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Subject: [OM] Re: yabe hides ID's
From: ScottGee1 <scottgee1@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:20:20 -0500
Dan, thanks for your insights on the subject.  You raise a number of
points I hadn't considered.

ScottGee1

On 1/13/07, Daniel Sepke <daniel.sepke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The Safeguarding Members Id's policy came into effect earlier this week
> following a trial period on eBay Motors for the last month or so. The
> substitute bidder identities appear as an item goes over a price threshold
> of $200 for the US site (it is I think 100 pounds for the UK site). The
> intention is to reduce fraudulent second chance offers by removing under
> bidder id's from public view. As a seller all of the bidders id's will be
> visible to you but only while the auction is running.
>
> One of the major concerns I have is that this scheme will make shill bidding
> easier to hide. It is now impossible for active eBay community members to
> report concerns of shill bidding as they have lost the facility to research
> and link id's. As others have mentioned one of eBay's main concerns is to
> guard fee income and it is a fact that regardless of the illegal nature of
> shill bidding it is beneficial to eBay's bottom line. Sadly eBay do not have
> as good a track record on dealing with this type of problem as they could.
> There is a concern that they need to be seen doing something about this
> problem but not necessarily be very effective at stopping it. Though I will
> note the SMI policy is not really about stopping shill biding.
>
> Another effect of the policy is that only the high bidder id will be
> revealed on the listing page at the close of auction. The side effect of
> this change is that searching based on a bidder id will now only show
> winning bids if you select the closed listing option. I used to use this
> search feature for several purposes including: evaluating if it is worth
> attempting to bid against someone, if they are page marker and snipe bidder
> and if they have been trying to buy an item at a certain price level.
>
> It will also now be difficult to assess if you bidding against on higher
> value items. Be it a list member or someone like Alex. I know for instance
> that there are certain apparently deep pocketed id's that I see in the pro
> audio categories that I know there is no point even trying to bid against.
>
> Oh well... As I have heard on some the eBay community message boards
> regarding this subject there is little that can be done to undo it and in a
> couple of months it will just be another part of the system and no one will
> think to mention it.
>
> Sorry for the rambling...
>
> Dan S.

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