From: Lyle Bickley <lbickley at bickleywest.com>
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If
everyone on this list wrote eBay - believe me, they would pay
attention...
Lyle
Hi
While I believe there are good reasons to not post the buyers name
that would the best interest of the sellers. I've seen several posted
in this group. Things such as not bidding against friends or writing
leters to others to make deals on sharing the items are specifically
against eBay rules.
I find the most offensive aspect is that there is now no way for
us to identify Shill bidders. In the past we could look for history
of bidders. Several times I spotted obvious Shills. I reported these
to eBay but I doubt much was done.
I have contacted bidders through the seller several times because
I'm not sure my messages were actually delivered. Most times, I
am only interested in sharing information with the buyer. This
is especially true for the rarer machines. Most times I provide valuable
information and a few times, information I'm looking for is sent
back. Only a couple times have I contacted an individual to sell
an item. In these cases, it was specific items that based on the
purchase, the buyer would be most interested in.
While in these cases, I could have sold the item through eBay,
I was more interested in getting these items to the person I
knew would need them and only sold to recover my original
cost.
I can still use the contact through the seller method but catching
shills is no longer possible.
I believe if eBay wanted to really fix things, they could keep the same
type of reports they used to have and simply has a fixed random
number permanently assigned to each bidder. ID's would remain
hidden and one could still look at history of bidders.
Dwight
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