To be honest there is no particular reason to do this. This is a setting left available by eBay that had a point many years ago when eBay had a different way of showing user ids. Since I have been using eBay all user ids are masked in the form of A***B when another user looks at your items. The masking can change over time so it would be hard to someone to connect a masked id with the users real id. You can see the actual user id since eBay sees no reason to hide this information from you as the seller.
jacbarcollectibles
Mentor5 months agoTo be honest there is no particular reason to do this. This is a setting left available by eBay that had a point many years ago when eBay had a different way of showing user ids. Since I have been using eBay all user ids are masked in the form of A***B when another user looks at your items. The masking can change over time so it would be hard to someone to connect a masked id with the users real id. You can see the actual user id since eBay sees no reason to hide this information from you as the seller.