GunBroker has followed its liberal brother's (read: eBay's) lead as usual. It is now masking high bidder IDs. Let the bidding against your friends and shill bidding begin.

GunBroker has followed its liberal brother's (read: eBay's) lead as usual. It is now masking high bidder IDs. Let the bidding against your friends and shill bidding begin.

I just noticed that this morning. I already liked Auction Arms better. Now more so.

Hiding the high bidders on ebay has eleminated intimidation and "revenge bids"(when person A loses a bid to person B and then finds out what person B is bidding on next and raises the price)

I thought something looked different, whats the point of that? Maybe some people have been complaining that they are getting emails after they sniped someone? I hate GB unless they have a buy it now on something I want, I would rather pay too much than sit there for a auction until the last 15 and play games with some rub.

AA hides the high bidder until the reserve is met in those type auctions.

BTW I have been trying to get on GB for a couple of days and havent been able to.

I'm not sure how this makes any difference to me. If I want it, I make one bid and either I buy it or I don't.

I'm sure they have some reason for doing this.

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It will be a bit harder for users to track shill bidding.

If I were to have an auction, I would want "users" identified.

Something sounds fishy to me, and I don't mean tuna or salmon, but what do I know.

I would suggest to all setting your "mind's value" more conservatively, and sticking to it.

I know how easy it is to get carried away in live auctions...boy, how I know!

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+1

If it is something I want I decided what I am willing to pay and bid that amount. If I win, great. If someone out bids me, they get the joy (or burden ) of ownership. This change makes no difference to me.

There is a very good reason they did this-
Bidders were being contacted by scam artists.

In my last run of auctions, several of the high bidders on auctions that were STILL RUNNING were contacted by scammers posing as me. The scammer said he was willing to take their current high bid for the gun. One guy smelled a rat, and played along, asking how to pay. The guy wanted the money sent to the UK! He asked how he would get the gun if he was in the UK, and the guy never answered.


It happened to several guys, so I actually added a warning to my later auctios:

"BEWARE of scam emails! I DO NOT offer to end auctions early, so I will NOT be contacting you till you WIN the auction. You can SEE who I am and my contact info on the auction page AFTER the auction!"
Check it out here- the 5th paragraph in the text: GB Auction

I get MULTIPLE phishing emails every day that I run auctions on ebay and GB. They appear to come from PayPal, ebay, and GB. They always say something is WRONG! Login here to straighten the problem out before your account is frozen! Hurry- give us your data!

If you get an email alert about your account, and you want to check your account, go in through the site itself, NOT through the email. In other words, login to ebay or Paypal, or GB, and check it there.


Be careful out there.

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Lee Jarrett