Invasion of Privacy

This thread was not really about spam as it was about ebay selling our previous search data along with our contact information.

The marketer sells lathes and milling machines which was a favourite ebay search of mine several years back, the marketer signed me up on his web site with a user id ebay_gustavus1 with the email address I use on ebay for my account which makes it pretty obvious my search data along with contact information my email address was sold for profit.



Ebay claims to protect our privacy which is a crock.

I know how to deal with spam but no idea how to enforce ebay's privacy policy.

As I have elected not to share my information with third party's on the ebay site selling my data should not have happened.

Originally Posted by alloy2

This thread was not really about spam as it was about ebay selling our previous search data along with our contact information.

The marketer sells lathes and milling machines which was a favourite ebay search of mine several years back, the marketer signed me up on his web site with a user id ebay_gustavus1 with the email address I use on ebay for my account which makes it pretty obvious my search data along with contact information my email address was sold for profit.

Ebay claims to protect our privacy which is a crock.

I know how to deal with spam but no idea how to enforce ebay's privacy policy.

As I have elected not to share my information with third party's on the ebay site selling my data should not have happened.

If you feel it's as much as a breech of privacy as it sounds, I would get in touch with Ebay about it. It must be a random occurrence because I've been with Ebay off and on since Ebay came into existence and I've never had my info given to a third party. I have ran into ebay accounts that operate for a company but aren't affiliated with or work for the company their operating for. I wish you the best of luck in getting it straightened out.