Question
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>*** Trust & Safety Initiative: Email Address Transition to User ID & Limiting Sign In with Email Addresses***
Date: 07/31/03 Time: 05:23:38 PM PDT
Over the last several months, eBay has been taking proactive measures to enhance the safety of the eBay marketplace and reduce the risk to members from "spoof" emails. Deceptively claiming to come from eBay, these emails are an attempt by fraudsters to victimize eBay members by asking them to enter personal information like credit card numbers, social security numbers, and account passwords.
To combat this issue and act decisively on behalf of the Community's safety, several weeks ago we introduced functionality which limits the ability to look up accounts by email addresses on our site unless there has been a transaction between the members. Prior to this move, fraudsters used site features intended to facilitate transactions between members to harvest and validate email addresses, and ultimately target eBay members for fraud.
We are now moving into the next phase of this Community Protection Initiative. This phase includes two parts: 1) The transition of email address-based User IDs to a non-email User ID, and 2) Limiting the use of email addresses with Sign-In.
1) The transition of email address-based User IDs to a non-email User ID.
While only a small percentage of the Community still has an email-based User ID, these members are 4 times more likely to have their accounts stolen compared to members with a non-email User ID. Due to this risk, we are requiring that all members transition to a non-email User ID. There are two milestones in the timeline for this project that we want affected members to be aware of:
Inactive members (members who have not had any buying or selling activity in the last 12 months) who have an email address as their User ID will be assigned a non-email User ID automatically starting the week of August 11, 2003.
All other members who still do not have a non-email User ID will be automatically assigned a non-email User ID by January 2004.
For a more detailed explanation of the timeline for the email migration process, please read our Frequently Asked Questions.
2) Limiting the use of email addresses with Sign-In.
The second part of this phase of the project eliminates the ability to sign in to eBay using an email address if a non-email-based User ID exists. In a few weeks, these members will no longer be able to sign in with their email addresses. (Active members still using an email-based User ID will be able to use Sign-In for a limited time. See the FAQ for more details on the timeline.)
Members who may not remember their User IDs can use the Forgot your User ID? feature from any Sign-In page. This feature will email the User ID to the member's registered email address.
If your User ID is an email address, we strongly encourage you to use our Change User ID feature as soon as possible. By choosing your own User ID now, you can select a User ID that you prefer and avoid having eBay assign one for you. All your feedback and account history will remain with you. For more information about changing your User ID,
Click Help at the top of almost any eBay page
Click My Account
Click My Personal Information
Click Updating Registration Information
Then click Changing Your User ID.
Keeping the Community safe is a top priority for eBay. We appreciate your support and understanding for any inconvenience this project may cause, as we work together to keep the eBay marketplace safe.
Regards,
eBay
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
ebay just made it more difficult for buyers to locate trusted sellers. What a great New Feature, not! And they reward those that secured ID's based upon another users email address. With great logic like this, wonder how long before PalPay is mandatory?
email: codclass*yahoo.com
Answer
That stinks.
Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do.
Answer
As much as I hate all the spam I get (I am smart enough to know not to answer those stupid emails) I don't want to risk losing my repeat customers because of this. Many will think I am naru or something.
But looks like I am going to have to.
And I have tons of repeat customers.
I was hoping if I just kept clicking that page away that keeps coming up every time I sign in, ebay would leave me along.
If I want to take the email risk, then so be it.
Idiots.
Jill
Answer
grandfathering died.... http://community.here.com/infopop/em...icon_frown.gif
www.biggbill.com
a proud member of D.O.U.A
http://doua.proboards15.com/index.cgi
Answer
That just sucks! I have had the same userid since I joined Ebay in 1998. Yes, what happened to be grandfathered?
My ebay
Answer
Almost a third of my feedback is repeat business. For a very eclectic seller, I take pride in that repeat business. So much for five plus years of goodwill.
Short and easy for the buyer to remember ID's are now all taken. I am now seriously penalised for being a long time faithful user of Ebay. So much for five plus years of goodwill.
