Car analogy is rather good!quote:I can let someone drive my car, which is (in my world) the same as “give out your ID and password to a third party”. When I “transfer” my car to someone, then I no longer have the ability to determine who drives the car or not.
In my mind, transferring one's eBay ID would be GIVING someone your ID to use for THEMSELVES -- purchasing & selling for THEMSELVES, not for YOU. Auctionsniper(AS) acts as a virtual assistent, bidding NOT for THEMSELVES, but bidding for YOU at YOUR DIRECTION. It would be similar to a boss, having to be in a meeting in the afternoon and wanting to manually snipe an auction ending during the meeting, giving a secretary his eBay ID info and directing her to bid in his behalf on a specific item at a specific time for a specific bid price. That is exactly what AS does programatically, and I would contend that in neither case was a "TRANSFER of ID to another party" involved.
In essence, AS is a third party "proxy" bidder for you.