Thursday, November 23, 2006

eBay Rolls Out 'Safeguarding ID' System to UK Site

eBay is rolling out its new "Safeguarding Member IDs" project to the UK site after launching it on the U.S. Motors site earlier this month. The new feature reduces the transparency of bidding activity for shoppers in an effort to fight scammers who employ spoof phishing techniques, and eBay may roll out the change to eBay.com in early 2007.

eBay is implementing the new system on eBay.co.uk listings with a high bid of £100 or greater. The bid information for listings where the bid is lower than £100 will continue to display as it always had.
Read More http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y06/m11/i23/s01

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