Ebay Feedback
6I am noticing a trend where Ebay buyers will use my ebay email address to sign me up for stupid shitty email lists.
How do you guys handle this?
If they do it soon after the purchase I have been leaving negative feedback. The ones that show up way later ebay says your suppose to report them to ebay but it doesnt seem like ebay wants me to contact them…
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How exactly are they seeing your eBay email address? I don’t remember having access to any, at least not for a long time…
@compunaut When you make a payment via Paypal, the address shows up.
@narfcake It shows up @ eBay or in the Paypal line item details?
@compunaut In Paypal.
@narfcake OK. That was my understanding. I believe eBay eliminated that potential a while ago, though I’m not an expert seller any longer (and I probably don’t keep up with new ‘features’ very well, either)
i have an email just for ebay and paypal
its seperate from my normal email account and i only check it once a week or so
@communist
I also use separate email addresses for ebay and paypal. I dont know if anyone has abused those; i reply on the spam filter, which does a pretty good job.
@darkzrobe
How are you leaving negative feedback for buyers? I thought that was no longer an option for the last few years, due to abuse by a few sellers. And how do you know the buyer - or the most recent buyer - is responsible?
@f00l Cause the emails usually are related to what I just bought. Sellers can leave negative feedback but you have to wait a while to do it… So I have to hold in the hate and savor it for 7 days.
@communist same here.
I didn’t think sellers could leave negative feedback anymore, I hope that is true actually
@gnext2 As an active seller… I can confirm, I am no longer able to leave negative feedback for bidders. No matter how despicably they’ve conducted themselves, I cannot leave bad feedback. Seller’s have 3 options: Positive, Report This Buyer, I’ll Leave Feedback Later.
I’ve been an member since 1997, and I can honestly say I haven’t had any eBay-related email spam since Paypal was invented (and precious little before that)
/giphy ebay spam
Perhaps you have spyware/malware on your PC. They can spam you based on your web activity.
And - there are faster, easier and less costly ways to harvest email addresses.
That sucks because I set up 3 levels of email (yahoo), Spam, probably spam and bank. Paypal is bank and ebay is probably spam.
A year or two ago I set up a new gmail account to collect all the yahoo emails and I use tags to auto delete scripts. For example I have a tag for 24 hours. So if an email is 24 hours old it gets deleted for daily deal sites. One tag is for a week for store deals…
To be honest the spamming is so bad I rarely keep the auto tags up to date, google does some of the heavy lifting on this too.
Just use Gmail. Their spam filtering is so bizarrely good you’ll pretty much forget spam even exists. If you don’t want a gmail.com address, you can set it up to retrieve messages from any POP3 server as well.
@Starblind Agreed. Gmail is exceptional about filtering out spam. And I’ve grown dependent on the automatic mail categorizing feature (which is also bizarrely good). I hate the Gmail mobile apps, but the filtering and categorizing keeps me in the fold.