How do you know if it's a Private Listing?

theonlywayisup

alykatz wrote: »

But you cant see the bidding stats when the listing has bidder indentity protected on.

also i dont think there is a way to know without any bids being placed im afraid.

Yes you can. Although I am late to the party in explaining private listings.

fwor wrote: »

To be honest, I can't see that as a particularly good justification. It's almost trivial to set up more than one login on Ebay, so if a buyer wants to buy something but keep it secret from someone else, they don't have to think too hard about how to do that!


Similarly, for "personal" items, your Ebay buyer ID doesn't exactly give away much information that could lead to someone tracing the ID back to you, unless you choose to make it so.

Cookies tend to be your downfall when trying to set up different ebay user ids to hide birthday gifts et al.

alykatz

theonlywayisup wrote: »

Yes you can. Although I am late to the party in explaining private listings.

Please can you tell me how as all i see is private listing - bidder identity protected for every bid other than my own?

LadyDee

I never bid without checking feedback, and it's easy to see there whether their items are private. If they are, then I move on.