[meteorite-list] EBAY problem
From: Michael Farmer <farmerm_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:25:42 2004 Message-ID: <00d301c31f1d$0b069800$a731ef42_at_computer> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00D0_01C31EE2.5DABFAE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello everyone, so many of you are emailing me about my missing ebay = items, so I will email the list. It seems that last night ebay decided = that after SEVEN years and many thousands of items sold, that they do = not know where I live so they suspended my ebay account and closed my 65 = auctions.=20 I was extremely surprised when I got home last night to that small = bit of news. Like many of you I have been inundated with spam email = scams regarding ebay and paypal. They are using html to make emails that = look legitimate, asking for account updates. I have been sending many of = them back to ebay. I now use a spam blocker and am able to bounce emails = back to look like my email address is false. It seems that I actually = bounced a real one back to ebay, thus they assumed that my email is = false and shut my account down.=20 Unbelievable that the smammers are getting away with stealing = millions, and I get my account shut down. I am working with ebay and = should be back up an running same as always shortly.=20 Yes, the 65 one cent very nice items will be back up when this gets = resolved, I think they might be relisted by ebay like they were with all = bids intact, but I am not sure.=20 Thanks=20 Mike Farmer ------=_NextPart_000_00D0_01C31EE2.5DABFAE0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hello everyone, so many of you are = emailing me=20 about my missing ebay items, so I will email the list. It seems that = last night=20 ebay decided that after SEVEN years and many thousands of items sold, = that they=20 do not know where I live so they suspended my ebay account and closed my = 65=20 auctions. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> I was extremely = surprised when I=20 got home last night to that small bit of news. Like many of you I have = been=20 inundated with spam email scams regarding ebay and paypal. They are = using html=20 to make emails that look legitimate, asking for account updates. I have = been=20 sending many of them back to ebay. I now use a spam blocker and am able = to=20 bounce emails back to look like my email address is false. It seems that = I=20 actually bounced a real one back to ebay, thus they assumed that my = email is=20 false and shut my account down. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Unbelievable that = the smammers=20 are getting away with stealing millions, and I get my account shut down. = I am=20 working with ebay and should be back up an running same as always = shortly.=20 </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Yes, the 65 one cent very nice items = will be back=20 up when this gets resolved, I think they might be relisted by ebay like = they=20 were with all bids intact, but I am not sure. </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Thanks </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Mike Farmer</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_00D0_01C31EE2.5DABFAE0-- Received on Tue 20 May 2003 06:13:27 PM PDT |
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