@ricarmic wrote:
I am asking this because I have seen a number of new buyers who's ids are like this:
"myebayid-g8Ky31Z"
I've seen the likes in the past for foreign non-English users but it seems almost every id that is a zero or has newly been created has the "-gibberish" part on the end.....
I haven't noticed this, but then I haven't really been looking for it either. However, I would think that strings of mixed upper and lower-case letters and numbers like the one you've mentioned are likely not somebody's personal choice.
One thought -- maybe eBay has so many current users and has used up so many IDs (which I assume can't be re-issued to new users, at least for some time) that it now has to add computer-generated "suffixes" to distinguish one from the other.
So perhaps if someone tries to enter "rose-dee" as a user ID, if this is already taken, eBay's computer's will tack on a series of randomly-generated letters and numbers to make it a distinctive ID. You hit the OK button and voilà! -- you've got your weird-looking ID.
This makes sense to me because the "gibberish" you noted above looks very much like the randomly-generated security characters used to ensure eBay emails are being sent by real people, and not machines.
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