posted on December 23, 2002 02:20:49 PM new
I am (usually) very prompt when it comes to sending out end-of-auction notices. I have even changed the title of the email, so that it can not be misinterpreted as just another eBay notice, and fall into all the junk mail that we all get......... BUT 99 times out of 100 when I get a buyer coming back to me and saying, "you never contacted me, how can I pay, etc, etc, etc; it is an AOL email address. So, I resend all the previous notices, and still 50% get told again, "why won't you contact me (usually via the eBay email system). I don't get any bounceback notices, or delivery refusals, etc. My email is *****@flash.net, an SBC Prodigy service, so it's not that non-mainstream.
We all depend on email, and what a pain it is when it doesn't go through, and you do not know that it does not go through; and why is it almost always AOL??????
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posted on December 23, 2002 02:31:24 PM new
i have aol,i dont have problem getting emails from my bill collector.
aol does have a lot of childish or childlike bidders/
posted on December 23, 2002 03:39:18 PM new
There's something like 30+ million AOL accounts. ( counting CompuServe accounts they own ). No other ISP has numbers near the 5 million mark. You're bound to get a few AOL email bidders.
posted on December 23, 2002 04:48:46 PM new
It's AOL's spam filters. Often they filter out good email along with the spam. You'll have to use ebay's email system to communicate with them.
posted on December 23, 2002 05:34:03 PM new
40-50% of my bidders are AOL users. 25% don't get my first EOA notice. 5% never get them. I use Earthlink. Funny thing when I resend through my Juno Account 99% of the time it goes through. No other ISP has ever blocked any EOA notice of mine. It may have to do with people configureing the spam blocker too tight. I hate seeing AOL as the ISP on my customer's email address!
posted on December 23, 2002 08:11:53 PM new
there is more mischief going on with aol members,i used to have more deadbeats with email addr ending in @aol.com.
may be they are underage and not allowed to bid but somehow manage to escape from the basement.
posted on December 23, 2002 08:24:32 PM new
The problem with Earthlink is it attracts some of the major league spammers. When a new one starts a barrage, AOL will block all incoming email from Earthlink until they shut down the spammers. When this happens, AOL users can't send email to Earthlink users either. The connection is cut completely. This happens quite often. I'm on AOL and when I have a winning bidder with an Earthlink email address, I send my eoa in the normal manner and immediately re-send it from my Yahoo address. About 50% of the time, the Yahoo email is the only one they get from me. There are a few other ISP's that AOL blocks on occasion until they dump their spammers.
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posted on December 23, 2002 10:56:54 PM new
Wouldn't it help, in these AOL cases, to request a return receipt for your e-mail? I've had to start doing that because our server is giving us fits.
AOL IS different! And worse. Most of the time when I send friends an attachment, they can't access it.
Looking over my e-mail address book, I see that most of our friends who are on AOL are older (60+). Not sure if that means anything - yet - except that most of them came to the computer age late and some of them don't understand even the etiquette of e-mail. And some of them look at their e-mail only once or twice a month!!!! Go figure.
posted on December 24, 2002 07:12:22 AM new see that most of our friends who are on AOL are older (60+)
I agree. My parents use AOL. I couldn't imagine them trying to use anything else! I used AOL for 6 years and finally made the break two months ago to Cable Internet. I couldn't be happier! The turning point was that Adelphia "made an offer I couldn't refuse." For $99 a month, I get Cable Internet and every movie channel they offer on my cable TV. We were already paying $45 a month for the cable with only 2 movie channels! Such a deal. Off the track. . .
I used to have occasional trouble receiving emails on AOL. AOL blocks some services because of spam. The funny thing is I get far less spam now than on AOL. 300 emails per day on AOL equated to 295 spams! 99.5 percent of those spams were porn sites. .5% were spams offering me instant credit cards. I had a Hotmail account just in case I couldn't get the AOL email from sellers. AOL is just too big.
posted on December 24, 2002 08:50:06 AM new
Roadsmith -
I do request a 'read receipt', but never get one back from AOL contacts that reply; so I just figured that that feature did not work on AOL............
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