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eBay are particularly careless in that regard. There's no reason that a seller should ever see the customer's actual e-mail address on such a site but I'm up t

eBay are particularly careless in that regard. There's no reason that a seller should ever see the customer's actual e-mail address on such a site but I'm up to ebay5@ on my mail server due to direct spam from sellers from whom I bought one item in the past. No, sellers, I did not 'opt in' to your spam just because I bought something. But why does eBay ever give them the address? Oddly I've never had a problem with random Chinese sellers, it's always Euro or US ones.

dylz 8y ago
Chinese sellers have been very pleasant to deal with IME, including obviously hand-written niceties, handwritten thank you notes (maybe not in the best English but the sentiment is there) for a bunch of stuff. Occasionally small 'gift' items, have gotten Chinese fun-size snacks too. There are US sellers that have resulted in 27+ emails _within one day of purchase_, one seller has managed to sign my ebay_a10f9@ alias up for five separate companies reselling third party warranties / affiliate spam for the above. What the fuck?
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CamperBob2 8y ago
I have a different point of view as a longtime eBay user on both the buying and selling side. The more the company acted to "re-intermediate" buyer-seller interaction by doing things like restricting auction content, channeling communication through their own messaging system, concealing identities in feedback to prevent buyers and sellers from doing reasonable due diligence on each other, prohibiting various payment methods in order to shove PayPal down everyone's throats, and so on, the less interested I became in using eBay in general. There was a strong sense of community on eBay in the company's early years that gradually went away over the years, and I still miss it. eBay is now dominated by medium-to-high volume corporate sellers, and that was not how it was originally supposed to work.

dylz 8y ago

Chinese sellers have been very pleasant to deal with IME, including obviously hand-written niceties, handwritten thank you notes (maybe not in the best English but the sentiment is there) for a bunch of stuff. Occasionally small 'gift' items, have gotten Chinese fun-size snacks too. There are US sellers that have resulted in 27+ emails _within one day of purchase_, one seller has managed to sign my ebay_a10f9@ alias up for five separate companies reselling third party warranties / affiliate spam for the above. What the fuck?

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CamperBob2 8y ago

I have a different point of view as a longtime eBay user on both the buying and selling side. The more the company acted to "re-intermediate" buyer-seller interaction by doing things like restricting auction content, channeling communication through their own messaging system, concealing identities in feedback to prevent buyers and sellers from doing reasonable due diligence on each other, prohibiting various payment methods in order to shove PayPal down everyone's throats, and so on, the less interested I became in using eBay in general. There was a strong sense of community on eBay in the company's early years that gradually went away over the years, and I still miss it. eBay is now dominated by medium-to-high volume corporate sellers, and that was not how it was originally supposed to work.