots of the NPB kiddies tend to bid on 100 things just for kicks. Actually emailing a seller would be too much work.

I was feeling targeted a while back. I tried ot sell a Walter Payton card a while back, and finally got it sold after 3 tries. The first two times a 0 feedback guy would jumped in, and eventually became a "(-4) NARU." The 3rd time, I wrote "if you have 0 feedback, contact me before bidding or your bid will be canceled" in the auction description. Sure enough, in the last hour of the auction, some 0 feedback guy jumped in and I canceled his bid. The item finally sold that time. The guy who's bid I canceled eventually turned into a "(-4) NARU."