EBAY Bidder IDs?

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Posted By: <b>joe</b><p>This is how ebay is showing bidder id's now?<br /><br />s**s, f**f, b**b.<br /><br />What the heck is going on?<br /><br />Joe<br><br>Ty Cobb, Spikes flying!

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Posted By: <b>Steve Murray</b><p>b**s

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>I was wondering about that too, just how they came up with those codes. Those letters stand for some part of the username, and I would think if someone kept track of them a bidder would lose his anonymity. While you are bidding your name comes up coded, but if you win it shows up in full.

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Posted By: <b>Steve Murray</b><p>The letters do not correspond in any way to actual id's.

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Posted By: <b>Jeff Lichtman</b><p>I think the only part that is accurate is the feedback number.

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Posted By: <b>Tony Andrea</b><p>Hi Steve -<br />I have noticed a handful of fellow board members id's<br />linked to auctions I have bid on. Most recent the E106's that<br />ended a few days ago.<br /><br />edited to say - after going back to check, some seem to be scrambled<br />more than others?? Some though are pretty easy to match up. Weird...<br />

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>I think I checked once and I thought the two visible letters showed up in the bidder's username.<br /><br />I am curious to know what my harrywright username looks like in their code, but when I am logged in I can only see my full name, not the code.

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Posted By: <b>Steve Murray</b><p>Tell me what you're bidding on and I'll check. <img src="/images/wink.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />You are right though that the hidden id's did in fact contain part of the actual id. That lasted a while but they changed it about 30 days ago and now the id's are jibberish.

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Posted By: <b>Matt</b><p>anyone know if those results also get dropped when you do a search by bidder ID on closed items? Can you see items where that person bid even though the user ID is masked?

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Steve- I'm not bidding on anything now but I won something several weeks ago (not baseball) and it was over $200. If I gave you the number would that work?<br /><br />The # is 150153856776. I don't buy very much on ebay.

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Posted By: <b>Tony Andrea</b><p>After doing a bit more searching, seems to me that you can still look up<br />what a certain member might have been outbid on and still see their user id <br />clearly, as long as the item ended under $200 bucks.<br />Anything that end's over that amount though isn't available to view and no<br />record is kept under that user's name, unless their the high bidder of course.<br />In that case their entire user id will display.

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Posted By: <b>Steve Murray</b><p>No it would not work on a closed auction. The winner's actual id will show. It has to be a current auction when the high bid is over $200.

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Thanks Steve. I kind of figured that and I never bid before the last half minute, so I guess I won't know.

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Posted By: <b>David Goff</b><p>It looks like eBay dropped the bidder1 thing if an item went over $200 and went to d**s way...<br /><br />"That's not good for business"<br />"That's not good for anyone"<br />-Seinfeld-