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Author: C2thew
Date: 2006-08-07 16:35
I recently put up a wanted post for a selmer 10g clarinet bell and barrel, and i've recently been contacted by 3 people who want to do the a 3rd party shipment. they claim they have the item, but wont send pictures, won't send it from their house, and seem to say "friend..." far too much. whoever is the webdesigner for this site, can you please put up an ebay number generator so people can just stop copying and pasting your email with these scams?
one of my all time favorite emails
[ trashed. I don't need 200 lines of scam here. I also don't want to have to coordinate the buying & selling of items via emails sent through this site. The Classifieds are there 'gratis' - don't use them if it's too much bother. Mark C. ]
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Author: C2thew
Date: 2006-08-08 00:37
the fact is that the contact information is too readily available to people who just want to copy and paste the email and set up a scam. what ebay does is create a random 6 digit number generator where the sender has to input the numbers to send the message. or at least safeguard your email address. imagine if someone got a hold of your email address and took advantage of you. just stating that security is a tad loose and ought to be fixed. there are many people who value this forum, and many people who take advantage of it. scamming people discourages alot of people from using the classified ads.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. they are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive as railroads lead to Boston to New York
-Walden; Henry Thoreau
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2006-08-08 00:54
C2thew wrote:
> the fact is that the contact information is too readily
> available to people who just want to copy and paste the email
> and set up a scam..
I know what eBay does. I don't have the time or inclination right now (and, BTW, I have a special eBay email address that gets plenty of spam).
It's unfortunate about scams and spams, but the effort to fight it just isn't worthwhile.
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2006-08-08 00:59
While an email obfuscation or forwarding system is nice, I personally have found it quite beneficial to have a set of temporary email addresses. I'll assign one to anything very public and email-harvestable, and if it gets picked up by spammers, I ditch the email address.
Of course, I do it the easy way... with my own domain, I create a new email forwarder for literally every service I sign up for. It all ends up in my inbox, but nobody sees my master email address. This reduces the collateral damage of me ditching an address to effectively nil, and has the added bonus of letting me know exactly where the address was picked up by the spammers. Once I know it's someone I actually want to do business with, I reply with the address I actually use.
While a layer of privacy provided by the service is nice, the system I have set up gives me total control of the privacy mechanisms. I find the hosting/registration fees (which I pay anyways for my site) and the extra few seconds for each new forwarder well worth it as a way to almost totally eliminate spam from my inbox.
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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