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AtomSmasher:

--- Quote from: shmokes on February 29, 2012, 12:36:23 am ---Those six initial bids were at first a little alarming. They come from three users, each of whose usernames consist of a single letter, followed by four asterisks, and then another letter. Like o****o. Or maybe it's three asterisks. Anyway, they all follow the same convention. Which obviously can't be a coincidence. And anything that's not a coincidence is pretty much for sure a scam. But the users have high possitive feedback scores, one with like 600 transactions. Then it occured to me that maybe I'm just not a hardcore collector, cos serious collectors all creat a username that is the equivalent of a Pez dispenser emoticon. Like, first initial is the head, asterisks the body, and your last initial the feet. Anyway, hopefully that's it and I have nothing to worry about. The guy's 600 transactions seem to be exclusively buying and selling Pez, so it's probably all legit.



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Ebay obscures the actual names of the bidders, so that is all you will ever see for the bidders (until theres I winning bid I suppose, where I assume you'll see the full username of the winner).

shmokes:
Have they always done that? I'm not a huge Ebayer, but I guess I've bought and sold 40 or 50 things on Ebay and I've always checked out the bidders page to sate my curiosity about bidding war. I'm pretty surprised if they've been doing this all along and this is the first time I've noticed it.

Vigo:
I think it has been a couple years now that has been in place. I find it annoying, and it is one of the reasons I don't use ebay as much these days. I used to check out bidders on items I was interested in, see how the bidding went with that person on previous auctions and based my bidding on that. I could routinely win items for a decent price. The minute they started blocking all user info away, I started losing and making poor bids....  :banghead:

HaRuMaN:
Just put your bid in during the last 3 seconds...  I've won a lot of auctions that way.   :applaud:

Vigo:
Well, I do that, but I don't like losing when it is something hard to find, I don't have the money to toss out the high bids either. The last second bid leaves no room to bid again If I went too low. When I see bidding history, I can usually get a handle on what I should bid. But you are right...last second bidding is still the surest method. My mojo has just been off since they changed methods. My last auction I second guessed myself, left 30 seconds as a "just in case" safety, and ended up overpaying $200 on an old CP because the defending high bidder was really agressive. I was looking for that part for 7 years, so I am glad I got it, but damn it stung when I realized how much I paid for an old water damaged hunk of wood.  :banghead:

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