posted on November 12, 2000 07:02:33 PM
I have had three bidders this month who had mail bouncing. I got with safeharbor, and THEY tell me I must got to MY ISP because there apparently is spam coming out of A mailcity account, ergo ALL mailcity mail is being filtered and bounced. Does that make sense or is this a new twist that the deadbeats have given safeharbor? I've had deadbeats put on the filter to my specific account to avoid payment in the past. They get the notices from ebay about winning the bid, never bother to try to contact, and I can't get through. Any thoughts on this or personal experiences?
posted on November 13, 2000 03:30:26 AM
mailcity.com is notorious for being used by spammers for "drop boxes" to collect replies. They are blocked by many ISPs for that reason ... a public nuisance.
Go to the auction and use the "mail to a friend" feature and send that way.
posted on November 14, 2000 08:28:57 PM
I have sent repeated emails from another site AND from the ebay listing site. Ebay site gets posted with my registered address and bounces, other site gets no response. I got email asking where to send the money, but when I replied it bounced. It looked to me like this guy may have done this so he could SAY he had responed. It looks really suspicious. If he had responded to my other site I might have given the benifit of the doubt. I'm wondering about offering to the next highest bidder and giving a neg.. What would you do?
Ebay safeharbor says they contacted him and his email works for them. OK, what is their definition of "Functioning" email? Is it just for them, or does it include the seller? I was told by safeharbor that I should contact MY ISP because this guy is filtering, but what good will that do? I'm not sending spam. Even then, it doesn't explain no response from my other address. Ebay says, well maybe he's "afraid" to respond to something other than my other address. GIVE ME A BREAK!!!
posted on November 14, 2000 08:37:44 PMbecause there apparently is spam coming out of A mailcity account, ergo ALL mailcity mail is being filtered and bounced. Does that make sense
Yes.
Don't know about the deadbeats, but this makes sense. One is known by the company one keeps.
posted on November 14, 2000 09:43:31 PM
Some ISP's simply block email from entire other ISP's - mindspring.com, for example, is apparently blocking all email from anybody at msn.com.
posted on November 14, 2000 10:29:10 PM
This is just causing more problems when they do this. I'm not getting any response from the other web site. It looks like a deadbeat hiding behind the spam excuse. Should I neg 'em ?
posted on November 15, 2000 03:34:47 AM
College park -
If they do not respond to request fro payment sent form the listing page, and if you explained that is was because your ISP was being blocked, FILE THE NPB request and see what shakes loose
posted on November 15, 2000 04:31:46 AM
I don't know about the other services but AOL allows you to block mail from certain people and certain ISPs. I always thought this was a good thing, because you make the decision who you want to block. That is, until I blocked all hotmail because I was getting too many spams from x-rated sites through them (girls, girls, girls? I am a girl. I've yet to see men, men, men ). I won an auction and the seller couldn't get an email through to me. I never noticed she had a hotmail account nor did I remember that I had blocked all of hotmail. Fortunately, she called me on the phone and we were able to have a good laugh over it. I really wanted the product I had won and would have really been upset had I been given a negative rating because I was trying to protect myself from certain types of email. That was back in my "new to the net" days. Now, rather than blocking them (it's fruitless anyway, they keep changing their names and ISPs) I can recognize them and just delete them. My point is, I don't think an ISP has the right (especially if I'm paying for that service) to block email from me. I think that should be a decision I make. I hate SPAMS as much as the next person, but no one ever said the net was exempt from such things. Wish I could "block" all the SPAM mail I get through the USPS. . . Thanks for giving me another thing to think about. I never knew there were so many ways a bidder could avoid paying until I read all the threads here. My question is, why bother bidding if you aren't going to pay? Is there some thrill to it that I don't know about?