I lost a number of my bidding lists when they removed the ability to find a preferred/bookmarked seller if you only have their email address. Anyone who does not change the bookmark, and does not notice or remember the changed ID will be lost after 30 days of having changes my ID. So much for five plus years of goodwill.
Ebay has over the last few months made the ability to be productive much harder and slower. They have steadily removed my control over my business. They have made this marketplace much more laborious (which I can only see reducing their own bottom line) for all users. And they have done even more to the detriment of long term faithful users, than any other. So much for five plus years of goodwill.
Ebay sucks. What was a fantastic international marketplace has been fragmented to reduce competition for the goods of ALL sellers. And they have finally made selling on Ebay a chore. So much for seven plus years of goodwill.
Damn, Kevin
'
'
Edited to fix a spelling error, that was cut and pasted from the first paragraph onto every paragraph. Ooops!
Click here for Gaffan Fundraiser Auctions.
Answer
Who has a email address we all can write to. I have been the same user ID since I started in 1997 and don't wanna change, We need a letter writing campain. How high handed of the monsters!!!!
"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced"
Answer
I wouldn't wait to long to change your ID, we tryed for an hour this morning to find an unused ID we liked. Many of the ones we liked where 2, 3 or 4 year old ID's that had NEVER been used to buy or sell, but where unavailable because someone registered them in 1999 or 2000 or 2001. I have a feeling that many more ID's are going to be used up in the next few months.
But it does stink. We have always, since day one, used our email address as a User ID, and never had our account "hijacked". We get all the scam emails that anyone with a red star on eBay gets, but ....
Anyone who has had their account hijacked is, quite simply, not using basic common security measures. Don't click on links in emails without verifying where the link is going to take you, and use a good password that is not simple to guess.
Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do.
Answer
What Kevin said, goes for me, too!
I actually changed my used ID from my email address earlier this month.
I take each summer off from selling, to take my son to his golf tournaments, so I figured I might as well bite the bullet while I wasn't actively selling.
It really sucks, though, since it was much easier to use my email addy for my ID.
Losing repeat customers is a real issue, and it really pisses me off that ebay frames this move as helpful to us.
Even if the risk is 4 times greater for identity theft, 4 times .001 is still only .004! (These numbers are entirely made up, but I can't imagine it's actually that big of a problem on ebay).
We all know why they're insisting on this change.
http://community.here.com/infopop/em...s/icon_mad.gif http://community.here.com/infopop/em...s/icon_mad.gif http://community.here.com/infopop/em...s/icon_mad.gifGREEDY SOBS!!!!!!!! http://community.here.com/infopop/em...s/icon_mad.gif http://community.here.com/infopop/em...s/icon_mad.gif http://community.here.com/infopop/em...s/icon_mad.gif
lindamoss
ebay stuff
Answer
<rant>
EbaY is doing this because they want to prevent fraud.
RRRRRIIIIIGGGGGGHHHHHTTTTT. http://community.here.com/infopop/em...n_rolleyes.gif
They do everything they can think of to PREVENT the detection of fraud on ebaY and expect people to believe they are doing this to protect you from fraud? LOL!
And, this "phase two" is PURE bs. That was NOT the deal. Those of us with email addresses as our ID were told we were being allowed to keep them, period.
I have an email as my ID and I want to keep it. What arrogance to say they are denying me the ID I want to "protect me." BALONEY. http://community.here.com/infopop/em...s/icon_mad.gif
This is just another phase in the plan to prevent communication between buyers and sellers directly. Next, email links will be outlawed in the listings, and all email will have to go through ebaY.
Course, you all can do NOTHING about it, except ask "master ebaY" to please change it's mind. You have no one representing your interests, and that is YOUR fault, not ebaY's.
IMO, you all are getting the marketplace and treatment you deserve because you refuse to put your common interests ahead of your ego's and paranoia, and establish a REAL merchant's organization. That you don't like a non-seller telling you this, in my unpleasant direct manner, doesn't change the fact you are being controlled and manipulated by corporate greedheads who are out to turn you into little more than cyber-serfs whom they can bleed dry, a little at a time.
</rant>
****