We’ve received plenty of feedback from our community about the way bidders IDs are displayed and we know many of you prefer the transparency that the aliases used on other eBay sites offers.

This change means aliases on eBay.com.au will consist of two random characters from the member's User ID – for example, a***b. This method of identifying a bidder (whose feedback score is also visible) gives members a sense of who is bidding, while still protecting the bidders' identities.

This change will not affect bidding activity – you’ll simply notice the IDs change from Bidder 1, Bidder 2 to the randomised formula as explained above.

Sellers will also be unaffected - if you are logged in you will still be able to see all the actual User IDs for the bidders on your listings.