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Michael Soldan

01-24-2005 20:29:46




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I hooked up to do a bit of bidding on e-bay around Christmas time and I am beginning to find e-bay very intrusive. I got an e-bay tool bar across the top of my screen all the time and I didn't do anything to get it there. I get pop-ups, up-date toolbar notices and my e-mail is always full of stuff from e-bay. I know people who buy and sell a lot like having pop-ups to tell them when an auction is ending but I am getting the feeling that e-bay is taking over my computer. One seller stated in her item description that she had listed her e-mail so you could contact her without e-bay monitoring the messages...now that is intrusive...maybe e-bay isn't for me but I am not pleased with the intrusiveness that I am getting...anyone else????..... ..Mike in Exeter Ontario

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gusc

01-25-2005 15:03:05




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 Re: O/T Ebay in reply to Michael Soldan, 01-24-2005 20:29:46  
Adaware and Spybot are the best and will get rid of most pests.

Also you might go to your Cookie Manager and eliminate all cookies.



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Novel Idea Guy

01-25-2005 08:03:44




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 Re: O/T Ebay in reply to Michael Soldan, 01-24-2005 20:29:46  
Unfortunately, you unwittingly invited all that stuff on to your computer. It pays to read CAREFULLY when you sign up for an account on an online service like ebay. You signed up for the messages, you installed the toolbar, you activated the popups.



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Jay (ND)

01-25-2005 06:49:44




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 Re: O/T Ebay in reply to Michael Soldan, 01-24-2005 20:29:46  
One thing to NEVER do: Never respond to an email from Ebay or Paypal that asks you to verify your account information. They are 100% of the time scams. They will look like they came from ebay or paypal and they sound legit, but they aren't.

Ebay & Paypal both have a policy to never contact a user through email about their account. If they need to update your account, you will know about it when you sign in to their websites.

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Brian in NY

01-25-2005 06:02:04




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 Re: O/T Ebay in reply to Michael Soldan, 01-24-2005 20:29:46  
Hey, go to the top of your internet explorer page, select the view option, you will then see a toolbars option, and you will see the ebay toolbar listed. Simply remove the check mark and you will be golden. Should not receive ebay popups as they are generated by the toolbar browser.

Also check your ebay account preferences you should be able to stop the emails, and if not, go to the bottom of one of the emails they send you and there should be (in very fine print) a message stating something like "if you do not wish to continue to receive emails from ebay click this link" etc....

Good luck

I have been using ebay for many years and receive NO emails unless I am bidding on something, and NO pop ups.

One other piece of advice..if anyone wants to do business "outside" of ebay, avoid them like the plague...they are most likely fruadulent.

Not in every case but might as well play it safe.
Unless the seller is right near you where you can do the deal in person.

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jonesy

01-25-2005 05:52:15




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 Re: O/T Ebay in reply to Michael Soldan, 01-24-2005 20:29:46  
Youve somehow allowed your computers firewall to accept Ebay popups. That will also allow spyware and addware to get it. You need to purchase a popup/addware/spyware program to combat these problems. These will make your computer bog down real slow and kill the performance. I picked up a version called PestPatrol and have been very happy with it. The first scan I pefromed it detected and deleted 135 pests.

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catmandoo

01-25-2005 06:04:24




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 Re: O/T Ebay in reply to jonesy, 01-25-2005 05:52:15  
you can download spybot. for free,first time i ran it i had like 200 spyware adware etc,also sometimes when the kids download music i start getting pop-ups from hell as they have to turn the firewall off to do it,lots of time i have to go into add/remove programs and delete.some of them spy addware pop-ups can be a pain to get rid of,i had one on my last computer that after i would delete it and restart the computer it would reload itself,took me forever to get rid of that thing.

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MagMan

01-25-2005 04:46:53




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 Re: O/T Ebay in reply to Michael Soldan, 01-24-2005 20:29:46  
Hi Mike , I my self kind of like the different emails. If you right click on the toolbar Item I beleve there should be a prefference and you can put in what you want to recieve or not recieve. Sometimes the little pop ups get anoying saying how much time is left. But you can stop them as well. The thing I like about the tool bar is running in IE you can verify if you are on an ebay site. And being that I was taken for info once becuase of a very good email I recieved that I thought was from ebay I will always respond with the tool bar to see if its a scam now or not the little box turns colors telling if its approved or not. JON

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Nebraska Cowman

01-25-2005 04:14:32




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 Re: O/T Ebay in reply to Michael Soldan, 01-24-2005 20:29:46  
yes, I had that ebay toolbar and had to get rid of it cuz it was slowing my computer down.



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Bob

01-24-2005 20:57:42




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 Re: O/T Ebay in reply to Michael Soldan, 01-24-2005 20:29:46  
I don't know if ebay Canada is the same as ebay here, but I remember a popup that asked if I wanted to install an ebay toolbar, and I clicked "NO". If you can't find a place in your ebay preferences to get rid of the toolbar,have you tried "deleting ALL offline content", and clearing history and deleting cookies from your browser?

As far as the "ebay" emails, I bet most of them are "phishing" emails from scam artists, rather than actually from ebay.

I was recently the buyer in 2 separate auctions where the sellers INSISTED in sending my payment information to me with that damn ebay email system, even though my ISP tends to reject those emails as "spam". That is the first time that has happened, most sellers would just as soon email direct as put up with that ebay email nonsense.

I sure miss the "old days" on ebay, where there was more direct contact between buyer and seller. With the "old iron" categories I deal in, I have found most ebayer's to be honest, and upstanding, yet ebay forces the same stuff on us they force on everyone else!

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