[rescue] PDP on EBay

Ronald Gilchrist unixrescue at gmail.com
Tue May 29 20:50:30 CDT 2007


> well... ebay exposed the high bidder to me twice... why I don't know...
> if I go back now it probably won't show it... so maybe there is a delay
> between the 'live' auction data and 'completed' auction data where they
> then 'sanitize' the data.  whypaymore$ was the winner of the last 2 out
> of 3 times that item was listed.

I think it hides id's from people who aren't logged in. If you're an
anonymous site visitor, you get 'bidder1' etc. If you're
authenticated, ebay trusts you enough to see who's bidding.

RG



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