Why the Stupid Captcha when I'm already signed in and want to check what someone left for feedback.

[vermonter53]

Why the Stupid Captcha when I'm already signed into my account and want to check what someone left for feedback for me. Is this just another one of ebay's stupid ideas that just irritates people and has no good reason for it. Their excuse on the page makes no logical sense.  DUUHHH! I'M ALREADY SIGNED INTO MY ACCOUNT! And don't come on here with a reply to try a different browser. Ebay just needs to fix their crappy software so it works for the benefit of the sellers and stop making excuses for their failures.  The excuses they always offer are the most ridiculous lines of **bleep** I have ever heard. It in no way makes it safer on here.  Just get your act together and FIX the  MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY CONSTANT GLITHCHES !

[simply-the-best-for-you]

Sorry, you won't like my answer.   It's something with your browser or maybe you're on a VPN?  Using a VPN is likely to do it.   The vast majority of us, never see a captcha, including myself.   I think I've seen one all year & prior to that, hadn't seen one for 2-3 YEARS.  

[slati_2013]

Same thing happens to me. I do lots of research on eBay, clicking numerous listings of competitors or items I plan to sell, clicking the "sold" in the listing to see price sold for, offers accepted, when sold, clicking on feedback, and all that clicking gets eBay's cyber defenses very suspicious. If you are doing lots of clicking, that may be the reason. 

[toysaver]

I'm glad when I get asked...

Means eBay is on their toes protecting us from the evils of scammers and hackers.

[onlinecentral]

When you clear your browsing history, Unclick the Cookies.
Retaining the cookies will eliminate the Captcha puzzles.

[vermonter53]

If you were just signing into your account that would have validity but if you are already in your account and notice you have more positive FB and just want to see what it says, you should not have to prove you are a human to see it. It doesn't do anything as far as protecting us from scammers or hackers. It would make sense to have it when you first sign into your account IF you were going to have it at all. Even then your user id and pw are what proves that to the computer. 

[vermonter53]

That doesn't work for me though

[vermonter53]

I'm not on a VPN and have been using the same browser for a while. This is an annoyance that used to happen on occasion but now it seems to be a lot more frequent than in the past. No matter ebay's lame excuses of which they have plenty (although none are valid) this should not be happening when you are already signed into your account for any reason. If it occasionally asked when you were first signing into your account it would make sense but to have it to see your own FB is totally ridiculous and makes no logical sense. It has nothing to do with security on the platform because you are already on the platform.

[vermonter53]

I do a lot of the same things for research but it would be nice if they would actually fix their glitches rather than making poor excuses for their software screwups. There is no acceptable excuse for it to do this. The one thing that ebay seems to be really good at is wasting the sellers and buyers time on their platform and they don't seem to realize all of these little glitches/annoyances just drive both buyers and sellers to other venues.  Don't even get me started on the so called "search" aka garbage software they refuse to fix.

[vermonter53]

Think it's interesting that in typical ebay fashion there is no response from ebay except an email with a question, Did it solve your problem?... and a really large green link saying Mark as solution when like in most dealings with ebay, they don't really have a solution but want me to select that. I have noticed in a lot of these conversations it appears to be the same thing where someone has marked an answer as a solution when in reality there is no solution at all. Oh Well, typical ebay response. 

[laststopgeneralstore]

When I was using a VPN this would happen often and this has nothing to do with eBay's software, it's actually a security blanket to insure that your account isn't hacked so don't go around automatically blaming eBay for something that millions of sites also use. It's not a glitch or crappy software. If something that small is bothering you that much then I'd suggest starting your own website and disable all security features so that you never ever ever ever ever ever have to deal with a "glitch" again. Good luck.

[vermonter53]

I know everyone has different experiences with ebay but in the 18 years I have been on here, I have seen it get progressively worse every year and in all honesty I have never  used or been on a website that has more glitches than ebays does and the frustration mostly is because they don't seem to care or even attempt to fix the problems. I know all technology has issues but it just seems that ebay has more than their fair share. 

As far as the security of it, it actually has no benefit for security because if it happened when signing into the site, yes, but when you are already signed in and it is just going to another page on the same site it does nothing but annoy people. If it was going into your account settings especially for payments etc. then it would make good sense to do that even though you are signed in but to just look at your own feedback it would have no benefit at all.