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Ina
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 Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2003 8:41 pm Post subject: Ask Nick: New eBay Policy Is a Good Thing |
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eBay is forcing users who have an eBay User ID the same as their email adress to change their User ID.
In Sunday (8/24/03)'s issue of AUctionBytes-Update, Nick explains why he thinks this policy is good.
"Ask Nick" is a regular column in AuctionBytes-Update newsletter. "eBay PowerSeller Nick Sevino (a pseudonym) answers questions about buying and selling on eBay."
Feel free to comment on the pros and cons of eBay's new policy, and whether you agree with Powerseller Nick! |
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kjp55
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| Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2003 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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The only reason eBay would want to enforce this new restriction is to reduce the chance of users contacting each other before an auction has ended to make a deal, thus bypassing FV fees.
What other reason would they have? Guard against spam? C'mon, when was the last time eBay did anything out of the goodness of their heart for their customer base.  |
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cpflds
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kjp55
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Hey, is Nick related to that Mr. Goodwrench guy? You know, the one everyone is looking for?  |
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marvin@rain.org
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2003 7:54 pm Post subject: Re: Ask Nick: New eBay Policy Is a Good Thing |
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| Ina wrote: | eBay is forcing users who have an eBay User ID the same as their email adress to change their User ID.
In Sunday (8/24/03)'s issue of AUctionBytes-Update, Nick explains why he thinks this policy is good.
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I *totally* disagree with this new policy that ebay is foisting on the ebay "community". They have consistently been disengenuous in their dealings with the ebay community; redefine site uptime to exclude their maintenance downtime and any outages that don't completely shutdown the site, popups that have prevented people from sniping, suspending people from the DNF board for viewing their publically accessable snitch database, and the list goes on.<p>
Ebay has provided no basis of trust to support their reasons for forcing people to change from an email address to an alias. |
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Ina
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dsh872
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2003 9:09 pm Post subject: eBay's ban on email addresses |
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eBay's ban of email addresses stifles legitimate commerce and communications between bidders and sellers. Yesterday, I used eBay's "Contact a seller form" to ask a question and received the following response: "Warning: Unable to send your question(s)
Unfortunately, we were unable to send your question(s) to the eBay user via email. The user may be experiencing problems receiving email at this time." How often does this occur and is unreported?
"eBay's Community Protection Initiative" is poorly designed. Nick, you chose to write articles on Auctionbytes using a pseudonym. You have your reasons, and maybe you are unaffected by eBay's recent ban. I'm disappointed with your article and the undemocratic direction that eBay is taking. I value my name, email address reputation and internet identity that I have built over many years. |
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sun818
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As much as we hate spam - I personally appreciate my buyers being able to contact me in a way convenient to them. You know some are lazy and if any obstacles exist, they go elsewhere.
No doubt, this move to force eBay aliases is ultimately to force buyer and seller contact via eBay. If anyone remembers TradeOut.com several years back, one of their policies was that buyer and seller could not contact each other directly. They went so far as to monitor and act on the the e-mails. If your e-mail contained direct contact information, your account would be suspended. You can read about it here, under their monitoring clause:
| Quote: | | "TradeOut may also, at its sole discretion, refuse to forward any email from You to any other User for any reason." |
Same thing will happen with eBay. Not now, but I'm thinking when their growth starts to decline. Blind email communication between buyer and seller will be the norm. And eBay will monitor "Ask Seller a Question" e-mails, and suspend those account that originated contact information.
More reason to start diversifying... |
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