I have tried to be very careful of not bidding against other members of SRP on Ebay, but apparently there is a new thing over there that makes that impossible to determine -

I bid on an auction recently, and noticed that the other bidder was identified as "Bidder-1"; I mistakenly thought that was the bidder's ID, until a little notice came up that said that Ebay, allegedly in an effort to protect bidders from getting shill offers during or after an auction, they are anonymizing bidders names until after the auction?

Come to find out, I was bidding against another member! Not cool - do you think they are doing this to keep groups like us from bidding against each other?

K