Basically the article says that hotmail is capping the number of e-mails you can send in a 24 hour period at 100. If you are a Powerseller (or even a moderate seller) with an eBay account this might be of a concern to you. Between last-minute auction question and EOA e-mails... it's awfully easy to reach that 100th e-mail! (I figure if you're running anywhere between 50-75 auctions you'll reach the limit). I'm glad I switched from hotmail to mail.com a few years back. They give 5x as much storage space.... and don't give you nearly as many headaches! Hope this info helps some of ya!
posted on March 26, 2003 11:24:11 AM new
I can't imagine a powerseller who has to rely on a free Hotmail account.
Are there really that many of you? I don't think I have ever bought anything from anyone with a hotmail account and only sold a couple of items to hotmail users.
posted on March 26, 2003 11:35:44 AM newI can't imagine a powerseller who has to rely on a free Hotmail account.
I but from powersellers all the time. Most of them either have hotmail, yahoo or aol accounts. If I have an email problem with a seller aol or hotmail are usually involved.
posted on March 26, 2003 11:42:28 AM new
lindajean,
Some powersellers may not HAVE to rely on a hotmail account.... they may CHOOSE to. As a PowerSeller, I made a concious choice to use web-based e-mail clients. I did this because I wanted to have access to ALL my e-mail correspondance from any location in the world. This way, when I travel, as long as I have access to the internet, I can still correspond with my customers AND look up past correspondance as well. Originally, I did use Hotmail. But... I quickly learned that the 2MB of storage space was not large enough. That's why I switched to mail.com which provides 10MB of free storage space (which at the last time I checked was the most that ANY web-based e-mail offered at no charge). Anyhow... just thought I'd point out a reason why web-based mail can be useful for an eBay seller. (although obviously hotmail is not so useful now!)
posted on March 27, 2003 09:03:26 AM new
I like the mail.com tip- but I can access my email from anywhere, by logging on to my server control panel.
Unfortunately, that means I have to keep the server URL, which is all numbers (you know- 209.756.78 etc etc)written down- because I just can't memorize any more strings of numbers!
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