Friend keeps looking what I am buying...

@Cat

You could just change your User ID on ebay by following the process here. http://cgi4.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ChangeUserId
You'd still have the same account, registered to the same email address but your 'friend' wouldn't know your user ID to type in to search for what you've bid on.
It used to be possible to search by email address but all it tells you now is whether the email address is registered on ebay and how many feedback the user has.

CrazyChemist_2

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You could just change your User ID on ebay by following the process here. http://cgi4.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ChangeUserId
You'd still have the same account, registered to the same email address but your 'friend' wouldn't know your user ID to type in to search for what you've bid on.
It used to be possible to search by email address but all it tells you now is whether the email address is registered on ebay and how many feedback the user has.

Don't forget it flags you up for 30 days following account name change saying what the previous account username was... :think: not sure if this could then be tracked by your "friend"

frivolous_fay

Don't forget your 'friend' could also have you on his favourtie sellers lists, and if all you did was change your ID name, you'd still be on it...

Jazzy_B

I changed my user name about two months ago,as my ID was too easily identifiable to me , and someone I knew vaguely said she'd spotted my listings. I changed my ID thinking that after 30 days she wouldn't be able to look me up, but I was wrong. I didn't want to start up a new ID, as I've got a lot of feedback at 100%.
I'd love to know if there's any way of combining accounts, so you can keep the feedback.

trencherpilot

Just change your user name to Stop_spying_on_me_(friends name). That might put him off. In the mean time, set up a new account.

Cat72

[EMAIL="Soolin@s"]Soolin's[/EMAIL] advice & others about opening another second seperate account is the best idea. As others have said changing your id name means you can easily be traced up to 30 days and a person like this will probably be checking your ebay account everyday since they probably have no real life themselves.
I can sympathise with you in some ways as my boyfriends friends used to track our account and look atwhat we bought and sold. Atfirst it was just fun and they would send fake questions through others accounts. But after a while it became tedious and also seedy the way they kept track of our business.
So we opened a second account and have had no problems for over a year. As we never used our original account for so long they got tired of watching itso we can now use that account ifwe wish- but I stick to the 2nd one that they dont know about just incase.
However I would also suggest when you list something to change the item location to UK or a region rather than your town name- as this again prevents people you know finding your listings.

hb1444

Why is your friend so nosy and paranoid? A friend is someone you like and understand, why does he look anyway? My friends would never do a thing like that

I have a similar problem, I have a right idiot and a pillock of a brother who always wanted to get into my ebay account, really I authorised an uncle to get in, he wanted to up the prices of his ebay items, the computer set up a cache, and my password was saved, so my brother kept going into it, so when I found a bid for an Ipod nano, well, he tried to say that my uncle told him to bid, but I gave him a good "lesson" with the same hands I used to change my password so no-one could get in!

CrazyChemist_2

hb1444 wrote:

Why is your friend so nosy and paranoid? A friend is someone you like and understand, why does he look anyway? My friends would never do a thing like that

I have a similar problem, I have a right idiot and a pillock of a brother who always wanted to get into my ebay account, really I authorised an uncle to get in, he wanted to up the prices of his ebay items, the computer set up a cache, and my password was saved, so my brother kept going into it, so when I found a bid for an Ipod nano, well, he tried to say that my uncle told him to bid, but I gave him a good "lesson" with the same hands I used to change my password so no-one could get in!

Your uncle bid on his own items using your account?? Is that allowed? :think:

wigginsmum

Nope - it's shill bidding and strictly not allowed by Ebay, as well as being morally wrong.

Moglex

wigginsmum wrote:

Nope - it's shill bidding and strictly not allowed by Ebay, as well as being morally wrong.

How can it be morally wrong?

The seller can set any price they like as a starting price. Shill bidding is just a way of doing that in a manner that deprives fleabay of some listing fee.

Nobody is forcing a buyer to outbid the shiller.

Note: I do not sell on ebay and if I did, I wouldn't shill - I just can't see a problem with it. It's no different to a shop putting up the price of an item.