15 Apr
2013
15 Apr
'13
12:31 a.m.
On Sun, 14 Apr 2013, Paul Hagstrom wrote:
On Apr 14, 2013, at 9:20 PM, Jim Stephens <jws at
jwsss.com> wrote:
The two letters in the obscured userid can be in any order and from
anywhere in the normalized userid and the same letter could even be used
twice.
On 4/14/2013 5:30 PM, mc68010 wrote:
It is indeed relatively easy to find people's eBay IDs with some
patience, since the obscured ID still contains two accurate letters (in
reverse order, I believe, at least in all the cases I've found) but an
accurate feedback number (which changes, so the delta can also be
checked over time), so looking through feedback for likely
buyers/sellers who might have interacted with them for matching feedback
numbers often can un-obscure the eBay ID. I did that for a while trying
to help someone track down where some stuff from an auctioned storage
space went, and just for curiosity to see who keeps winning against me. On 4/14/2013 5:12 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
>> Someone *must* have cracked the ebay database...
THey can contact me if they can guess my ebay id. but it is worlds
away from anything i use for email. I think MIke's point was it was an
ebay looking approach @ his email address. I get my email from ebay
thru a distantly related oddball server and then respond thru ebay
messages. Unless i reply thru there or send my email address by
replying to a message from my main email I will never get email there
that is legit.
The other way to discover ID's by the way which I'm using is to watch
feedback to sellers who don't like. BUt that still only gives an ebay
ID unless you happen to associate your ebay ID with an email address
somewhere.