When did eBay start hiding the identities on feedback

I must have missed it. I was looking at someone's feedback and they were all hidden like they have for bidding. A quick check showed they are doing it for most of the people I looked at, but not all. Anyone have any info on why they are doing this or the logic of which they do?

 

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I figured out part of it. They are hiding the buyer's name, but not the seller's name.

 

Best I can tell, it's hidden for buyer feedback. Seller feedback shows the name and the item.

As for the logic, I think it's to prevent people from contacting buyers for similar items... I still wish they'd get rid of private listings... What's the point when they have everything hidden anyway?

 

I used to get messages pretty regularly from guys regarding baseball memorabilia.

 

Here is some reading on it
http://www.ecommercebytes.com/cab/abn/y13/m10/i17/s01

 

Doesn't really say much except that it was recent and unannounced so I was not asleep long.

 

What I wish eBay would do (as a seller) is give automatic positive feedback if the buyer doesn't complain and you ship out on time, and the item arrives on time. I don't see how that can be a negative or even neutral experience, yet not leaving feedback for non-professional sellers is basically the same as a neutral.

 

Not leaving feedback sends a message to seller without dragging him through the formal mud bath. Enjoy that discretion on buyer's behalf. Feel lucky that no one knows you made a sale and avoided a ding.

Just because it was shipped/arrived doesn't speak to the quality nor the 'as described' -ness. There is much more than delivery of 'something'.

How much soup do you want with that loupe?

As to the OP, I have never seen ID's hidden, only private item numbers.

 

I really doubt that most buyers who don't leave feedback are intending to leave any sort of "message." I think it much more likely that the vast majority of them are either forgetful or just too lazy to leave feedback.

 

I just noticed it on Thursday. It was a very recent change, and I think it's yet another thing that hides information from buyers that only hurts them. In the past you could do a little digging to hunt down probable shill bidders, and at least make a report. Now they are hiding even more information to keep us in the dark about stuff like that.

 

I know. That's why I wish eBay would make such situations an automatic positive. For example, if you only sell one item per month; three buyers forget to leave feedback, and your DSRs never show up.

 

I leave feedback on 50%, at best, of the items I buy. It is exactly for those two reasons, not because I'm trying to "send a message."

 

I sell a lot on eBay and count on feedback, so I guess I feel the need to leave positive feedback for good sellers.

 

i ry to leave feedback when i get the items and i am happy with them.

 

I don't sell all that much but buy quite a bit. I routinely try to leave feedback the same day I receive an item.

 

If a seller doesnt leave feedback, I don't leave feedback. As a buyer feed back should be left when their part is complete. Thats when they pay for the item. Too many sellers still try hold feedback hostage.

 

I agree with this and I tend to not leave feedback for sellers that don't provide me feedback as a buyer within a reasonable time period. I feel as a buyer my part of the sale is done once I pay for the item not after I receive the sellers item and leave them positive feedback first.

 

And I do that in practice. Virtually all buyers get positive feedback as soon as they pay (except those eBay has to tickle their memories) and only seldom does a seller get positive unless I already have one from him.