Ebay sharing email and personal data when you just bid on something now? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Jwalling
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 12, 2019, 09:12:04 pm
content: This is a bit disturbing.I bid on this:https://www.ebay.com/itm/401882286743?And within 30 seconds (obviously automated) I got an email from jt@bidadoo.com to my *real* email address from the seller and they address me by my first name!WTF is this?Quote

author: Stray Electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2019, 09:28:23 pm
content: That seems fishy to me. For YEARS, Ebay has tried to hide the bidders and sellers E-mail addresses, phone numbers, and names from each other so that they can't make a deal outside of E-bay.I would suggest sending an E-mail to the seller , VIA E-AY, and asking them if they sent you the message and if that is their E-mail address and how they got your E-mail address. Be polite and explain that you just want to know if the message that you got was legit.OTOH did you bid via a proxy bid system? Maybe the E-mail came from them or maybe their system has been hacked.Other possibility, Have you bought from that seller before? Maybe that's how they know your name and E-mail address.

author: klunkerbus
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 12, 2019, 10:07:43 pm
content: Seems to me that it could be a canned message automatically sent by eBay for the seller.EDIT: Do you see a message in your eBay account that has the same context?

author: edpalmer42
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2019, 10:19:42 pm
content: Check the email headers. You should be able to figure out whether the email came direct from bidadoo or via ebay.Bidadoo appears to be a big outfit based on their ratings and many sales of > $10K each, even a few > $100K, so it's unlikely that this particular seller is working a scam. But I wouldn't like to think that ebay is quite that free with my data.Ed

author: Ismsanmar
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2019, 10:29:54 pm
content: Quote from: Stray Electron on September 12, 2019, 09:28:23 pmThat's not quite right. Until the entry of the GDPR you could request that eBay sent you the registration data of a user with whom you had recently made a transaction, even before you made the payment. Those data included the full name and telephone number, but not the email. Now that option is gone.Maybe it's a new feature for PowerSellers?.

author: StillTrying
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2019, 10:30:15 pm
content: Did you bid $500.00

author: TheSteve
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 12, 2019, 10:37:46 pm
content: I am sure it is a feature power sellers get and is sent via ebay automagically - or maybe they have even more features then a power seller.Seems odd Boeing sold a 3458a though if it was working 100% - is this how they are paying for the 737 rework?

author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 12, 2019, 11:06:28 pm
content: Quote from: TheSteve on September 12, 2019, 10:37:46 pmDoubt that. Now even seller/buyer email address is hidden on paypal transactions made on ebay. And before purchase it was never available. On top of that in TOS ebay strictly forbids exchanging contact information. Even if ebay gives such contact information, not to some usual power sellers.

author: sleemanj
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2019, 12:24:24 am
content: Maybe you bought from them or some other seller who is under the same umbrella in the past and so they have your details from that sale on file.

author: coromonadalix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2019, 01:52:49 am
content: Annnd the price has gone up loll

author: Stray Electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2019, 02:22:00 am
content: Quote from: Ismsanmar on September 12, 2019, 10:29:54 pmI don't know what GDPR is but Ebay hasn't sent user information for YEARS. Very early on, they sent it to each party at the end of the auction but they stopped that. Then for some years you could still request the information about the other party from E-bay but only if both of you had completed an auction. But they stopped that probably close to 10 years ago and since then they do their best to prevent the buyer and seller from exchanging E-mail addresses and the like. Their message system is monitored and if you send anything that even remotely looks like an E-mail address, Ebay will reject the message and return it to the sender with a nasty-gram.

author: Stray Electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2019, 02:23:49 am
content: Quote from: coromonadalix on September 13, 2019, 01:52:49 amIt was bound to! The last one that I saw on E-bay sold for $2750 and it didn't even turn on. That was on Sept 5th.Things like this don't sneak by on E-bay. There's too many people looking for them.

author: Peabody
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2019, 03:59:54 am
content: This happened to me recently too. I put an item on my watch list, and a bit later got an email from the seller offering some kind of extra discount on the item. I called Ebay to ask why I was getting spam from the seller, and the lady said it was a setting in the seller's listing. I asked if there was a setting I could make to turn off such spam, and was told there was not. As far as I'm concerned, this is a new buyer-hostile practice, and I'm really disappointed in Ebay. To be fair, I'm not sure the seller actually knows my email address. But spam is spam.

author: Zucca
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 13, 2019, 02:00:54 pm
content: Quote from: Jwalling on September 12, 2019, 09:12:04 pmYes! Since you had nothing to sell next time better to post in "General Chat".

