From: Mel Miller (nourmahal@att.net)
Date: Thu Jun 26 2003 - 18:13:31 PDT
> From: David Cole <DavidCole@tk7.net>
> Reply-To: DavidCole@tk7.net
> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 01:55:14 -0500
> To: Mel Miller <nourmahal@att.net>, Military Vehicles Mailing List
> <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Subject: Re: [MV] HUGE Brother (eBay) is watching
>
> I've been selling and buying stuff on Ebay for years. I've sold hundreds
> of items and bought not nearly as much as I have sold.
>
> When a person goes into a store to buy an item, there is an inherent
> expectation that the transaction is not entirely public. For instance, if
> I go into a drug store to buy supplies, I don't expect to see my name on
> the sign out front telling the public that I saved $10 on a case of condoms
> the night before. The transaction is semi-private, and certainly not
> something that I would expect to be above the fold on the newspaper the
> next day.
>
> I'm sure that none of the customers I have dealt with on Ebay expect that
> also. In fact I'm quite sure that if all sales on Ebay were entirely
> public, that their sales volume would fall like a rock.
Howdy Mr. Cole,
I agree that sales on Ebay should not be completely public. I would never
advocate such a position. What I was saying was, that with the porosity of
the web being what it is, it BEHOOVES us to act as if our emails could be
published the next day.
I hope you do not think that when a person files a complaint with his local
PD and they then contact Ebay for info on the name and location of the
person being complained against, that this constitutes unreasonable
publication of a persons business? The General Public is in no way notified
of the disputed transaction (except for member placed negative feedback).
You say that you know people who think that others who do not agree with
them 100% are very suspicious. I have met a few of those types myself.
Usually they are narrow minded types without a lot of education and less
common sense. I do not know what you were inferring by connecting such
people with Ebay's policy of cooperating with LEO's but I can assure you the
average fraud investigator in city PD's have better things to do than idly
ring up companies like Ebay to try to get information on someone they do not
like. Of course, if they do not like a person, chances are they already know
the person AND where they live.
If a person has already attracted the attention of Huge Brother, Ebay
records are bound to be the least of his/her problems since all Ebay
communications except payments through Paypal, etc. are sent in the clear
anyway.
Regards,
Mel Miller
Corpus Christi, TX
361-937-3317
M725
M884
86 VW Transporter Drop Side Pickup
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