[rescue] PDP on EBay

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Ronald Gilchrist wrote:
>> 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.

I am logged in all the time, and I still see bidder1->bidderN sometimes.

I think eBay is buggy as hell, so maybe that's it.


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shannon
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