Is this a scam or just a time waster ?

Warning block (deleted as no longer reqistered as of 11/8/07) I am receiving numerous e-mails now allegedly via eBay ask the seller all from Chinese businesses, in other words my e-mail address has been sold to a spam mailing company.

I will be passing the info onto eBay.

Here's my experience.

Wait till they get your phone number and call in the middle of the night...again, and again and again and again.

It was a nightmare that I don't ever want to experience again.

I blocked selling in that region and there is no amount of money that would convince me to undo the blocking.

https://community.auctiva.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/6286099...491045661#8491045661

Hi, my poor old answering machine gets pretty busy now acting as my sentry some days just to filter out 'normal' cold selling calls even before this incident.

Oh good, another pile of Chinese spam mails have just arrived, deep joy, well I shall just keep forwarding them to spoof until they block me as a spammer-spammer

Just want to say hi.Report this to paypal and ebay.I agree that this roach is trying to do this to every one he can.He is either real stupid or a real jerk.Think about it!.

Just a sidebar...from what I understand the ? marks you're seeing are actually Chinese alphabet characters that your computer cannot compute..
Does that make any sense

Wish you luck getting rid of this guy!!

Hi member_8880, I have had actual sales to China/Hong Kong before and the address still appears in English letters. His name and China are in English characters, the rest in '?'s

Unpronouncible eBay ID's are quite normal, addresses no.

I received 30 spam mails from Chinese businesses last night all disguised as eBay ask the seller mails. This proves that this person is a BIN bandit and making contact is pointless and probably worse than replying to a spammer and proving your e-mail ia an active one.

See the related posts on this subject and the one including the reply I got from pointless/toothless/don't give a damn eBay customer support.

As far as I can see the only thing to do is stop selling to Asia (my sales are rare there anyway) update all live BIN listings accordingly and ignore this 'buyer'. A one off fee loss is small compared to what could happen.


Hi art202, sorry to be a bit tetchy over this, but how can I report to PayPal as they have not and I expect will not pay, if I pressure, I may well as attack an ant colony with a toothpick naked !

Wow, eBay actually pulled the plug on him, see my main post on this subject :-

https://community.auctiva.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/628609941/m/2141001142