Bruce, I loudly APPLAUD your decision to go back to open auctions!!! Now I can bid on your items again. Even if eBay tightens security and says that no one can see the info anymore, I hope you will simply stick with the open auction policy from now on.
As I've stated for years, I don't even know WHY eBay allows private anything. Especially private feedback. It is contrary to the public interest. -- JR ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Hershenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 22:32 Subject: [MOPO] semi-private auctions > Why we no longer have "Private" Auctions > > Since 2001, all of our major auctions on eBay have been "private" > auctions, and since 2005 all of our weekly auctions have been > "private" as well. We THOUGHT (because eBay specifically said so!) > that this meant that NO ONE (other than we the seller, and the > individual bidders) could see who was bidding on each auction. We > THOUGHT we were protecting our customers from the many scam artists > who try to sell eBay'ers items they don't have through fake "second > chance offers", and many other online scams. But we have just now > discovered that many thousands of eBay "developers" can view the > bidders on "private" auctions, and, worse yet, there are one or more > websites that share this information with their users. THEREFORE, WE > ARE ABANDONING THESE "PRIVATE" AUCTIONS (which were always really > "semi-private"!) AND WE ARE RETURNING TO REGULAR EBAY AUCTIONS, WHICH > MEANS ALL EBAY USERS CAN SEE ALL THE BIDDERS ON ALL OF OUR AUCTIONS. > We can't imagine anyone using these so-called "private" auctions, > under these conditions. > > Bruce Hershenson > eMoviePoster.com > > P.S. The current 393 items we added include a LOT of really excellent > and rare items! > > A001 Sherlock Holmes in Washington 40x60 > A002-a006 James Bond tri-folded three-sheets and six-sheets > A007-a009 James Dean three-sheets > A010-a016 trifolded three-sheets > A017-a018 oddly folded three-sheets > A019-a020 trifolded six-sheets > A021-a022 special unfolded posters > A023-a024 bus stops > A025-a030 English 40x60s > A031-a164 Belgian posters > A165-a224 40x60s > A225-a318 30x40s > A319-a393 British Quads > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ > How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > > Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > > The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
