ebay conspiracy?

[Azngtboi88]

ive been on ebay a lot lately bidding on larger scale rc's. Something I noticed was that there was always a bidder with a name similar to this (r***h) or (4***9). Theres always just one letter or number and three asterisks and another letter or number. It just seems kinda odd to me. Everything I've wanted to bid on has a person with a name like that that bid on the item. It just seems too weird to be a coincidence to me. Anyone else notice this?

[BART]

I think that during active bidding the high bidders name can be kept private. I would imagine this is to keep you from contacting the high bidder.

[123Vette]

ya its a new privacy feature, only the person and the person whose item there bidding on can see who they are, for protection reasons. I know this cuz my uncle has a fairlylarge ebay storre i help with all the time

[2wdpancar]

I think it's automated bots to bump up the price to what the seller wanted to get.
Or not...because I always get out-bid by those things/people.

[Smoke&Mirrors]

Well as far as the name display goes no matter what you name is, say for example it is "Smoke&Mirrors", it will show up to other people as "S***S". It is part of a new privacy agreement - the first letter/number followed by 3 asterisks and the last number/letter. I was suspicious too at first.

[Azngtboi88]

Ohhh okay....I kept thinking what the heck?! The first thing that popped to my mind was that ebay was sending out bid bots like blt said lol. I was getting pretty ****ed too because the thing I wanted to buy went really high and I thought it was ebay doing that. Thanks for the answers!