[Milsurplus] Re: [AILtech] Re: [TekScopes2] eBay Hiding IDs does NOT Work

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Bid schilling has nothing to do with bidder ID harvesting. I agree completely 
with Chuck. Bidder ID hiding can't and wasn't intended to do anything about 
someone stealing the information in a legitiment auction and running it as 
though it were their own. The two problems are totally unrelated. There is no 
doubt, as obnoxious as it is, that bidder ID hiding achieved it's primary purpose.

n a message dated 6/15/2008 10:41:47 PM Central Daylight Time, jfor at quik.com 
writes: 
> My point is that a seller can crib an auction, set it up as a fake and 
> harvest
> the bidders IDs available now only to the seller, and then send out phony
> offers. Their policy has made it much harder to detect schilling at the 
> expense
> of a trivial increase in security for second chance offers.
> 


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