[time-nuts] Finding out who bidders are

[EWKehren at aol.com]

I recognie certain bidders by the number of buys. Bert
 
 
In a message dated 9/2/2009 7:07:41 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
fortime at bellsouth.net writes:

The  "Bidder Code" letters also changes, it is not fixed on a given users  
id.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rex"  <rexa at sonic.net>
To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency  measurement" 
<time-nuts at febo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 01,  2009 11:40 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Finding out who bidders  are


> Interesting ideas. If only I had the time and patience to  work out the 
> list, like some of you have already  done.
>
> How about somebody stepping up and starting a webpage  database of
> "Who's who" in Business & Industrial / Electrical  & Test Equipment
> with listings like:
> Bidder Code   Score    Rating         on  Date          may be eBay 
>  member
>     a***e           345       99%      Sep 01  2009        "someguy99"
>
> Perhaps some of it  could be automated, altough the current eBay  seems 
to 
> be so  loaded with Java or other scripts running in my browser that even 
>  just scanning the current listings myself is getting painfully  slow.
>
> A Firefox extension that implemented this would be very  sweet.
>
> -Rex
>
> Ed Palmer  wrote:
>
>> When you combine the alias with the rating - e.g.  k***u ( 862 ) - the 
>> accuracy starts to resemble crosshairs in a  sniper scope.
>>
>> Ed
>>
>>
>>  J. Forster wrote:
>>
>>> Yup. It helps to know that the  masked bidder ID, liks  a***f, stays
>>> constant sale to  sale. While there are only a few over 650 such
>>> combinations,  it's still pretty accurate on items with limited  appeal.
>>>
>>> -John
>>>
>>>  ==================
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi  all;
>>>> It was nice back when ebay let us know who we were  bidding against, 
if 
>>>> you
>>>> were up a  against some heavy hitter then why waste your time, etc. 
Now  
>>>> it
>>>> takes a little more work to ferret  out who you're up against. What I 
>>>>  have
>>>> done is to save the feedback page for a seller of an  item I may have 
>>>> been
>>>> out bid on.  Usually within a short time the bidders feedback response
>>>>  shows up on the sellers feedback page, compare the feedback score  
back
>>>> against the item page to check if you have the right  person. Then from
>>>> that you can do a bidder search in  "advanced search" and look at 
items 
>>>>  bid
>>>> on in the last 30 days to cross check. I then save the  bidder's bid 
>>>> page
>>>> in a folder,   I have done that to most of us bidding time-nuts. Creepy
>>>>  huh!?!
>>>>
>>>> Rich  1PPS
>>>>
>>>
>
>
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