what are the advantages and disadvantages to letting Allow buyers to remain anonymous to other eBay

[jond1956]

what are the advantages and disadvantages to letting Allow buyers to remain anonymous to other eBay users

[emerald40]

Benefit

When I bought something I used to get unsolicited emails from other sellers telling me that they have similar items up for auction.

Also, I once outbid at the last ninute another buyer and she send me a nasty email.

[sockmonkeydave]

@jond1956

I don't want my co-workers knowing I buy silk undies on ebay ????

For I am a man, who has delicate skin.

[southern*sweet*tea]

Makes no nevermind to me, I don't look at buyer feedback. They pay, I mail.

[*help_no_brakes*]

I know I am not answering your question...however...

Did you not like the answers you received 10 months ago & are you going to come back to this thread & clarify what/why you are asking?

[bibi-gun]

I thought that this time of year it might be a good thing as far as kids checking to see if you got their want item,but yall got good points

[ted_200]

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@jond1956 wrote:

what are the advantages and disadvantages to letting Allow buyers to remain anonymous to other eBay users

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It's great for shill bidders.  It's also great for masking fraudulent activity, and great for making it impossible to determine the associated ID's engaged in fraudulent activity.  It's also great for preventing sellers from blocking the IDs of serial partial refund scammers, and preventing sellers from blocking the IDs of buyers who are actually other sellers who habitiually buy from and trash their competitors.

I don't want my co-workers knowing I buy silk undies on ebay ????

For I am a man, who has delicate skin.

That's what sock puppet sock monkey IDs are for.  So long as you don't give your co-workers the ID, and don't buy and sell your own stuff on your other ID, they'll never know it's you. 

[lex-talon]

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@emerald40 wrote:

Benefit

When I bought something I used to get unsolicited emails from other sellers telling me that they have similar items up for auction.

Also, I once outbid at the last ninute another buyer and she send me a nasty email.

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She must have been a sore loser.😅

[18704d]

I want my local grocery store to tell me the names of others who bought there today

and how much they spent, and what exactly they bought.

Because we all really need such information.

Right?

Lynn

[ersatz_sobriquet]

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@sockmonkeydave wrote:

@jond1956

I don't want my co-workers knowing I buy silk undies on ebay ????

For I am a man, who has delicate skin.

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@sockmonkeydave

Pictures for proof please. 😉 

[ted_200]

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@18704d wrote:

I want my local grocery store to tell me the names of others who bought there today

and how much they spent, and what exactly they bought.

Because we all really need such information.

Right?

Lynn

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That's just great for the grocery store, or for Amazon.  Buyers and sellers are distinct groups there.  And there are no auctions there.  eBay is something different, and they used to have some musings hanging around here about the benefits of two-way transparent feedback.  This was particularly true in view of the "only a venue" position eBay took.  The grocery store and Amazon don't do that.   eBay can claim they're now a "managed marketplace", but they don't do very well with the managing, and then they still claim they're "only a venue" when it benefits them. 

[sockmonkeydave]

@ted_200

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@ted_200 wrote:

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@jond1956 wrote:

what are the advantages and disadvantages to letting Allow buyers to remain anonymous to other eBay users

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It's great for shill bidders.  It's also great for masking fraudulent activity, and great for making it impossible to determine the associated ID's engaged in fraudulent activity.  It's also great for preventing sellers from blocking the IDs of serial partial refund scammers, and preventing sellers from blocking the IDs of buyers who are actually other sellers who habitiually buy from and trash their competitors.

I don't want my co-workers knowing I buy silk undies on ebay ????

For I am a man, who has delicate skin.

That's what sock puppet sock monkey IDs are for.  So long as you don't give your co-workers the ID, and don't buy and sell your own stuff on your other ID, they'll never know it's you. 

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SOCK PUPPET,   I AM NO PUPPET !!!

I am the one and only, Sock Monkey Dave.

( I got a thank you from the Donald for my 5 buck contribution,

it was addressed to Mr. Sock, )

Oh snort, I called CS a couple years back, the girl ask my email address.

She looked me up and said "you are Sock Monkey Dave"

Beer sprayed on my computer screen, 

yes honey, you are talking to the Sock.

Every computer I have ever owned was named "Skippy" work group "Skip co".

They say there are meds that will make me normal...

But I like being un normal.

[yuzuha]

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@emerald40 wrote:

Also, I once outbid at the last ninute another buyer and she send me a nasty email.

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Nastygrams used to be a thing in a lot of collectibles categories where there was a high level of competition for items.  I used to be an avid animation art collector where the pieces were quite literally one of a kind and believe me, people could get NASTY about being outbid.

[sockmonkeydave]

@ersatz_sobriquet

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@ersatz_sobriquet wrote:

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@sockmonkeydave wrote:

@jond1956

I don't want my co-workers knowing I buy silk undies on ebay ????

For I am a man, who has delicate skin.

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@sockmonkeydave

Pictures for proof please. 😉 

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I feel fat today, and I can't fit into a size 3,

There is an empty 5 lb bag of chocolate, and beer bottles all in my room.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1wqvyBH5Ls

[the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth]

It is nobody else’s business what I buy. Back in the day people would try to intercept sales and I would get begging emails from people who lost. Some sellers would contact bidders on other auctions and siphon them off. I got many nastygrams. I was also relentlessly bidstalked because I was willing to put in the time to find the deals.

if you don’t trust the auction process don’t use it. Transparency is mostly used by people for nefarious purposes. I like it much better now.