No more follow the leader on eBay

eBay is always tweaking its auctions, but recently it's made a major change: one can no longer search and find out what another bidder is currently bidding on. One can still run a search to find out what others have won, at least for bidders registered outside of countries with privacy laws that prohibit any such information to be divulged.

This probably isn't a big deal for the majority of casual eBay browsers, but it is for those who are active in specialized fields, where bidders have routinely followed each other around to find out what items they might have missed. Who wants to be someone else's truffle hound?

Posted by David on January 17, 2007 11:34 AM