@auctionpet wrote:
If an ebay CS employee is responsible, you must have said something extremely upsetting to them to result in this type of retaliation. Not sure your telling us the entire slant of your conversation.
The GTC was announced about 45 days ago. All sellers were sent emails and notices within their messaging. It shouldn't have been a surprise. Sorry, there is no workaround. All sellers are in the same 'sinking' boat.
Really? Call me old fashioned, but I interpret this as you calling me a liar; something which I do not appreciate at all. I'm not sure how it is where you live, but here in AK a man's word is still worth more than all the money in his bank account. And he takes offense when it's challenged. So, I would appreciate it if rather than infer that I'm being dishonest somehow, you'd just keep your comments to yourself if they aren't constructive.
I shared this with a friend who has made a career in the IT field, both in the military and private sector. A simple search of the IP address used to add those items to the cart will tell volumes. That and all sorts of other internal computer markers that I personally know very little about can narrow it down to the actual machine used to do the deed. An attorney can subpoena that IP address and go from there. It's pretty cut-and-dry with regards to the who done it and it won't take much in the form of time or money to find out.
And just for the sake of argument, regardless of what I said or how I acted there is absolutely no excuse of any kind that I will accept for an employee of a company I choose to do business with to violate my privacy and civil liberties. To those that ask "why would anyone do that"; I honestly don't know. I'm not a criminal nor do I feel the need to be nosey and disrespectful. But it happens all the time! As we have all seen in the news lately, multiple Big Tech platforms have been repeatedly busted for privacy violations carried out by their own employees. And if I end up being wrong and it was a genuine fluke somehow in the space-time continuum, I will gladly come back and eat a little crow. Please make no mistake-I'm not simply coming on the forum here to complain. I'm sharing this because it needed to be shared and other eBay users need to be aware of it. I am also genuinely curious if anyone else has experienced anything similar.
With regards to all the emails and notices, I have far better things to do with my life than spend it pouring over the constant stream of mindless "information" from eBay. Sorry, I don't drink the eBay kool-aid like lots of others; it's nothing more than a platform I can use for my own financial benefit-period. Whether I had foreknowledge or not as to the GTC policy change, it still would not have been something I would be amicable too and I still would have called them to voice my opinion as a seller and as a customer; ie. it wouldn't have mattered to me either way to know ahead of time.
