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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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If your business is selling coins then buyers have a right to know your business.
Governments can print currency. Only the people can print faith in it — and they’re running low on ink.
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.
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:
Governments can print currency. Only the people can print faith in it — and they’re running low on ink.
Now I'll just need your address.
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.