This was my wife's experience. She recently signed up for her own eBay account with her work email (she was buying me a Christmas present, ha) and was dismayed

This was my wife's experience. She recently signed up for her own eBay account with her work email (she was buying me a Christmas present, ha) and was dismayed at the amount of spam they sent. Went through exactly this and was in utter outrage that eBay said she might still get spam for up to four weeks. I don't know how typical she is, but you do wonder whether eBay's mercenary attitude towards spam isn't a detriment to their public reputation.