Deadlord39 wrote:Sotheby's doesn't have shillers. That would be "why not eBay".
Traveller wrote:Honestly, I think it's long overdue. Genuine auction houses like Sotheby's don't use names, but numbers. So why not ebay? As a consequence, they had to remove the active bids from the options in the items by bidder link. I just don't see any of this as that big a deal.
bclarkie wrote:This is the biggest load of F**king Bull S**t that I have ever seen in my entire life on Ebay. Let's face it, this was not done to protect anyone's idenity, it was done so Ebay can secretly do away with thier shilling policy under the facade of protecting their bidders idenity from phishing emails. Ebay has probably just realized that it would be a good business decision to allow sellers to shill the hell out of thier auctions because it just means more and more fees for them to collect. Everything else that they try to say is just a crock of f**king sh*t. Ebay can go f**k themselves for all I care. At this point its the only viable option, but come hell or highwater, the nano-second a suitable competitor comes along, Ebay will never ever ever see another penny from me again.
MShipley88 wrote:Also, isn't there a difference between a slowdown in the growth of profits and a loss of profits?
bclarkie wrote:Ebay has probably just realized that it would be a good business decision to allow sellers to shill the hell out of thier auctions because it just means more and more fees for them to collect.
MShipley88 wrote:Is this possibly a way for Ebay to cut into sniping? I would think that it would be best for Ebay if they stopped all sniping activity.