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Post Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 11:54 pm 
 

Anyone have any tricks left to figure out a buyer's username after an auction ends?  Or has ebay completely scrambled all that at this point?


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Post Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 7:25 am 
 

I can speak from the perspective of the eBay API - the only way to get the username is if you yourself are the seller.  There may be other devious tricks that somebody will pipe up with, but programatically, eBay has obscured it.

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Post Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 9:45 am 
 

TheHistorian wrote in eBay username decoding:Anyone have any tricks left to figure out a buyer's username after an auction ends?  Or has ebay completely scrambled all that at this point?


you used to be able to find out through a sellers feedback but I think they've gotten that one obscured as well as now


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Post Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 3:33 pm 
 

Other than playing spot the pattern and trawl the feedback, the easiest option is still usually the "token bid" approach. Place a no-hoper bid at auction start and insert your username to your finished auctions list at the end to see who won;
Code:
cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidItems&all=1&_rdc=1&userid=YOURUSERNAME&&rows=200&completed=1&sort=3&guest=1

It doesn't work for all sales - exclusions for private sales, high value sales depending on context, etc., but can be useful - kidzjesman on that recent 2nd print Chainmail, a very familiar alt on the Minotaur just before, etc. Some rather surprising OCE buyers, too. :)


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