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on 25-08-2019 08:02 PM
I suppose that's why hers are private. I am starting to feel quite vulnerable actually.
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on 25-08-2019 09:44 PM - last edited on 26-08-2019 03:04 PM by luna-2304
Buyers can choose to not let the entire world know what they buy. Nothing suspicious. Your vulnerability is down to you, and has nothing to do with your question, except that stawks' detective work makes it easier to understand your issue.
If you had said initially that you bought from a shonky seller with heaps of bad feedback, you might well have got more useful answers.
Like caveat emptor, or feedback exists for a purpose - check it prior to purchasing.
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on 25-08-2019 09:46 PM
Some eBay members prefer to post here with a posting ID. It's not only permitted under eBay's Multiple account policy, but in fact - to the best of my knowledge - it was suggested at one point by eBay moderators (in the days when the forums were looked after and moderated by eBay employees specifically employed for that purpose amnong others) that some members should have a posting ID in order to protect their trading IDs.
As far as I understand it, this was mostly for eBay members who were selling, since selling accounts are more vulnerable to abuse. (Revenge purchases, malicious feedback, etc., being among the range of behaviours which could actually destroy someone's business just because of a difference of opinion on the boards.)
It doesn't appear likely to me that your account is in any sort of danger. Your purchases can't be seen (just to reassure you), although your feedback does show that you tend to buy from Chinese sellers.
If you're curious to see how much information is shown to others, you're welcome to click onto my feedback score to check the feedback I've given or received. Other eBay users can see the sellers, the coloured dot, and the feedback comment. As I am not an eBay seller, they cannot see the item number or item description. I tend to give item details in my feedback, a habit I acquired to be able to recall from whom I bought what... but if I stated in one piece of feedback, just as an example, something like "Superfast jetpack; took it for a spin over Kiribati - impressed! Thank you!", you'd never be able to tell that what I'd actually bought was, again just as an example, an English terracotta garlic grater.
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on 25-08-2019 10:00 PM
Just to add, if you decide to sell again on eBay you can't have "private feedback".
"Start me up I'll never stop......"
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on 26-08-2019 06:18 PM
Countess, you must be the only person I know that has actually heard of Kiribati.
My sister lived there when it was just plain old Gilbert & Ellis Islands.
My only overseas destination I'm sad to say. But a great 6 day cruise to get there
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on 26-08-2019 06:44 PM
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on 26-08-2019 09:22 PM
Nah, I've heard of Kiribati Stawks......I have some coins from there.
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on 26-08-2019 10:04 PM
@lyndal1838 wrote:Nah, I've heard of Kiribati Stawks......I have some coins from there.
Hang onto them. The joint won't exist in a few years.
Good thing the population can come here and pick fruit.
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on 26-08-2019 11:12 PM
Many years ago, I worked for the Victorian Public Health laboratory, and one of the places we used to receive biological specimens from (blood, urine, tissue and other unmentionables) was Kiribati, as they didn't have their own pathology lab. So now you 'know' of two people who have heard of Kiribati..
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on 26-08-2019 11:38 PM
@lyndal1838 wrote:Nah, I've heard of Kiribati Stawks......I have some coins from there.
I also have coins from Kiribati. I didn't balk when I saw it mentioned. I already knew about it. I'd not known someone who knows someone who lived there though!