I got my first yesterday and seeing as I'm selling at the moment, I did
send a 'please explain.' Also checked the item which came up as an
invalid auction. Now, what am I in for - deluge of porn; bigger
overdraft; demands for payment of invoice; growing herbal viagra
offers? Had me fooled.
AndrewF
(failed skeptic).
On 17/04/2004, at 8:57 AM, Jim Brokaw wrote:
> on 4/16/04 7:37 AM, Walt Wayman at hiwayman@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> Since I don't recall anyone here mentioning it, I'm wondering if I'm
>> the only
>> one who gets at last two or three e-mails a day that purport to be
>> "Question
>> For Seller" and reference what appears to be an eeekBay auction. I'm
>> strictly
>> a buyer (so far) and have never sold anything on any auction site, so
>> none of
>> these ever refer to anything I have any connection with.
>>
>> Walt
>
> I get them too... I think it is a way for spammers to use the e*ay
> 'Question
> for Seller' feature to spam their auction to the world. Somewhere
> there is
> someone selling a script that lets them send these out by the
> thousands.
> When I -know- that I haven't asked any questions lately, nor do I have
> anything for sale, then I just delete them. I expect that e*ay has some
> reason why they can't tighten their feature up so this isn't possible,
> but
> maybe they just don't care about it...?
> --
>
> Jim Brokaw
> OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...
>
>
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