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Posted By: Larry

Tony-

The reason you see the variation is simple:
UNDER $200 items- they do not hide
OVER $200-they hide
This is obvious that e bay only concerns themselves with higher priced items to "protect" the public.

You can call e bay if you are a power seller, if not, you e mail their trust and safety department.

If they really were protecting us from fraud, they could disable the link of 2nd highest bidders after an auction ended but instead you can still make an offline deal directly with seller anyway to end early... so the key here is the coding really keeps deals made with underbidders for items where the seller has more than one example: Car CD players that sell for $300 and the seller has 7, he could contact bidder 2-6 and sell them directly, that is stopped due to the loss of income for e bay. Maybe they did stop some 2nd chance fraud but they could have done it a different way. Hope that Helps....