On 5/5/2014 10:44 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
Now that eBay obscures bidder identity, how can one
know that this certain individual has placed a bid?
The way I deduce identities is
to look at auctions where i'm interested
in an individual. If they win the auction, and leave feedback, i can
get their ID from the feedback.
From there on I go with them as "mr 762" or such where the feedback
count gives them away.
Just go to you list of identities and double check the count.
I don't know who Chuck is referring to, but I know of three people in
the category (and one who doesn't bid on ebay to my knowledge) that can
buy anything they like. I knew the Id's from the counts of a couple of
them as certain things were put up for sale for a while and they
vacuumed them up. I still peruse their buys for pointers to sales.
the sales I don't want to interfere with, but sellers frequently have no
clue of what they are selling. So when someone finds something I'm
interested in I like to look at the things they buy to get ideas for
new search formulas.
A few of the scientific gizmos I like to troll for people don't have any
idea what the proper name is or the description, and I've found a few by
following this strategy.
Jim