Thanks Ann for the clarification. I'll watch for that. Ebay doesn't communicate well, especially about problems! Regards, Bob S.
On 2/17/07, ann sanfedele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Sullivan wrote: > > >Ann, > > > >I've never gotten a scam email that appeared on "My ebay", the place > >where they summarize your account, items your watching, and so forth. > >It's looks pretty fool proof to me. > > > alas, were it so. > > >(snip...) > > > > > Bob, trust me, the scam mail came through the MY EBAY message thing -- I > use this all the time. > watch out for it. > > I have gotten two or three that way -- they aren't scams in the regular > sense, they are > listed ebay users who are offering to sell your stuff for you, usually. > ebay catches them > (sometimes) and has twice sent me an alert, though they didn't need to. > > Bob wrote > > >I have received messages that appeared to be from ebay's mail > >system...questions about buying or selling an item I didn't list or > >bid on. The format made it look just like it was from the ebay mail > >system, but it wasn't and it didn't show on 'My ebay' summary page. > > > ann replies > Mine did. > > >Are you saying that you are getting messages thru their system that > >are scams. If so, time to report them. > > > >Regards, Bob S. > > > Of course I reported it to them. But as I said above, they caught some > after it got to my mailbox. > > What annoys me is when I report stuff to ebay and they reply with all > the stuff __I __told __them__ in > a form letter, as if they had never read mine. > > But I have all the mail in my messages forwarded to my real email > address and I write my replies > from my real email address -- I only use the ebay mail if I think > someone's spam locker may have > kept them from getting mail directly from me. > I do this because I want every single email I ever sent anyone about > anything to be saved on my machine > at home. > > > ann > > > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
