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Old 01-02-2018, 08:28 PM
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I wonder about E Bay auctions that take off when the high bidder has zero bid history. They often get relisted because the "high bidder " does not pay.

One of the quirks that I have noticed is that bidder ID's are scrambled from letters and numbers in the actual user ID. But if you click on that bidder's history, you'll see that E Bay scrambles the ID in a different arrangement. So for example, this high bidder has the 9***S in the auction but o***o in bid history. You now have 4 digits of the actual ID. If you have a user ID like mine, you would have 4 of the 5 letters you need to identify my user name.

Vanna, I'd like to buy a vowel....
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