vidpro2
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posted on May 20, 2001 06:35:29 AM
I'm doing a quick survey to see how many user ID's the average eBay user has and what they use them for.
http://websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/5852/auctionsurvey.htm
It shouldn't take more than 3-5 minutes. I'll post the results in this forum when I'm done tabulating them.
Thanks!
vidpro2
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BlondeSense
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posted on May 20, 2001 10:42:08 AM
Three. I had one for selling and one for buying, but my mother and two sisters are on ebay and I would get comments like "Oh, I see you are interested in so-and-so", or "That looked like a nice lamp you picked up on ebay", so I started a third one I'm not telling them about for some privacy.
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dubyasdaman
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posted on May 20, 2001 12:44:40 PM
2 for selling.
1 for buying.
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eventer
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posted on May 20, 2001 01:00:57 PM
Three so far.
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fonze
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posted on May 20, 2001 01:03:54 PM
Just the one. I don't buy, I have to much stuff I need to get rid of.
fonze
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dman3
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posted on May 20, 2001 01:05:25 PM
I find it only take one account to get the job done.
http://www.Dman-N-Company.com
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vidpro2
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posted on May 20, 2001 02:01:29 PM
Getting some really interesting results in this survey...thanks for the responses!
vidpro2
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skip555
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posted on May 20, 2001 02:17:58 PM
are you going to share the results with us ??
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eastwest
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posted on May 20, 2001 02:27:36 PM
25 accounts
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reddeer
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posted on May 20, 2001 02:29:34 PM
I forget? More than 3, less than 10. 
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RainyBear
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posted on May 20, 2001 02:40:45 PM
Two. I buy and sell using both. My relatives only know about one of them, though, so I can buy Christmas presents and, um, sell Christmas presents with the second ID.
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vidpro2
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posted on May 20, 2001 02:55:08 PM
skip555 absolutely! No sense in keeping data to ourselves 
Is everyone actually completing the survey or just posting it here. I can only cross-tabulate the results if they're done in the context of the survey.
I figure I should have the results either late this week or very early next.
Thanks!
vidpro2
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uaru
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posted on May 20, 2001 03:21:57 PM
several
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saabsister
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posted on May 20, 2001 03:39:37 PM
Three. I share one of these with my husband - we use it to buy and sell. I have two others that I use for buying.
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redskinfan
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posted on May 20, 2001 03:43:28 PM
I have had over 200 but I can't remember them all offhand. I now only use 2 of them though.
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Microbes
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posted on May 20, 2001 03:55:52 PM
This is why you take eBay's "19 million registered users" with a grain of salt.
Oh, I have just one.
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patscouch
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posted on May 20, 2001 03:58:45 PM
I have anywhere from 15 to 20 active at any one time. i use one for buying and selling and the rest are used for an elaborate shilling system i have devised.........Ya gotta love it!!!
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SNowYegReT
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posted on May 20, 2001 04:54:43 PM
2
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toke
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posted on May 20, 2001 05:15:49 PM
I'm curious...who are you doing the survey for? What's the purpose?
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SquibBooks
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posted on May 20, 2001 05:53:50 PM
It's the ebay police, trying to get rid of Mom & Pop's. That's why I have 3, no one will know who I am!!
LOL!!
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celeste
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posted on May 20, 2001 05:59:49 PM
5 - for various reasons.
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beachbound
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posted on May 20, 2001 06:13:16 PM
Who is "ourselves".....and what's the purpose of the "survey"?
Identify yourself. Credentials? How many IDs do you have?
Just like those annoying dinnertime telephone surveys. I say, "Why"?....and, have a nice day! No personal info given.
Heck, if you read the boards, you already know our life histories.
Have a nice day
Beachbound here only
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shaani
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posted on May 20, 2001 06:20:55 PM
So many ID's, so little time.
Some we sell with, some we buy with, some are just there because we wanted the name.
We use 3 or 4 or 5 most of the time.
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vidpro2
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posted on May 20, 2001 06:28:33 PM
LOL, no eBay Police, no eBay affiliation. Just writing an article about what people use multiple ID's for. Wanted to quantify the numbers.
beachbound hope I didn't come across like a telemarketer. Sorry if I did.
vidpro2
http://www.auctionbytes.com
(my affiliation)
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DDICffe
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posted on May 20, 2001 06:47:18 PM
I use several, either for selling, buying or just because I/my wife liked the name. And we use the same ones everywhere. We do, after all, like to keep some things personal (esp. GIFT BUYING!!! )
Rick
In the begining, God created the heavens and the earth.
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outoftheblue
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posted on May 20, 2001 08:02:22 PM
Just 1 id that I've used sice Oct of 1998.
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mtnmama
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posted on May 20, 2001 08:15:58 PM
I have one official one used for buying and selling and one fun one used sometimes (rarely) for posting on the boards. It's the spanish version of my ID that someone gave me. I haven't used it in so long, I almost forgot I had it!
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AnonymousCoward
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posted on May 20, 2001 11:04:29 PM
two in all
one for selling and buying
the other for buying exclusively.
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twinsoft
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posted on May 20, 2001 11:51:05 PM
I have two. I do all my buying and selling with one account. The second is for VeRO.
eBay requires VeRO (that is, VeRO Plus) members to maintain an About Me page. Since I VeRO somebody infrequently (maybe once a year), I don't want that VeRO stuff up on my primary About Me page. (Can you imagine logging onto a seller's About Me page and reading, "that's why I nailed your auction, you two-bit loser, etc.?" It would be a waste of my About Me page and insulting to my customers.)
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jwpc
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posted on May 21, 2001 07:44:07 AM
Personally, perhaps I a paranoid, but I am not comfortable in answering such surveys when I don't know for a fact who is behind them, and what type of clandestine information their site may collect on me while I answer their survey.
Sorry, can't respond to such.
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