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***Coming Soon: 14-Day Limit on Email Address Display***
Date: 02/08/05 Time: 09:58:17 AM PST
In our ongoing effort to help protect the Community from spoof (also
referred to as phishing) and spam emails, we will be changing the duration
for which email addresses are displayed on the site. Later this month, the
My eBay and Member Profile features will be changed to display transaction
partner email addresses for the past 14 days instead of for 90 days. You
will still be able to contact your transaction partners via email for
transactions going back 90 days using the Ask Seller a Question and
Contact My Transaction Partner features.
For more information on how to protect yourself from spoof emails and Web
sites, we encourage you to visit the Security & Resolution Center.
http://pages.ebay.com/securitycenter...geName=CMDV:AB
Regards,
eBay
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First of all, I want to go out of my way to say:
tranche
{wave} Hi, Mr. Beal!
This "announcement" can't possibly reflect legitimate attention toward phishing.
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That's one of the largest piles of steaming, unadulterated BS eBay has ever dumped on the Community.
Just imagine all those evil sellers and buyers spoofing and phishing each other.
You can't imagine that? Neither can I.
I'll let someone else be the first to predict the eventual end of ALL email contact between users.
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...shortly you will not get the email address or physical address of your buyer,
You will have to take your unsealed package (so you cant place your name or address inside) to a eBay auction dropoff store with a code number and only the drop off store will have the addrsss of your buyer!
Seller will get a code number for each buyer, buyer MUST use PayPal.
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One more HUGE reason to use a third party management company.
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My email address is right there in every auction description and every store item description for all the world to see. Do ebayers use it? Not many of them. No more than one in twelve emails I get come to me directly, rather than from Ask the Seller a Question.
It's an email addy that has been on the web since 1997 and is already on every junk mail list in the world... so why do all these phishing emails and trojan carriers come to my other, allegedly "private" addys?
Does eBay have a leak? Are they being harvested from the addressbooks of people with whom I've done business?
Probably both...
But I will continue to post my email addy and I will continue to avoid *ALL* management companies and their automated impersonal closing procedures until it becomes clear that people simply no longer wish to take the time to buy from people, that they would prefer to just anonymously push buttons, transfer credits, and receive plain, unmarked packages in return.
Then I'll look for something else altogether to pass the time.
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*ALL* management companies and their automated impersonal
Are you saying that you type out every email from scratch starting w/
"Hi, You've Won" to "Thank you, from xxx"
Not all third party software is "impersonal" or "automated". The point of the 3rd party software is that if you want to pull up your auction or info you had on your buyer, 5 years from now, you would have it.
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I agree, this is another step towards no email contact w/o going through ebay.
Originally Posted by Sheila
Are you saying that you type out every email from scratch starting w/ "Hi, You've Won" to "Thank you, from xxx"
I do, but I only run 10-20 auctions at a time. It seems like most auction programs cost way too much to make it worth it for me. I have a notebook (I'm on my 7th) that I enter the auction #, item name, buyer's name/address/email, shipping weight/cost, method of payment/insured or not, date of shipping and feedback left. I've got all this info on all my buyers back to 1999.
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ok, this makes no sense.
the only person(s) that have access to email addresses is the seller/buyer, is ebay trying to tell us that theres a security flaw within their system?
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I do basically the same as Karen as a seller.
As a buyer I will not use a third party auction management service to complete a buy. You may think that inputting your personal info to Andale, Vendio, etc. is a good thing.
I do not.
i-mosh - it's eBay, it doesn't have to make sense.
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Repeat after me, ebay in only a venue, ebay is only a venue, ebay is only a venue...