What is "private listing - bidders' identities protected"

[zhan_lifan]

90% ebay  "private listing - bidders' identities protected"  is "fraudulence", that Ebay seller is fakement on ebayprivate listing.

[kh-leslie]

Hi everyone,

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Thank you for understanding.

[massey_1993]

I do not have an answer per se but wanted to say I do not buy the reasons already given.  I can think of very few legitimate reasons why someone would need to do so.  I would have to suspect it as a deceptive process, quite possibly to increase final auction price.  EBay should NOT allow "private listing-bidder's identities protected" IMO

[clemowbooks]

Can you show how a private listing is fraudulent?

And please note spelling, the collection of letters used does not make a word.

Many private listings are for embarrassing items.

Some are for items that are based on a Best Offer or on a group of items that would be of interest only to one buyer.

And during the holidays, some buyers don't want household members to see what their present will be.

[brettjet38]

The private listing option hides the identities and email addresses of all bidders, both during and after a sale. Only the seller and the highest bidder see the listing results, and only the seller knows who bought the item.

Private listings simply hide associations.

When a listing is private, it simply becomes impossible to link a particular eBay member to a particular listing, since their bids are hidden and there is no link in feedback to the item. Members' evaluations of one another in feedback, however, are still viewable.