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Would eBay sell email addresses?
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Original Message
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Name: doghead
Date: July 23, 2004 at 12:46:16 Pacific
Subject: Would eBay sell email addresses?OS: W98seCPU/Ram: P3/450/128/13 |
Comment: eBay, esnipe, PayPal, all those outfits... do you think they would flog your email address to various parties???
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Response Number 1
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Name: Lesley
Date: July 23, 2004 at 12:55:04 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)doghead I'm quite sure that eBay and PayPal would not - it would contravene their own Privacy Policy I'm not familiar with esnipe Lesley
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Response Number 3
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Name: bbqbeef
Date: July 23, 2004 at 14:03:33 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)the companies wouldn't, but the employees might steal them. remember AOL a few months ago?
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Response Number 5
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Name: Lesley
Date: July 24, 2004 at 04:07:11 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I don't think it would be worth their while to deliberately sell Addresses - both eBay and PayPal have millions of customers - as soon as it became apparent that would be the end of them because people would fear for their Credit Card Details also! That's not to say that the Addresses could not be stolen - that is a risk at any Site to whom you give your Address - including this one! But - the original question was whether the eBay and PayPal themselves would sell Addresses and to that I still say no Lesley
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Response Number 6
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Name: tommy o
Date: July 24, 2004 at 06:33:28 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Hello everyone; hope all is well!
My past experiences with both E-bay and Pay Pal, have all been positive. I've never encountered any known problems on my end.
I agree with Lesley in that their reputation would be shot if they divulged personal info. But, in computerland, who knows??
By the way...what is "Esnipe"? I've never heard of that one yet..
Take care, everybody...enjoy your weekend!
~Tommyo
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Response Number 7
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Name: bigbuns
Date: August 11, 2004 at 07:54:17 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Hmmm, Well PayPal have no problem with limiting peoples accounts for no reason and don't seem to care about doing so....
It is certainly true that ebay and Paypal are very greedy! list something on ebay and they charge you to list it, sell something on ebay and they charge you a final value fee on top of your listing fee. accept the payment via paypal and guess what, ebay charge you for the transaction.
One of these days, they will sell their emails just like the credit card companies sell postal addresses offline.. Get rid of Ebay and PayPal I say
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