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New Feebay Change

stormsurgestormsurge Posts: 858 ✭✭
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"Keeping eBay your trusted source for great deals and truly unique finds is important to all of us. Toward this end, we're making an important change:

Soon we will no longer display the complete user IDs of people bidding on any auction-style listing. Instead, we'll use asterisks such as x***y to protect our members' identities. Sellers will continue to see complete user IDs on their listings and the winning bidder's ID will be visible to everyone after the auction ends.

We haven't provided this information on listings of $200 or higher for some time and it's been a very effective fraud deterrent for those items. For safety reasons, we're now expanding this protection to all auction-style listings.

We know many of you like to see who you're bidding against. But displaying this information makes it too easy for scammers to send out fake offers that include convincing details of your actual bidding activity on a specific listing, such as the item number, description and exact amount you bid.

In recent weeks fraudulent email offers targeting listings under $200 has surged unacceptably. To keep eBay a top shopping destination we must choose safety over visibility and nip this in the bud. We recognize for some of you this may be an unwelcome limitation but we hope you'll support our putting more muscle into fraud prevention."

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  • OnlyThe10sOnlyThe10s Posts: 1,850
    Is this new? I thought this has been going on for a while now...??..
  • baseballfanaticbaseballfanatic Posts: 2,415 ✭✭


    << <i>we hope you'll support our putting more muscle into fraud prevention." >>



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  • packCollectorpackCollector Posts: 2,786 ✭✭✭
    i think this is a good move. when they blocked the id's of higher priced items it stopped the fraud on these items but pushed the fraudsters to the lower value items.

    I received a n email from one of my buyers this week saying he received a sencond chance offer on another item he bid on and lost asking if I sent it which I did not. this was for a $175 or so item.
  • dontippetdontippet Posts: 2,609 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Is this new? I thought this has been going on for a while now...??.. >>



    It's now going to be for all items, not just those over $200.
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  • OnlyThe10sOnlyThe10s Posts: 1,850


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    << <i>Is this new? I thought this has been going on for a while now...??.. >>



    It's now going to be for all items, not just those over $200. >>



    Oh, I see. Thank you.
  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭
    Yeah, it will lessen their work of people complaining of someone spamming their auctions....viva la ebay scamming!
  • gumbyfangumbyfan Posts: 5,168 ✭✭✭
    Bring on the endless shill bids! After all, feebay doesn't care, a higher sale price means more fees for them...especially now after the FVF rate hike. Curious timing? image
  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    exactly craig,if u cant see the $$ after 200$,guaranteed half are shilled,ebay is stupid, another no brainerimage
  • jayhawkejayhawke Posts: 1,316 ✭✭✭
    When has ebay cared about buyers. Sellers pay the bills. They must be losing too much money on off ebay transactions. Not sure how they could track that though.
  • BobaFett72BobaFett72 Posts: 7,304
    ebay doesnt care about buyers and cares even less about sellers :0)
  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    Not sure how they could track that though.

    1947-big brother is watching youimage
  • mexisarmexisar Posts: 394


    << <i>i think this is a good move. when they blocked the id's of higher priced items it stopped the fraud on these items but pushed the fraudsters to the lower value items.

    I received a n email from one of my buyers this week saying he received a sencond chance offer on another item he bid on and lost asking if I sent it which I did not. this was for a $175 or so item. >>


    I received a fake second chance offer for a 3000 item, who knows how they were able to do it, hacking the site? last year
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  • brianwintersfanbrianwintersfan Posts: 3,626 ✭✭
    I have received some of these bogus offers as well. They were sent to my Yahoo email address which matches my Ebay user id. The thing is that it's not the email address tied to my Ebay account. I like to play with these guys and then tell them to F off!
  • gumbyfangumbyfan Posts: 5,168 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I have received some of these bogus offers as well. They were sent to my Yahoo email address which matches my Ebay user id. The thing is that it's not the email address tied to my Ebay account. I like to play with these guys and then tell them to F off! >>



    I'll trick you someday!!! Bwaaahahaha!
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