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Message: From my past experiences on ebay, I wish to offer the following suggestions which I feel will help to make ebay a safer place to do business.
1. It is much too easy for ebayers to have many multiple ids on ebay. All a person needs is another email address which are quite easy to get, and or another credit card etc and they are on there way with a new fresh ebay id.
The availability of these ids undermines the already small protection that feedback offers. While I believe the ebay feedback system is a fine idea, the major fault of it is the ability to get another id.
My experiences on ebay have led me to know many ebayers use a lot of ids. People engaged in less than enjoyable activity, are the main people that use many multiple ids.
Recently I opened up another ebay id for Buying purposes only, electing to have a seperate id for most sales. This was to protect my ability to leave appropriate feedback when buying without damaging my selling rating. The same benefits I get from this other id, also give the less desirables an extra chance to do less than honest activity on ebay.
If it was only possible for ebayers to get a maximum of two ebay ids, etc, it would lead to a much better use of the feedback system for all ebayers.
As it stands now, If i wanted too, I can open 10 ebay ids right now without any problem whatsoever! Even 20. All I need is another family member or freind with an shaw isp account and unused available email addresses, and I can open ebay ids like crazy, and access all this email on my own home computer.
Seeing as almost anyone can be twenty different people right now on ebay, the integrety of all ebay activity is greatly hampered.
I know you people at ebay know, i am very right here, so if you want to get more bad people away, you need to at least limit each person to two ebay ids. Let them have one for selling and one for buying, and only let them use one email address.
Those that have many ebay ids could be given the one time opportunity to have all these ebay ids merged, to the new limit.
Dave in Canada.
