posted on September 8, 2007 10:14:00 AM
I know that eBay hides the ID of bidders on items over $200 but while checking an item that is currently $18.50 I found the bidders were, h***r, r***a, and r***r and the feedback numbers are not links. Is this a new policy? The stated policy on the bid page still says "higher-priced items" so maybe things are so bad on eBay that $18.50 is considered higher priced.
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
posted on September 8, 2007 11:16:24 AM
Well, that is interesting! I don't have anything with bids right now or I would check it out on mine. Scary thought that $18.50 is 'higher priced'.
posted on September 8, 2007 02:43:52 PM
I just found another auction for about $58 (reserve not met) with the same *** instead of the bidder ID. Also found a high dollar auction with ***. As I remember in the past those auctions showed bidder 1, bidder 2, etc.
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
posted on September 8, 2007 05:33:41 PM
I suspect the high bidder on these reserve auctions has made a proxy bid of more than $200, but not enough to meet the reserve. The underbidder has made a small bid to bring the bid showing to $18.50 or whatever. Both bidders will show anonymously in that case.
posted on September 8, 2007 07:13:10 PM
Birgittaw, that must be it. In that case I hope the $18.50 high bidder knows that what is for sale is missing half of the complete item.
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
