EBAY emails - opening , using , getting tracked , issues / non-issues

**aspkin** · #23 04-30-2007

wow, that's odd. What country are you from?

ifreewillie · #24 04-30-2007

Actually, ebay will request a credit card verification if you have created an ebay account on that particular ip address. (i.e. first time will be no verfication, but if you try to create another right away, it will ask for it). But then again, I was using yahoo/hotmail emails.

FeeBay Balling · #25 05-01-2007

As Modee said AOL is free and ebay does not recognize it any differently as least right now. But what I do notice is that wehn you sign up for a new account thru aol when the register page loads it grabs the header information as your email address is already prefilled by ebay.

Jonas · #26 05-01-2007

How much info does ebay grab from you if you register using AOL?

Jonas · #27 05-12-2007

More than half buyers don't have working email addresses. They have emails with spam filters or something else that deletes or hides all incoming email. Or else they never check their email and only check ebay messaging. Often they always check ebay messaging (which is something I ignore because as a seller I'll have tons in there and it's very slow to read email on ebay's website as opposed to predownloaded emails).

So anyone want to take a crack in theory as to why this is?

**aspkin** · #28 05-12-2007

I send emails to past customers which are in the tens of thousands every week. And about 1/4 of the people ever open a message that takes me at least an hour to create usually more. I feel your pain!

The thing with eBay is, eBay sends a lot of spam to a person's inbox already, and me personally I used to miss messages from sellers and buyers that directly responded to me in this way. I usually missed it with the rest of eBay spam I had. I simply ignored it. But that's just me.

Jonas · #29 05-12-2007

People have to turn off the preferences to stop ebay from spamming them.

**aspkin** · #30 05-12-2007

Most people don't mess with it though. :/

Ballsack · #31 05-14-2007

It seems some will and some won't. TIA

jamesy · #32 05-15-2007

from my experience you get asked for a credit card around 1 in 10 times you register regardless of which email you use. it's something they do randomly I think

Ballsack · #33 05-15-2007

I see. So it's not normal practice cause I was asked for it by simply opening an account. I guess I'll try again.

FeeBay Balling · #34 05-15-2007

RCreating accounts used to go thru like clockwork in the past (I use AOL for this) Recently they have been asking for CC info to verify your identity... Not really a big worry as you get a simon card ahead of time for this.

The real issue will be what happens if they want you to verify yourself using a SS#.. then that is going to be messy. I steps to get ahead of that go to the irs website and request a TIN # at least this way you can have a number ready.

Also open up a business and get a tax ID number.

Jonas · #35 05-15-2007

You get as many TIN#'s as you want?

Ballsack · #36 05-15-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by FeeBay Balling

RCreating accounts used to go thru like clockwork in the past (I use AOL for this) Recently they have been asking for CC info to verify your identity... Not really a big worry as you get a simon card ahead of time for this.

The real issue will be what happens if they want you to verify yourself using a SS#.. then that is going to be messy. I steps to get ahead of that go to the irs website and request a TIN # at least this way you can have a number ready.

Also open up a business and get a tax ID number.

That's fine by me. I believe yahoo asks for SSN regardless of whether you're a seller or buyer. All this will do is drive up the competition to the point where you don't have to rely on ebay in the future.

ihatebay · #37 08-02-2007

I have about 3-4 ebay accounts I use at the same time and I check my emails using outlook express. I do set it to read in TEXT mode but when I hit REPLY the message turns into Rich Text/HTML. Some of these email accounts are from my suspended user ID's (b/c I still have customers on them I need to keep them active)

I have opened Ebay emails/replied to Ebay emails when it is rich text/full of "cookies" I guess and have stayed active for more than 3-4 months on Ebay at a time.

I can't figure out if checking your HTML/RICH text emails on outlook express will result in suspension (esp. when working on several ID's at once)

? My own experience says that it doesn't, or if it does they are slow to catch on...

