I'm definitely not closed minded, trust me on this. I wouldn't have figured out most of eBay's systems if I was. I say most because I believe I don't know 100% of eBay. I have recently stopped being active when it comes with eBay. Since my items can not be sold on eBay anymore. I wrote about it in an earlier post. I simply can't list my items anymore, and they're not illegal, they're virtual currencies for online games. Like World of Warcraft gold, Everquest II gold and more. EBay in the past would let us sale, but as a few weeks ago, no one can. That's actually not a bad thing, since my business has many websites dedicated to selling game currency, and since there is less competition from eBay, we're doing well. But that's something else. Just letting you know, I do not sale anymore on eBay and thus have fallen behind on what's new with eBay.
Though I believe I know enough to help people out, and that's why I opened this forum. And with the things I don't know, there are people like you to have their input. I respect your observation but I humbly disagree.
And yes it's true; it's very hard to keep your account if you're clumsily about what you do. But I don't believe eBay has cookies in their emails. I'm sure they have beacons, but cookies I'm 99% sure they don't have. And I'm sure there is a security issue here about allowing cookies to be downloaded from an email if it were true.
I said this before, but let me say it again. Once you're suspended by eBay, don't mess with any emails associated with those accounts. If you need to, you can simply reply to an email and it will reach the customer, not eBay. Dump your email address, and open a new one to use with eBay. This is one of the reasons to open new yahoo or gmail account. Gmail is best because of it's being able to forward to other emails. I used this feature consistently. I would forward my emails to a central email address, which then we would open any emails, read them and reply if necessary. Note, all eBay emails would be forward to one central email address, our customer service email. We used the same central email address for each eBay account we had, and replied using the same person (computer). If there were cookies in the emails, eBay would be able to connect the dots and suspend our accounts, but that never happened.
But I believe you there are web beacons in emails, heck I use them my self. If you believe they're for spying okay, that's fine, but to me they're only used to keep track of who opens emails, and if someone clicks on any links, but that's it.
As a test to give your theory more proof, could you delete your browser cookies, and open an eBay email? Without going to eBay.com, do you have any eBay cookies?
-Aspkin
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