Wednesday, January 17, 2007

eBay Members Fear New Policy Will Inhibit Buyer Bids

eBay's new "Safeguarding Member IDs" (SMI) policy is coming under scrutiny from users who are concerned it will decrease bidding activity on the site. In recent days, members began noticing that when they looked at an eBay auction, they were unable to see bidder User IDs once the bidding had reached $200. Some fear eBay's new policy will have the unintended consequence of increased shill bidding by dishonest sellers, as well as decreasing bidding by buyers concerned about the lack of transparency.

Read more http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y07/m01/i16/s01

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Here's what the International Ebay "Community" thinks about this new
Policy ---

United States --
http://forums.ebay.com/db1/thread.jspa?threadID=2000298866&start=0

Australia --
http://forums.ebay.com.au/thread.jspa?threadID=600037385&tstart=40&mod=1168509589066

Canada--
http://forums.ebay.ca/thread.jspa?threadID=600016601&tstart=0&mod=1168565192984

United Kingdom --
http://forums.ebay.co.uk/thread.jspa?threadID=1200060714&tstart=0&mod=1168649849421

Anonymous said...

Here's what the International Ebay "Community" thinks about this new
Policy ---

United States --
http://forums.ebay.com/db1/thread.jspa?threadID=2000298866&start=0

Australia --
http://forums.ebay.com.au/thread.jspa?threadID=600037385&tstart=40&mod=1168509589066

Canada--
http://forums.ebay.ca/thread.jspa?threadID=600016601&tstart=0&mod=1168565192984

United Kingdom --
http://forums.ebay.co.uk/thread.jspa?threadID=1200060714&tstart=0&mod=1168649849421