Well, for one; I try not to purposely bid against some of my other phono friends that live in my same town. It isn't that there is a problem bidding against someone you know, I just choose to not do it as a courtesy to my friends. This change eliminates that possibility. I also know who many of the real phono ebay users are. It makes me feel better when legit folks are bidding. And, I see no value to anyone in this change. It's stupid.
Dan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich" <[email protected]> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 10:48 AM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Protected Bidding on ebay! > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
