I just got a somewhat garbled email, saying it was from Auctiva, asking me to confirm that I still use my account...? My cookie is okay, and I use my account on a daily basis. The email was really poorly written in mark-up and came through as garbage, and I had to fish through it to see what it said. Anybody else getting this?

Sounds like a phishing scam to me. I definitely wouldn't click on anything on that e-mail itself. There are plenty of similar phony e-mails moving around out there. I wish I had a dollar for every one (or $ .99 starting? )
Seriously though, if you have any questions about your Auctiva account, contact Auctiva directly. Don't bother with those annoying garbage e-mails. You may want to report this e-mail to them also.
All the best!

Might not be a bad idea to contact support about this - they might want to know that phony emails with Auctiva's name on it are making the rounds.

I got the same one. It says, somewhere among all the code that shows up: We do random checks to verify the use of our services. You will

be permanently suspended from the AuctiviaCommunity, unless we

obtain your confirmation in the nextone week<BR>Won't you rejoin

the Auctivia Community?</FONT></P>

<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=2><FONT

face=Verdana>So we ask you kindly to co-operate and let us know if you

still use your account or not .

and the website it wants to take me to is http://doiop.com/4f8f6b