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Irritated with eBay

I’m hoping maybe some of my blog readers – some of whom I know are eBay users – might be able to help me out. For the second time I have received an e-mail through eBay about someone upset with me for not sending something they’ve paid for etc.

The thing is I’ve never even tried to sell anything on eBay. I don’t think I even have an account with them. A few years ago I was curious and spent a few hours browsing – not sure if I ever actually signed up or not.

I’m getting highly annoyed because these are not spam e-mails. They seem to be coming directly from eBay and link back to the eBay site.

But try reporting fraud on eBay’s site if you’ve never even been guilty of using it. The security center has a zillion links for identity theft, none of which tell me how to find out if someone is passing themselves off as me on eBay. I really don’t have the time to spend hours trying to figure out how to contact this company and report the situation and make sure my good name is cleared.

What if, for example, I wanted to sell some crafts from the craft bank on eBay? I’m going to be considered a crook if someone else is out there pretending to be me.

This is really getting under my skin.

Any suggestions?
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Anonymous said…
eBay is pretty highly targeted for Spam. I've seen some eBay Spam that definitely looked like legit e-mails but weren't. If you don't even have an eBay account, my guess is that's whats happening. But eBay has horrific customer service, so it's probably not worth trying to report. :(
4:57 PM
Unknown said…
Actually, two things come to mind here:

1. It might ACTUALLY BE spam, eventhough it links back to the site. If you don't have an account there, there would be no way of the seller even knowing about you. You can even log into your Ebay account and look at your feedback - if you don't have an account, the seller can't leave you feedback. Plus, if you've never sold anything, nobody can leave you feedback, because the comments, feedback is linked to the specific item the person sold.

2. If you want to sell something, all you would have to do is create a new account later when you need it. Your stats, good or bad, wont carry over to the new accunt.

Hope that helps! :)
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