If you are referring to the bidders being listed as "Bidder 1", "Bidder 2" etc this is a new eBay feature. As I read it it will be the way all auctions are listed in the future. I have not looked into it very hard and I might be wrong. On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:08:44 -0600, Jeffry Young, D.O. wrote: >Any experiences or comments on bidder identification protection on >ebay?! I am always worried that the bidding is sham bidding in these >auctions, artificially raising the price? I actually look for bidders >whom I have bid against in the past. This lends towards legitimacy, but >also confirms what I am bidding on, others that collect the same thing >are also interested. >Has anyone bid, or won anything with these bidder identification >protected auctions? The seller of the Zonophone-A is doing that with >that particular auction. >Jeff Young >Wisconsin >_______________________________________________ >Phono-L mailing list >http://phono-l.oldcrank.org