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Re: Ebay feedback weirdness
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lugnet.market.theory
Date: 
Thu, 29 Jun 2000 09:50:26 GMT
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In lugnet.market.theory, Will Middelaer writes:
Something very strange is going on with ebay feedback that perhaps someone
else can explain to me.

I came up this silly idea that I would try to find the oldest feedback that I
could on all of ebay.  Following several peoples feedback profiles, I would
click on whoever first left them feedback, then I would do the same for the
next feedback profile, and so on.

Anyway, I drilled my way down to a UserID "bnixon" that had received some
feedback way back in mid-1996!


I just had to try this. Starting at my own record, I was able to get mack to
May '96 - but got stuck in a loop as two users had given the other their
respective 1st comment.

Scott A

The really strange part is that the userid's
that left this "feedback" did not become registered ebay users until quite a
period of time after the feedback was left, and in some cases it says that
they were registered.

Any ideas?  Have some UserID's been hijacked?

http://cgi2.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewFeedback&userid=bnixon&page=38&items=25

and then for date of registration:

http://cgi2.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewFeedback&userid=svengali@earthlink.net



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(...) When I hit something like this I would back up to the second or third comments in their files and try again. It is really strange, though, that some of these people have feedback from BEFORE they were themselves registered. I understand the (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.theory)

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Something very strange is going on with ebay feedback that perhaps someone else can explain to me. I came up this silly idea that I would try to find the oldest feedback that I could on all of ebay. Following several peoples feedback profiles, I (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.theory)

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