out bid by a ( private ) bidder

[bluetigger236]

hi 

i recently bid on an item for sale on ebay , after bidding I checked the bid history , as expected i noticed that ebay had not put the full ebay user ID on the bidding history but had blanked out some of the ebay users ID .

At the end of the auction I checked again and noticed that the winning bid was placed by a ( private ) bidder , no information at all was shown about the user ID in the brackets like the others .

I am aware a seller  can make the whole listing and bidding process private , but how can the seller make one bidder out of 10 bidders be private and all of the others not private ?

Is this something the bidder has done before they bid ?

I have never noticed this before on ebay 

thanks for any help 

[john1297576]

Bidders can make their feedback private although what they have got to hide I don't know, but when they bid it just shows as a private bidder instead of the usual a***b.

[bluetigger236]

I did realise that some people prefer to keep their feedback private ! cant understand why they would do this , feedback shows how you use ebay , paying, buying answering messages etc , cant see why anyone would want to keep that a secret !

I presume then if the bidder wants to keep their feedback private that would explain why ebay does not show the bidders identity as encoded like all the others because the identity also includes the feedback in brackets too .

thanks for your help

[rusticrye]

You're not understanding how things work.

Only the seller and you (while you're logged in) can see your full ID. Every other bidder or viewer sees an encoded version, for obvious reasons. If you log out of your account and look at the listing you've bid on, you'll see how your ID is seen by everyone else.

@bluetigger236 

[bluetigger236]

I do understand how things work ,

I know ebay encode the bidders ID and does not show the full bidders ID

I know I will be able to see my ID as a bidder .

on the bid history I noticed that the other 9 bidders ID had been encoded by ebay , some of the letters and numbers in the user ID had been blanked out , encoded .

BUT one bidders ID had the word private in brackets , it did not have ANY letters or numbers from that bidders user ID

how can that bidder keep ALL of their ebay ID private and not have it encoded like the other bidders ?

thanks

[plpmr]

that's because said bidder had private feedback.