posted on June 7, 2005 01:06:19 AM new
"Free Border & Subtitle on eBay: June 7-9!"
"eBay Giving Works ... support your favorite charity ... an easy way to donate part of your sale and make your lisings stand out!"
"charity listing special" ... "Get Details" (clickable) .... and "Go To Seller Central" (also clickable)
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MIGHT REALLY be from ebay, but it's got 2 clickable hotlinks in it, so I forwarded it to Spoof, just to mess with 'em and keep them busy over there ...
even the headers, (i think) look suspicious:
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from rly-yi04.mx.aol.com (rly-yi04.mail.aol.com [172.18.180.132]) by air-yi04.mail.aol.com (v106.2) with ESMTP id MAILINYI44-7c942a4e5d91e1; Mon, 06 Jun 2005 20:10:12 -0400
Received: from smf-camp20.smf.ebay.com (smfcamppool20.emailebay.com [66.135.215.249]) by rly-yi04.mx.aol.com (v106.2) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINYI47-7c942a4e5d91e1; Mon, 06 Jun 2005 20:10:01 -0400
Received: from [10.108.161.70] (dooby1-snat.smf.ebay.com [10.108.160.70] (may be forged))
by smf-camp20.smf.ebay.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id j5701RGH008874
for <[email protected]>; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 17:08:00 -0700
From: "eBay Seller Central" <[email protected]>
Reply-to: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Free Border & Subtitle on eBay: June 7-9!
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 17:08:00 -0700
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
X-Mailer: Kana Connect 6
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable
X-AOL-IP: 66.135.215.249
X-AOL-SCOLL-SCORE: 1:2:367968592:13153337
X-AOL-SCOLL-URL_COUNT: 7
trust no one ...
.... be vewwwy vewwwy careful.
So back to my original question, did any of you get this email yesterday? I've only received my initial response so far, from Spoof dept. ... but no confirmation yet whether it's from eBay or not.
posted on June 7, 2005 03:30:52 AM new
Yes, I also received it. I went to eBay announcement board, and there is no mention of it. I just scheduled an auction using subtitles, and there was a 50 cent charge for it, so I don't think it is from eBay. I didn't click on the link they gave, I always go right to the site for the info.
posted on June 7, 2005 03:37:57 AM new
well, Amber... yesterday was the 6th ... this says the 7th-thru-9th ... and IF it is 'real', I think you only get the discount if you designate your auction to that 'mission fish' thingy, like an ebay Charity auction ....
... and this is only IF the email was 'real'.
Which I still am not sure of LOL ... excellent colorful html'ed email ...
posted on June 7, 2005 02:46:16 PM new
I had said, "I've only received my initial response so far, from Spoof dept. ... but no confirmation yet whether it's from eBay or not."
... par for the course from our "venue" .. they never did send the 2nd email that "yes it IS from us at eBay" ...
posted on June 7, 2005 02:50:51 PM new
So, now everyone is going to have a border around their auctions. What a horrible idea! Even junk will be bordered. It will now be the auctions without one that will stand out.
posted on June 8, 2005 09:35:36 AM new
Where are all the borders and subtitles that should have shown yesterday if they were free? All I saw on the ebay listing page was the regular price for borders and subitles.
buyhigh
posted on June 8, 2005 01:42:12 PM new
Took ebay 1-3/4 days to give me their final reply on this "spoof" I forward to them ... sheesh ...
First part:
"Hello, Thank you for writing to eBay.
This email you received was sent by us. Please be assured that we do not
want to send you any emails that you prefer not to receive. You selected
your email notification preferences ...{blah blah blah}"
So I told THEM:
We were worried for TWO IMPORTANT REASONS: because in the "detail headers" of the email, one of the lines LITERALLY read, "Received: from [10.108.161.70] (dooby1-snat.smf.ebay.com [10.108.160.70] (may be forged)"
and number two, it had clickable links in it ....
..............
yep I'm messing with them a bit, but honest to God, you canNOT often know which emails are REALLY from them, and which are NOT!
[ edited by estatesalestuff on Jun 8, 2005 01:44 PM ]
