[78-L] eBay Censorship

[David Lennick]

And eBay sellers are advised not to accept off-list offers (perish the 
thought..I'd never do that!).

dl

On 12/22/2012 11:35 PM, Mike Harkin wrote:
> I can see their point about safety of buyer&  seller, but my bet  is it's more to do with the
> security off e-barf's PROFITon every deal.  Can't have people doing deals between them-
> selves&  cutting e-barf out.  The last,self-serving line of that paragraph is a dead giveaway:  "... It also helps ensure that transactions happen ON eBAY so buyers and sellers are covered by eBay protection programs. "  [emphasis added].  Altruism, however,
> my sainted grandmother!
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> Seasons' greetings to all!
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> Mike in Plovdiv
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> --- On Sun, 12/23/12, marimbamoods at comcast.net<marimbamoods at comcast.net>  wrote:
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> From: marimbamoods at comcast.net<marimbamoods at comcast.net>
> Subject: [78-L] eBay Censorship
> To: "List Mail 78-L"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Sunday, December 23, 2012, 2:49 AM
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> i just contacted an eBay 78 seller to ask for a photo of the reverse label of a record he listed. he replied promptly, requesting my emil address so he could email the photo to me.
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> when i replied to him and included my email address, my message was blocked by eBay with the following statement:
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> "For your safety, eBay does not allow the exchange of email addresses in member to member communications . This protects both buyers and sellers by keeping a track record of communications. It also helps ensure that transactions happen on eBay so buyers and sellers are covered by eBay protection programs.
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> Please remove the email address and resend your message."
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> in an attempt to avoid eBay's censorship, i then tried to send the info this way:
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> 1) marimbamoods
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> 2) @
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> 3) comcast
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> 4) .net
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> once again, eBay blocked my message with the same policy statement.
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> i did then manage to successfully get the harmless info through the eBay sphincter-block, but only by sending four separate messages - each containing one individual part of the above "code."
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> is that bizarre or what? talk about big brother . . .
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> david harvey
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