Ebay Security Update – Making Winning Bidder IDs Anonymous
Latest eBay site changes, as quoted on ebay.co.uk:
06 May, 2009 | 10:32AM BST
In November 2006 we made bidder IDs anonymous on listings. This change has been very successful; research we conducted in 2007 showed a 90% reduction in fake second chance offers and other malicious emails.
To bring eBay.co.uk and eBay.ie in line with other global eBay sites, and to increase security for sellers, we will be going one step further and extending anonymous User IDs to winning bidders as well.
This change will be implemented this week.
As always, the following information will still be accessible:
- Sellers will be able to view all bidder IDs on their listings
- All members can click on the bidder ID and view the bidder’s Bid History page, which will detail the categories in which they’ve bid over the past 30 days.
- Feedback pages will show the same information as now – buyers and seller IDs, with comments visible to all.
Regards,
The eBay Team
Hi Paul, like the blog. Not sure whether you are a masterclass student and if so why I haven’t got this site on my list?? Maybe if you tell me your surname it might help? I will visit again.
Enjoy the journey.
Mandy
Hi Mandy,
No I’m not on John’s masterclass course, as much as I would of liked to sign up for it, it was a bit out of my price range. I’ve been following John Thornhill for quite a few years, & I found your blog link on his PlanetSMS blog.
Thanks for the comment, I will more than likely visit your blog again in the future, good luck with your online endeavours.
Paul.
it is really hard to build massive traffic on a website. you need to promote your website by blog commenting or PPC advertising~*-