It would be interesting to see how much prices are inflated by people who always bid on certain items.

I've never used the feature before how do you do it exactly?

That said, I'm buying tons of stuff from the same seller and getting some good deals. I am not sure I would want that info posted or someone else may start fighting with me for the rare bits that slip through.

would people be okay with posting their EBay I'ds?

Icar wrote:I've never used the feature before how do you do it exactly?

Its as simple as posted above.  Do an "advanced" Ebay search.  Search by bidder, enter their Ebay ID, and select completed auctions.

Icar wrote:would people be okay with posting their EBay I'ds?

I think we have a list somewhere on the forum of many user's IDs.

MetamorphosisSigma wrote:
It took me a minute to figure out to what that jab was referring. Evidently you remember my purchase history better than I do.

I don't see how being happy about a good deal and posting about it is out of line, and I certainly don't think there was anything wrong with purchasing an item someone undervalued slightly (they were hardly worth $100, maybe $20), especially with a BiN. I never said the seller was stupid to list them at that amount, and they were described adequately. I happened to get lucky and catch the listings about 5 minutes after they was posted. If that makes me a vulture, so be it. Or is it just that we're not supposed to appear to be vultures?

I don't see the issue.  The only reason I can think of to want to maintain the disconnect is when commenting on auctions here, trying to dissuade or otherwise try to get people to NOT bid on things you want to get an advantage or thin the bidder pool.  Which I don't see a whole lot of going on.  Conversely, if you are bidding up items to inflate thier sale value, more power to you.  If you are playing that game, you are gonna get screwed sooner or later, and probably more often than not.  Which is fine with me, as long as you are paying for the items you win.

All in all, just don't see why its worth getting bent out of shape about.

And if catching a badass deal just after its listed and snapping it up is being a dick, then I am at least in the top 10.  Probably 5.  But I'm sure I've overpaid more than twice whatever I've saved on other stuff I wanted.

Mars wrote:
If you know someone's Ebay ID, all you have to do is do an advanced search and plug in the ID. It will show you all of their purchases for a period of time.

Yikes. I've got four pages of stuff  

Buying cheaper stuff than aneoth though.  

You must have a great collection of old school goodies Gnat, nothing to be ashamed of. Especially here. Some smart buys.  

It use to be a good way to find items.  You get to know the Ebay IDs of people you generally bid against and can then cyberstalk them.

They probably let you do this because it is a public auction house.  It lets sellers check out potential buyers (such is in a make best offer BIN), etc.

faro wrote:We've posted lists of winners from Paul's auctions in the past and I don't recall anyone making such a statement then. Ditto on the back-patting for bargain buys and suchlike.

It's a dick move and you know it. Paul's auctions are publicly promoted, any else on here can choose to list their buying history if they wish. Why don't you list yours, David?

Mike B.

Chucho68 wrote:Erased. Sorry, Gnat.
Hector.

Thank you Hector.

Ebay is so hypcritical. They hide IDs for bidding so you can't offer a phony 2nd buyer option, but this basically gives the green light to seller fraud (phony bidders, etc).  Then again they allow anyone anywhere to see your entire buying history.  Weird.

It just reinforces the fact no one anywhere needs to know your ebay id.  Heck, I've got a "secret" id I use for buying only that I've had for over 10 years, no one has discovered it yet    

Mike B.

Badmike wrote:It's a dick move and you know it.

If posting public information results in fewer hyperbolic statements (two within one day) such as "reselling items from that Dragon lot is the ONLY way someone like me could afford to buy it" and "and also as a collector with limited cash flow, I am not likely to buy other copies of this book" (on a ~$40 purchase) I'm cool with that. Worth checking out some of those sellers for "fun finds", too.

There are many collectors/gamers whose purchase budget is $25/month, if that, rather than 100 times as much and I don't recall them complaining anything like as much about "not being able to afford things".
Well, 'cept for some in the OSR crowd complaining about the price of OD&D boxes and using that as an excuse to justify pirating WHFRP 1e/2e *g*

Badmike wrote:Paul's auctions are publicly promoted,

I could imagine there are still people who might've been similarly "upset" by the likes of viewtopic.php?p=25718#25718 (spivminder, for one? ^^)

Badmike wrote:any else on here can choose to list their buying history if they wish. Why don't you list yours, David?

For the same period? As you wish. The good thing about the eBay system as it's currently set up is that you can usually also see who's won anything you've bid on. Much easier than playing "recognise the feedback score" or "hunt the feedback comments" (all also public domain, of course).

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