Tek 4404 documentation on eBay

In article <FF6AB92D97A23A409701CDBF66F03FCD019DC2EDAD at 505fuji>, Ian King <IanK at vulcan.com> writes: Well, knowing that I could contact other bidders or winners never influenced how much I was willing to spend or how much I bid. Instead, it allowed me to contact winners and share information with them or ask them questions about what they ended up winning. Ebay says that they undertook these measures because of fraud and abuse and while fraud and abuse were (and are) occurring, obscuring identities and preventing you from contacting people who bid on/won items is not the only solution. They could have instituted a double-blind contact system so that you could still contact winners, but neither party would know the identity of the other in the communication unless they chose to reveal it. In other words, they could have solved the problem without fracturing the community. But essentially ebay has decided that they are only a community of sellers and that buyers are second class citizens. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com/the-direct3d-graphics-pipeline/> Legalize Adulthood! <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>