 So wait...
Here's something I haven't quite wrapped my head around even though I've seen it mentioned a few times now here. What do you mean by 'don't open the emails' but "If you need to, you can simply reply to an email and it will reach the customer, not eBay."? This seems to contradict. Do you mean that it's ok to open the emails in your own email account, just don't respond to them through the ebay "respond" link on that email? That would make sense to me. I don't understand how it would be a problem to open an email just to view it, just as long as you don't actually "do" anything with it through the ebay system. Your email should be your own private business. It's pretty unnerving that ebay could actually trace you back simply from the fact that you happened to open an email on your own email account. I've never had that problem with any other company spamming me if I don't click on their link. So why would ebay be able to trace you if that's all you're doing? But the moment you click that link, watch out!
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