Anyone else thinks the same? (that checking different ebay accounts emails using outlook express and reading them in rich text doesn't affect you)

Chris Hanson · #38 08-02-2007

Look i can tell you that as long as you erase your cookies after you check your email your fine. I have images enabled and I check my email with 4 diffrent ebay accounts on the same ip , but 1 got suspended but my other accounts have been still up and running.

So just erase everything before you log back in

**aspkin** · #39 08-03-2007

Have you read this thread yet?

http://www.aspkin.com/forums/ebay-su...what-else.html

aaa1 · #40 08-08-2007

I have a new account and I only ever open email from ebay on their site. I've been going back and forth with this one woman over an item. Well, today I opened up my email account that is linked to a suspended account. This woman wrote an email to me there!! What the?!? I have NO idea how she got a hold of that address. I didn't open it, but i'm pretty freaked out. There was also an invoice notice from ebay that I did not open (I figure that is standard email to all accounts they have on file). I checked all pp and new ebay accounts and NOWHERE does this old email exist. Any ideas?

**aspkin** · #41 08-08-2007

If you reply directly to a notice from eBay that you received a new message, the reply will be sent to the buyer or seller's email address. Directly meaning from your email address you did the reply. That's what this lady did. I hate when buyers do this.

Van Player · #42 08-27-2007

ok.. so we all have been using AOL's browser for IP protection. great....

my questions is this: if I click on an EB link (to an specific EB item listed) in an email from PP sent to my gmail address (which is the webmail i use with my new EB seller account).. and then an new AOL web-browser opens to EB, that shows the EB item that I clicked on, and shows me as logged in as the seller ... will that expose my real IP to EB? or is it still cloaked in AOL browser's proxy?

Of course, I am logged into the same EB seller account earlier in AOL browser. I think thats why when the new AOL web browser window opened to dispaly that specific EB item, it also showed me as logged in as the seller. However, I don;t think they can link me to any other account that i have, since I delete "ALL FOOTPRINT" in AOL always after each session, and only log into one account each session, so everything should all match up. Im just concerned about the real IP vs AOL IP problem in viewing and clicking on links in EB and PP emails in gmail.

the problem with gmail is that it does blocking of the images, but does not disable links in emails. I wish there was some way of doing that. if anyone knows of any good ways, please let me know.

Thanks to all forum gurus. You guys have been great help in understanding how EB and PP works.

DogFacedBoy · #43 08-28-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by Van Player

ok.. so we all have been using AOL's browser for IP protection. great....

my questions is this: if I click on an EB link (to an specific EB item listed) in an email from PP sent to my gmail address (which is the webmail i use with my new EB seller account).. and then an new AOL web-browser opens to EB, that shows the EB item that I clicked on, and shows me as logged in as the seller ... will that expose my real IP to EB? or is it still cloaked in AOL browser's proxy?

Of course, I am logged into the same EB seller account earlier in AOL browser. I think thats why when the new AOL web browser window opened to dispaly that specific EB item, it also showed me as logged in as the seller. However, I don;t think they can link me to any other account that i have, since I delete "ALL FOOTPRINT" in AOL always after each session, and only log into one account each session, so everything should all match up. Im just concerned about the real IP vs AOL IP problem in viewing and clicking on links in EB and PP emails in gmail.

the problem with gmail is that it does blocking of the images, but does not disable links in emails. I wish there was some way of doing that. if anyone knows of any good ways, please let me know.

Thanks to all forum gurus. You guys have been great help in understanding how EB and PP works.

Some great questions.
I think there is an option in gmail to "display all images" or similar

You are using the AOL browser to access EB...I have an AOL email that is just registered at EB.

What is the procedure for going out into cyberspace with the AOL browser? Do you have to pay for this feature?

Thanks

JackNoMore · #44 08-28-2007

I wouldn't do it. I believe this is how I had one of my accounts suspended a while back. AOL is good for some things, but I wouldn't use them for direct email contact.