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New Rules for Dutch Auctions
To our valued community:
In the past few months, eBay has made a concerted effort to maintain a safe
trading environment for our growing community. And in the coming months, we
plan to make several improvements to create a safer, more secure trading
environment at eBay for you - including Insurance, changes to the Feedback
Forum, changes to the User Agreement, and a voluntary User Verification
program. These recent efforts also included taking a hard look at our
policies on bidding on your item, shill bidding and bidding but not completing
the transaction.
Based upon your suggestions, we have also taken a hard look at our policies
on Dutch Auctions and their impact on safe trading at eBay. What we found
has prompted two very important changes to Dutch Auctions that will be made
immediately.
As of February 3, 1999, in order to sell items using the Dutch Auction
format, sellers must:
- Have a Feedback Rating of 10 or above; and
- Be a member of eBay for 60 days or more.
We believe that this will help prevent unscrupulous people from taking
advantage of honest, trustworthy individuals in our community. We understand
that this may inconvenience a few sellers, but we hope you understand our
concern for protecting bidders and for maintaining an open, honest and safe
environment for online trading.
As always, we try to do things hand-in-hand with you, our valued community
members. You have helped make eBay what it is. And we thank you for your
support and for your help in making eBay an even better place for online
trading.
Regards,
eBay
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