what is private listing - bidders' identities protected?

[portulaca]

Im bidding on an item where all bidders show as Private listing bidders identities protected but only my bid show with my ID (masked) Why is this

[lp_madhouse]

Beware, there is something deceitful about sellers using the method: private listing - bidders' identities protected.

Last August, I was trying to buy soccer player coins (value $8-$20 and not rare at all, manufactured when required)  from one particular seller and during the month I was bidding, I got FOUR second chance offers from the SAME seller.  Over the years on ebay I only had that happen once from a completely different seller so one would have to assume something dishonest is happening.

[lyndal1838]

Second chance offers are not suspicious.  They are used when sellers have more than one of the same item for sale.

You said yourself that the items are not rare so the seller probably had many of the same coin.

It has absolutely nothing to do with Private Listings.

It does you no credit to badmouth a seller when you do not understand the system.

[huntingdale6]

I have been bidding on an item, every other bidder is not visable, eg private, but this is a commercial business selling a commercial

product.

This makes this platform iligitmate, the seller can bid up his own product...This quite frankly is pure B/S. It is now a real auction process is it?

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

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@huntingdale6 wrote:

I have been bidding on an item, every other bidder is not visable, eg private, but this is a commercial business selling a commercial

product.

This makes this platform iligitmate, the seller can bid up his own product...This quite frankly is pure B/S. It is now a real auction process is it?

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the best possible response to your post was posted years ago by pj. Here it is again:

All bidders identities are hidden in the bidding, only you and the seller can see the full id.

Sellers can list items as private listings which means the buyer's id, item number and tite are not displayed in feedback so nobody knows what has been purchased. It is mostly used for items of a sensitive nature (certain types of underwear for instance) or for expensive, colectable items so nobody knows who has an item which may be worth stealing.

I will add though, that if you genuinely believe that a seller is bidding up the price on their own item then report the seller for shill bidding.  However, hidden/anonymous/private IDs showing on bid history is not, on its own, evidence of shill bidding.