author: Jwalling
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 13, 2019, 03:46:22 pm
content: 1. Did not bid through a proxy bid system.2. Never bought from them before. (I keep all my records)3. There's no references to Ebay or it's servers in the full headers of the message.Quote4. No messages from them in Ebay's message center.5. Yes, I bid $500.There's lots of stuff for a few bucks, maybe someone else can throw a bid in and see what happens?https://www.ebay.com/sch/bidadoo_business/m.html?item=401882286743&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 13, 2019, 03:54:22 pm
content: They were allowed to publish their contact data in their ebay store:http://www.ebaystores.com/bidadooinc/faq.htmlhttp://www.ebaystores.com/bidadooinc/contact.htmlSo they should have some individual deal with ebay. Because normally it's strictly forbidden.Quote

author: Stray Electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2019, 09:09:33 pm
content: Quote from: Peabody on September 13, 2019, 03:59:54 amThat seems to be one of E-bay's new "Features". I looked at two items this week and saved them in my watch list and a short while later I got an offer of a Buy It Now for about 20% off of their listed BIN prices. I don't think these came from the seller and I doubt that the seller has my E-mail address, these seem to be a sales gimmick generated by E-bay.

author: Illusionist
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2019, 09:23:12 pm
content: Quote from: wraper on September 13, 2019, 03:54:22 pmI think business sellers arerequiredto do so. If you look at any (I just checked a few) you can see their full business and contact details. Personal sellers, on the other hand, are forbidden from doing so.

author: StillTrying
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2019, 10:02:28 pm
content: Quote from: Jwalling on September 13, 2019, 03:46:22 pmI only knew because it was the only bid there at first.I don't know what this bit means:Item description:Item Title:Agilent 3458A Digital Multimeter DMM 8.5 Digit Calibration Test Measure bidadooBid activity (%) with this seller: 4%= "This shows the percentage of all bids from this bidder that went to this specific seller."edit: I think the 4% must be = 1 of 25 of your total number of bids, or something.I used to to get email offers on things I'd browsed while logged in to ebay, and on things I'd already bought, but I turned the spam off, I just get the order confirmations now.

author: edavid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2019, 10:36:46 pm
content: Note about this seller: If you open an eBay case against them, or if you leave negative feedback, they will ban you

author: Stray Electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 14, 2019, 01:29:08 am
content: Quote from: edavid on September 13, 2019, 10:36:46 pmI don't suppose that you want to tell use how you KNOW that?They might "ban" you from bidding on their auctions but they can't ban you from E-bay. And actually I don't think that they or anyone else can stop you from bidding on their items but they can cancel your bid. At least that's how E-bay used to work.If I had to open a case against a bidder, I doubt that I'd be bidding on any more of their auctions so them "banning" me wouldn't be a lose as far as I'm concerned.

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 14, 2019, 04:48:26 am
content: Quote from: Stray Electron on September 14, 2019, 01:29:08 amEBay allows Sellers to set up a "blocked bidders list" - and have done for years.If a Buyer on such a list tries to bid or buy, they get a message telling them that the Seller has blocked them.The crazy thing is that this list is based on the ID of the account - not the account itself. If you simply change the ID of your account, you can bid and buy to your heart's content. (You can see what IDs an eBayer has used by going to their full feedback page and clicking on the "View ID history" link at the right near the top.)

author: edavid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 14, 2019, 03:06:00 pm
content: Quote from: Stray Electron on September 14, 2019, 01:29:08 amExperienceQuoteAs Brumby has pointed out, you are wrong about this.QuoteAn overseas friend asked me to bid on some of their items. (I didn't know about the changing the user ID trick - thanks for the tip.)

author: Seekonk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 14, 2019, 06:35:01 pm
content: I can't be sure, but I got a direct offer from a manufacturer. That item was on a watch list on my ebay. I had only put it in my watch list and never bid. There are spies everywhere, but ebay has gotten strange lately. Search is about useless with them pushing items that don't even match my search criteria. If I search for items less than $100 there will always be several $1500 items included.

author: StasMa
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: October 09, 2019, 01:15:16 pm
content: always happens

author: StasMa
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: November 05, 2019, 01:19:45 pm
content: Salesforce provides many flexible options for you to control how records are shared within your org. To specify the objects and tabs that a user can access, assign a profile. To specify the individual records that a user can view and edit, set your org-wide defaults, define a role hierarchy, and create sharing rules.