In article <e1d20d631001061023v6b7e05b9kdd196acc8d387565 at mail.gmail.com>,
William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> writes:
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. =A0In other words, they could have solved the
problem without fracturing the community.
And then then is a huge exodus of sellers from Ebay...
There has been talk for some time about Ebay doing exactly this, and
their is FIERCE opposition from the seller community.
Well, I wasn't thinking that it would be double-blind between winner
and seller, but between third-party observer and winner.
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