why cant i see what someone has bought on their feedback anymore

[amber-eyed-girl]

It's for privacy, if you buy, you can now feel confident someone else won't know what it is.

If you logout, then look at your own profile, you'll see what I would see; any purchases are private, but anything you have sold will still have details and view item. This would let a prospective buyer be able to see feedback for any relevant items they might be interested in.

I think it is a good thing, I don't want just anyone being able to stalk my purchases 🙂

I also use my account to buy gifts, so it's nice to know they are a bit more secret now.

[chameleon54]

  My point being it would be nice if ebay fixed the advanced search facility which allows anyone to see anything we buy, the date, who it was from and for what price. CMON EBAY, GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER AND REMOVE THIS FACILITY. It is a breech of all buyers privacy.

[kopenhagen5]

The advanced one is handy for us volunteers to help others in the Answer Centre though.

But I imagine another more hidden solution could be attained.

[amber-eyed-girl]

just so you know, I am personally FULLY aware of how to access someone's purchases.

I was politely answering the question as posted.

Informing everyone how to do it wasn't a great idea, chameleon54. Negates any privacy we actually have, right?

[amber-eyed-girl]

Chameleon54, my post pointed out I purchase gifts. So it was inappropriate to list items.

I get you are annoyed with eBay, I would like them removed though...for the very reasons you want your privacy 🙂

[chameleon54]

Point taken and appologies offered. My point still stands that if ebay is going to protect our privacy, this facility needs to be ammended. I have contacted ebay numerous times about it. Why am I concerned ?  I am aware of members being very adversly affected by it, with thier accounts being tampered with after posting on the forums. One person lost many thousands of dollars in income when they could least afford it, as a result of a post on the forums and information from their buying history used to attack thier account.

[amber-eyed-girl]

Hi there.

Thank you.

I have seen that the feature used to do it has been removed from eBay.com, so hopefully it will be changed on the Australian site too.

I agree with you that if something is to be private (and purchases should), it should be 100% private, including the removal of less obvious access to the same information.

Which is why when I see questions asking "how do people see my item?" on the boards or answer centre, I don't tell them how 🙂

[scottie2306]

As a buyer and seller, I am interested in what prospective buyers have purchased. Ebay is not a private site; this info is useful to many people. There is always the option to make your own feedback private if you wish. Please don't take this option from those who find it useful.

[lyndal1838]

Private feedback does not mean that our purchases are private....there are other ways of finding out what a member has bought.

Why would a seller be interested in what else a prospective buyer has purchased?  Now that is just snooping and a very good reason for ebay to take away the facility for snooping.

However I do find the ability to help members on the boards is being impeded by lack of information.  Several times recently there have been questions regarding machinery purchases but we cannot see who the seller is, even though past experience tells us who it is.  We have to be conservative with advice whereas if we were sure of the seller we could give much more accurate advice and tell the member how to get their desired outcome without wasting time.