In a message dated 1/17/2007 9:50:58 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, Aph4990 at aol.com writes: 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 The phonograph community is really very small. When you've been in this game for a while, you get to know who the knowledgeable bidders are. When I see a potentially rare item attracting bids from knowledgeable collectors, I am much more likely to bid myself. This affords a certain degree of protection from buying mistakes. I'm sure everyone has his or her own system for providing security in bidding, but I think it is unfortunate that eBay has chosen to remove some of my security. ---Art Heller -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Aph4990 at aol.com Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Protected Bidding on ebay! Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:44:12 EST Size: 4082 Url: http://www.oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/attachments/20070118/0dd12e11/attachment.mht