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Frank WakefieldSB1 is right...
It reminds me of Mr. Maxwell's phone auctions of 15 years ago, or so... You'd call and bid, and he'd either say you were winning, or that you'd been outbid and what the next bid would be. While I completely trusted him, someone could just tell you that you'd been outbid even if you hadn't been...
So eBay should just go ahead and get rid of the bidder list altogether. All it is now is a facade of legitimacy. We should just list something, then in 7 days they could tell us if it sold, or not, and if so for how much to whom.
This ID change has proven to be not a small step backwards, but rather a marathon in reverse.