I had known this was coming, but eBay sent out a notification to buyers today announcing that complete user IDs will no longer be displayed on any auction format listings. Soon we will no longer display the complete user IDs of people bidding on any auction-style listing. Instead, we’ll use asterisks such as x***y to […]
eBay officially expanding anonymous bidding policy
March 4th, 2008 1 Comment
Tags: auctions · bidding · changes · eBay · identity
For Sale: Super Tuesday or, “So I guess the primaries just don’t sell so well…”
February 5th, 2008 3 Comments
Editor’s note: For Sale will be a regular feature highlighting what the auction traffic is like on eBay in relation to particular events. Every Super Tuesday, pundits and politicians stick their heads out of their holes to predict whether we’ll have four more years of partisan bickering or….four more years of partisan bickering. Always a […]
Tags: auctions · eBay · For Sale · Super Tuesday