[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Ebay issue

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 19 July 2005 00:35, Neil Morrison wrote:
>There is no doubt that eBay has real problems with fraud and the
> like. However, to get the seller's contact info you can place a bid
> on the item then request the info. You can then cancel the bid for
> some specious reason if you need to do that.
>
>As for the computer they send to, I use Hotmail accounts for eBay
> and Paypal so I can access the info from anywhere.
>
>Neil

I've never gone to that much trouble to obfuscate who I am.  It just 
doesn't seem worth the hassle of maintaining a dummy account and 
servicing it.

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
>
>> Good luck getting it Neil.  I've found them to be very very
>> difficult to deal with when you've bought something and they
>> insist on sending the sales data and contact info ONLY to your
>> home account, in this case over 2000 miles from where I was on a
>> (spit) winblows box.  They cost me almost a week and the tv
>> station I was playing fireman at probably $70,000 or more in lost
>> revenue when I needed a mylex scsi card to fix a disk based
>> commercial server that was down, and no tape backups.  Only when I
>> had our attorney commit a little barritry by threatening to sue,
>> with the damages accrueing by the hour, did they relent and give
>> me the sellers email and landline data so I could arrange to
>> overnight a check, and get the card back the same way.
>>
>> I have had less than pleasant feelings about ebay since. 
>> Something pertaining to them, and the camel that rode in on them
>> if you get my drift.
>
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