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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;umtrr-author, post: 223453, member: 5719&quot;]In terms of showing what is sold... yes, I know that in the old system, one could click on the items and read up, but that takes an effort, versus open display on screen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Imagine you&#039;re at a coin show, and have made some purchases that cost a non-trivial amount of money.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now imagine that anyone who wants to can stop you and make you tell them exactly what you bought.&nbsp;&nbsp; You can&#039;t leave for 90 days until you disclose this.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If this were a live show, how many of you would tell a total stranger, &quot;It&#039;s really none of your business what I bought or how much I paid for it?&quot;&nbsp; Sure, some of us might be more friendly than that, but <b>at our discretion.</b> The new feedback system takes that choice away; it&#039;s in black and white (or in this case, gray) what I bought, when and with a click, how much I paid for it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Sure, my eBay contact data is less available than it used to be, but given the lack of computer security it would not be a big deal for someone to cherry pick a couple of big ticket buyers and target them in some way.&nbsp; Oh, but eBay is just a venue, like classified ads, so they are completely without liability.&nbsp; Well, my local paper doesn&#039;t publish information on who bought the stuff in the ads. </p><p><br /></p><p>I can appreciate those who want to get a sense of who&#039;s shill bidding, but what happened to that algorithm that eBay claimed it had to reduce that tactic?&nbsp; Besides, shill bidding works when the shill does <b>not</b> win and so that wouldn&#039;t ever show up in a list of items purchased anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know that I&#039;m probably being paranoid about this.&nbsp; I&#039;ve already given up selling on that Internet Auction Community given the fun and games with Paypal; now I may give up buying as well, and I&#039;m not a high roller by any stretch of the imagination.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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