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Safeguarding Member IDs
Updated 12/15/2006: Anonymized bidding information in certain listings is now available for testing in the Sandbox environment along with API documentation. API updates supporting this enhancement are still expected to go live in early January 2007.
Developers building applications using eBay Web Services APIs should be aware of a new enhancement coming, Safeguarding Member IDs. Safeguarding Member IDs is a new approach to auction-style listings that offers more privacy for our members through changing how bidding information is displayed. We will be implementing this new system via our Web services APIs on listings with a high bid of $200 or greater, which is where we believe it can have the greatest positive impact. The bid information for listings where the bid is lower than $200 will display as it does today.
Developer Impact: API updates supporting this enhancement, including Motors, are expected to go live in early 2007. We will keep developers updated on timelines if we are required go live earlier.
Developers should read the Announcement Board post for further details about this enhancement.
November 6, 2006 in Product News | Permalink
Comments
This will ruin all the Second Chance systems. Good job.
Posted by: vladuz | Nov 9, 2006 11:54:45 AM
Hi vladuz
We often face a challenging balance between marketplace features and ensuring buyers have a good buying experience (and keep coming back!)
If you have further comments or questions after reading our Announcement Board post in the original blog post, I encourage you to submit question a question and attend our upcoming Town Hall with Bill Cobb on November 30th.
http://pages.ebay.com/townhall/
Posted by: delyn | Nov 9, 2006 3:02:42 PM
My concern is that this will make bid shilling harder to detect for eBay users, and they may be more reluctant to bid.
This may also lead to sellers being accused of bid shilling when they are not.
I don't think that this change will prevent fake second chance fraud. The user ids will still be visible before the item reaches 200, All the fraudsters will need to do is select an item they know will reach a high price (like big screen TVs), and get the user ids before the bidding goes over 200.
Posted by: Karen Nicholas | Dec 20, 2006 5:58:05 PM
Hi Delyn,
There some discussion on the net several years ago about eBay's sophisticated algorithms that they have in place to detect and go after shill bidders. Do these really exist?
A discussion of this might make buyers more comfortable about bidding especially after the changes above are in place.
Thanks for any info,
Gary
Posted by: Gary | Jan 8, 2007 1:47:54 PM
Hi Gary,
Good suggestion - thanks. I'll submit it for the upcoming Town Hall - I believe the next one is coming in late January with representatives from our Trust & Safety leadership.
Details will be posted here and on the eBay Announcement Board:
eBay Town Hall:
http://pages.ebay.com/townhall/
eBay Announcement Board (has RSS feed):
http://www2.ebay.com/aw/marketing.shtml
Delyn
Posted by: delyn | Jan 9, 2007 9:25:03 AM
Just a note to Gary and Karen - both of your questions were submitted for the upcoming late January Town Hall.
eBay Town Hall:
http://pages.ebay.com/townhall/
eBay Announcement Board (has RSS feed):
http://www2.ebay.com/aw/marketing.shtml
Posted by: delyn | Jan 10, 2007 4:41:41 PM
Since the SMI feature has been introduced, many bidders are reluctant to bid on items that go over $200. Other bidders are annoyed at seeing Bidder 1, Bidder 2 on sellers'
auction lists when the items are UNDER $200. This is especially problematic in categories where bidders' names are familiar to one another and they like to see who's bidding. There also seems to be a problem with shill bidding in spite of whatever efforts are, or are not being made to control it. There also seems to be increased fraud on hijacked accounts. Is this how thieves adapt?
Posted by: lmarianne | Mar 17, 2007 12:55:51 PM
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