eBay bidder display change?

[STL]

Browsing through eBay, I noticed eBay has taken out the ability to look at who else is bidding. It just lists numbers now instead of the username. I can see the merits of that but I'm also annoyed.

In the past, it's helped me to know who I'm up against and what amounts the bidders are likely to put up so I can figure out if it's worth pursuing.

A bit annoying but I can see at least it'll also reduce the change of us knowing if we bidded against one another.

[autobreadticon]

yeah its kinda annouying, people like cosmiclad and asian syndicates sniper bidding items when they sell items where they believe they get a crap profit. So they can resell at a later time.

[Borgeman]

well there you go everyone - every man for themselves :P

George

[griffin]

That's unusual. They used to only do it for auctions that went above about $100. Maybe they got some good feedback to it, and decided to do it to all auctions.

[STL]

My biggest concern is going up against a powerseller. Basically guys who buy up big lots. I just don't want to go into a bidding war with one of them with no idea that I am. I have won against them several times but other times I just pull out cos it's just outta my tolerance.

[Soundwarp]

Wow that only just changed. My wife was bidding on Saturday and you could still see the names then.

[MV75]

Mmmm, yes, it seems to have been done across the board now.

It's become shill bidding paradise now. Have a look at a "bidder" s history, and it lists the sellers they bidded on as seller1, seller2, etc. They should have made sellers names available to figure out shills.
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[jaydisc]

I've noticed this over the last few days... this sucks.

[MV75]

I have noticed though that if you bid, they'll then show the other bidders ids at the end of auction, but all you then have to do is have private feedback on an account like the very one I just saw. The "winner" had hidden feedback.

So, any decent ebay alternatives out there?
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[1orion2many]

I'm in the middle of bidding on something in the U.K and it is still showing peoples I.D's over there at the moment. I like looking at peoples feedback to see what they have bought lately and for how much, the last couple of items I have won had people that bought a bit of everything which to me meant they were resellers of items that they could get at a low price. This gave me more confidence to bid on some items.