The bidder information is available to the seller. It is ONLY converted to Bidder 1 etc. for the other bidders. I might be missing something here, so please clarify, if you would. What exactly does knowing the bidders actual eBay user IDs provide to you as regards "protection" that Bidder 1 etc. does not? Rich On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:25:07 -0500, Ken Danckaert wrote: >It seems to me that it will not do much good to discuss this only on >Phono-L. You all need to state your displeasure to Ebay itself. That >is not an easy task since Ebay makes it very difficult to send something >directly to them. If anyone knows a good way to send them your comments >please share it with the rest of us. I have commented on the new policy >on one of the chat boards but there is no way to know if Ebay pays much >attention to that. I make heavy use of the bidder info to protect >myself as both a buyer and seller. Ebay has shown themselves to be >incapable of protecting the buyers and sellers from the abuses that >have been discussed here. I believe the policy is purely profit based >and they could care less about the rest of us. Unless they can >guarantee protection to buyers and sellers from the abuses that are >rampent on Ebay, then they should not remove about the only way we have >to protect ourselves. >Ken