It seems to me that it will not do much good to discuss this only on Phono-L. You all need to state your displeasure to Ebay itself. That is not an easy task since Ebay makes it very difficult to send something directly to them. If anyone knows a good way to send them your comments please share it with the rest of us. I have commented on the new policy on one of the chat boards but there is no way to know if Ebay pays much attention to that. I make heavy use of the bidder info to protect myself as both a buyer and seller. Ebay has shown themselves to be incapable of protecting the buyers and sellers from the abuses that have been discussed here. I believe the policy is purely profit based and they could care less about the rest of us. Unless they can guarantee protection to buyers and sellers from the abuses that are rampent on Ebay, then they should not remove about the only way we have to protect ourselves.
Ken Walt wrote: >Rich, > >This concern may have been best addressed by Michael (Funk) last evening. He >wrote in part: "check out some of the ebay discussions boards on this >subject." > >Those boards, despite some of the irrational and subjective peanut-gallery >noisemakers you will see, are the best place to find others who, probably >like me, you, and so many other genuinely responsible and decent folks in >Phono-L, really do have a focused and genuine concern for how these changes >affect eBay users in general. > >Now...If eBay were to implement a truly democratic process rather than a >dictatorship, I would vote for Loran Hughes to be president. Hey...Maybe >that would be a good fundraiser for the coming years: A bumper sticker that >reads, "Loran Hughes is MY President". But in the meantime, don't forget >what Inspector Harry Callahan (a.k.a Clint Eastwood - one of the guys who >used to be on the bumper sticker that we are going to put Loran on) said in >the 1973 movie, Magnum Force: > >"A man's got to know his limitations." > >Walt > > > From [email protected] Wed Jan 17 10:48:58 2007 From: [email protected] (Rich) Date: Wed Jan 17 10:49:09 2007 Subject: [Phono-L] Protected Bidding on ebay! In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> The bidder information is available to the seller. It is ONLY converted to Bidder 1 etc. for the other bidders. I might be missing something here, so please clarify, if you would. What exactly does knowing the bidders actual eBay user IDs provide to you as regards "protection" that Bidder 1 etc. does not? Rich On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:25:07 -0500, Ken Danckaert wrote: >It seems to me that it will not do much good to discuss this only on >Phono-L. You all need to state your displeasure to Ebay itself. That >is not an easy task since Ebay makes it very difficult to send something >directly to them. If anyone knows a good way to send them your comments >please share it with the rest of us. I have commented on the new policy >on one of the chat boards but there is no way to know if Ebay pays much >attention to that. I make heavy use of the bidder info to protect >myself as both a buyer and seller. Ebay has shown themselves to be >incapable of protecting the buyers and sellers from the abuses that >have been discussed here. I believe the policy is purely profit based >and they could care less about the rest of us. Unless they can >guarantee protection to buyers and sellers from the abuses that are >rampent on Ebay, then they should not remove about the only way we have >to protect ourselves. >Ken
