posted on November 9, 2000 11:07:51 AM new
First, Ebay required bidders on high dollar items ($5,000+ I think) to be verified with a credit card (or Equifax ID verify). Then they required it for the Disney auctions. Now it appears they will require verification for buyers who use the "Buy Now" price.
And, of course, all sellers are now required to be verified.
My guess is that they are slowly moving toward verification for all buyers...
posted on November 9, 2000 11:17:36 AM new
But what does verification mean? There are still crooked sellers with dozens of IDs. It doesn't seem to prevent anu real fraud. And if a bidder deadbeats, it's still the seller's problem.
What ebay should do is make a policy that the winning bidder is automatically charged the seller's listing and FVF and only has to pay the seller the balance. That would put a crimp on deadbeats.
posted on November 9, 2000 11:40:31 AM new
Since inbreed cousin Yahoo has already done this, they better. Otherwise it makes Yahoo credible and Ebay seem the new playground for the less than serious.
posted on November 9, 2000 11:44:13 AM new
>>Since inbreed cousin Yahoo has already done this, they better. Otherwise it makes Yahoo credible and Ebay seem the new playground for the less than serious<<
How has Yahoo become credible? even their CC verification is a joke. Yes, there are fewer deadbeats because there are fewer bidders but the percentage of deadbeats hasnt gone down. And the "less than serious" at Yahoo includes Yahoo staff, who are nowhere to be found. I think Yahoo is run by Hal the malfunctioning computer from 2001. "Sorry Dave, I cant do that."
posted on November 9, 2000 02:21:47 PM new
Shosh, the month of March sticks in my head for some reason as when the policy changed. It's not, however, "all" sellers, it's the accounts that start to sell after that date (in March, or whenever it was).
(Note the "starts to sell" thing - that means everybody who registers a new account to sell, and everybody who had an existing account already but who had never listed an item before that cutoff date.)
posted on November 9, 2000 04:56:01 PM newamalgamated2000: If a buyer bids $15,000 or more, they have to register a credit card or do ID verify. There was a brief period of time when one page at eBay said $5,000 and another page said $15,000, but last I heard, they'd made it consistent at $15,000.
