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I told 2 companies that they are leaking email addresses (got spam on single-purpose addresses). One replied very kindly and asked for details, the other did no

I told 2 companies that they are leaking email addresses (got spam on single-purpose addresses). One replied very kindly and asked for details, the other did not answer, after writing them publicly on twitter they blocked me there... The misbehaving one was http://joby.com/ http://joby.com/ they build these awesome gorilla-pods. Do yourself a favor and buy one of the many clones. (got spam to joby.com.singlepurpose@mydomain.com) More or less shady paypal-shops are the worst though :) (paypal hands your mail-adress out (I wonder why they do not relay communications like ebay))

Scoundreller 11y ago
I think Ebay stopped because buyers would get in touch directly with a seller to do re-orders (sometimes at a discount). Sellers used to be able to Ebay message non-winning bidders and offer them product at whatever they bid at. Sellers would also link buyers to their web-store for that item or related ones. Ebay blocks those kinds of messages. Now sellers do it with a paper pamphlet with your package. Paypal, on the other hand, wants you to do more transactions, outside of Ebay or not, because they would likely still be the payment processor and get their cut. It took a while for Ebay to integrate Paypal into the buying process (I'd argue they never really did), so they seemed to always operate semi-independently with non-aligned interests with their parent.