Amazon emails disappear - How do they do it? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: ez24
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 26, 2016, 05:03:08 am
content: Little background:I bought something on Amazon and it did not fit (a ring for a rifle scope ) and I left a 1 star rating because the ad was wrong. The seller contacted me and confessed they did not know what they were selling. I helped them re-write their ad and deleted my review.They contacted me via Amazon about this. Well anyway there were many emails between us because I was helping them with their ad, and the emails were getting long. I highlighted some old text to trim the email and hit delete, and immediately I was reading my next email in my inbox. I did not know what happened. Well I had enough emails I tried again and again.The last one I just highlighted one word and hit delete and the email was gone. No trace of it, not in Trash not in Spam, no where on my computer. It completely disappeared. When I hit the delete key, immediately I read the next email.My god what is next, an electrical shock, swap team at the door (oh shit I hear a helicopter overhead). I just cannot believe this kind of control over my computer. Can anyone else had this happen or can try this out?Any ideas on how to stop this?Edit - I use Yahoo and I did not delete the email - it was automatically deleted without my control

author: Dago
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 26, 2016, 05:17:56 am
content: Quote from: ez24 on May 26, 2016, 05:03:08 amDon't delete your emails?

author: ez24
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 26, 2016, 05:23:29 am
content: Quote from: Dago on May 26, 2016, 05:17:56 amI am not deleting them - Amazon is. I do not want them to be deleted. They just disappear - no warning, no message nothing, they just disappear. How is this possible?

author: Nerull
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 26, 2016, 05:28:26 am
content: Is this a troll? Do you not know what the delete key does?

author: AndreasF
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 26, 2016, 06:34:21 am
content: Quote from: ez24 on May 26, 2016, 05:03:08 amNot sure what this has to do with Amazon. Granted, it could be a bug with Yahoo (especially if they don't end up in the trash folder), but then it shouldn't be specific to Amazon emails.

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 26, 2016, 09:46:39 am
content: Quote from: ez24 on May 26, 2016, 05:23:29 amIt's not possible. I think that's the point most users here are making. Either you're hitting a hotkey to archive or delete them or Yahoo Mail (not having used it before, so I'm just guessing) just "assumes" you want to do something with that message and "takes care of it for you".Amazon doesn't have access to your e-mails. There is no team of crackers at Amazon that go around wiping evidence. Worst case scenario is your computer is infected with a virus/malware and something else is doing the deleting for you, or, (more likely) it's happening because of some "feature" of YMail.I would first check your keyboard isn't faulty and you're unknowingly hitting SHIFT or CTRL + DELETE instead due to a stuck key.

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 26, 2016, 09:59:21 am
content: Quote from: ez24 on May 26, 2016, 05:03:08 amMy understanding is you CAN'T edit emails, which have been sent to you.If you highlight some text in it and hit delete, it DELETES the email (Yahoo).I just tried it, it says:QuoteYou may have pop ups blocked and/or changed the settings (options) in yahoo to just delete emails, WITHOUT yes/no confirmation.

author: sleemanj
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 26, 2016, 01:04:02 pm
content: Were you trying to edit an email you received, not making a reply and editing the reply, but actually trying to delete parts of an email in your inbox?The holes in othrwise smart people's knowledge is often quite surprising.

author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 26, 2016, 01:18:55 pm
content: Quote from: ez24 on May 26, 2016, 05:23:29 amYou made my day, conspiracy!!!QuoteWith your own hands, mind control

author: Towger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 26, 2016, 02:17:51 pm
content: It is called the 'Cloud'. They are there one minute and gone the next.

author: Farley
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 26, 2016, 02:23:15 pm
content: The emails you deleted should be in your Yahoo Mail "Trash" folder. You can move them back to the inbox.

author: IanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 26, 2016, 03:22:07 pm
content: This comes to mind:https://youtu.be/zADUIwNwglM?t=1m30s

author: suicidaleggroll
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 26, 2016, 04:00:56 pm
content: So...you had an email in your inbox selected, you hit the delete key, the email was deleted, and you think Amazon did it?

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 26, 2016, 04:11:55 pm
content: These comments are really cheering my morning up.Quote from: IanB on May 26, 2016, 03:22:07 pmLOL

author: 71ga
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: August 13, 2019, 08:04:12 am
content: THIShappened to me as well. I have Gmail and I always sort electronic PDF bills to the folder "e-bills". Well when I looked at the folder today I noticed there ain't a trace of emails from my purchases from Amazon! All gone! All guarantees gone. E-bay bills are still there, Thomann bills are all there... This is a big time fraud from Amazon! Maybee they are paying Google & other providers to delete their e-mails in order to save money from returns... Could someone check this?Also e-mails can be HTML formated and I am not sure, but is it possible to set an expiry date somehow?

author: Zucca
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 13, 2019, 08:52:50 am
content: Try to use a local Email client and store your email on C:.I still do not believe it is happening.Reading this makes me happy since I switched toFastMail.

author: AndyC_772
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 13, 2019, 08:54:31 am
content: https://mashable.com/2018/04/27/new-gmail-expiring-emails-confidential-mode

author: soldar
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 13, 2019, 01:18:08 pm
content: Expiring emails just send you a link to a page where the email is kept, they do not send you the actual email. That page can be deleted at any time but you will still have the email you received with the link. Your side has to delete that. Nobody can delete an email from my side over the internet. Only I can do that.That is one reason I keep my stuff in my computer. There is no "cloud"; there is only computers you have control over and computers that are controlled by others. I prefer to keep my things under my control.If anyone would send me that type of email I would never get to read it at all. My email client would not download it and I would not even try.

author: Rick Law
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 14, 2019, 06:12:18 pm
content: EDIT:I misunderstood the original post. Reply (quoted below) doesn't below here, considered it deleted.I started a new thread instead so as not to hijack someone else's discussionRickQuote from: Rick Law on August 14, 2019, 06:12:18 pm

author: soldar
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 14, 2019, 09:35:40 pm
content: Rick, that seems like a totally different issue from the OP.

author: Rick Law
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 15, 2019, 02:45:17 am
content: Quote from: soldar on August 14, 2019, 09:35:40 pmYeah, you are right - thanks for the heads up. I did not read carefully the first time around! I saw missing email and switched gear into wondering why my email was missing... I guess I am not as perfect as I thought...I will post that as a separate thread.