E-Bay Hidden Bidder Crappola !!!!!!!

thedutymon

Good Day,
Question, if anybody knows the answer. As you can guess my opinion of E-bays BS they started awhile ago of hiding the Bidders identity over $200. My question is: is the info that you can see such as D***y (344) real or is that all made up. In other words for my own reasons I like and sometimes need to know who I lost to or won an auction from. The actual e-bayers who frequent my normal E-bay world of Non Sports with the means to bid over $100 on an item is fairly small, probably a few hundred at most. And lets make sure there is no confusion as to why E-Bay did this, It is not to protect us from fraud or whatever they are claiming this week. It is plain and simple to make it harder to deals outside of E-bay and they don't get their cut...period !!!!
So can I use this partial info to figure out who I won an auction over?
And secondly, if E-bay really wants to protect us E-bayers, then they shouldn't show my identity to anybody as the winner and we can all just go Bidder #1 bid agaist Bidder #267, and take all the personality out of the equation !!!!!!

Neil..... Errr... I mean Bidder #578.

colebear

At first I thought it was real. but just last week I was watching an auction where one of my main competitors for this card was the high bidder. As soon as it went over $200, the identities were hidden and the first and last letter of his ID did not correspond to any of the ID's any longer and he had not retracted his bid. So I have come to the conclusion that they are made up. I do not even know if the letter count is correct.

rbeaton

They are all random. I looked at at auction where I was the high bidder and it was something random. I did this from another computer so it wouldn't recognize me and display my username.

Robert

mtcards

Ahhhh, ebay now even makes it easier to shill bid, of course it helps their bottom line....Go Feebay...Go Feebay...Its your birthday

jfkheat

The first and last digits in the hidden bidder name do not match the actual bidders user name.
James

BobaFett72

interesting, i didnt realize they totally obscured the bidders, i thought the first and last letters were the actual name.