Ebay bidder questions

[hobbes]

This may have been asked before but...

 

About twice a week I get an email inquiring about shipping costs on items I know nothing about. The interersting part is the email includes the sellers reply. Anyone else experience this? Checkout the start and end dates of the auctions. I got this email yesterday.

 

 

Hi, please add another $6 for shipping to Newfoundland.

tgzkwoml-eokj@yahoo.com wrote:

Hello, what is the shipping cost to Kansas?

 

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Question from: eysclas

Title of item: LiteOn LDW-851s 8x DVD Burner Drive +/-RW NR

Seller: shysiph

Starts: Jan-29-03 19:51:23 PDT

Ends: Feb-05-03 19:51:23 PDT

Price: Starts at $90.04

To view the item, go to: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=507323671

 

 

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[JLA_ALL_THE_WAY]

According to AuctionBytes, this is simply to get your email address.

DO NOT RESPOND or REPLY to this message.

Simply delete...and have a nice day.

 

Rick

[hobbes]

Thanks! I thought something weird was going on. I will have to check this AuctionBytes out.

 

Russ

[Apotheosis]

Yeah I get those constantly. Most of mine are for cell phones which is a weird coincedence since I sell them myself.

 

At first it worried me because I thought someone had gotten ahold of my ebay password. Since I still get them after the password change I figured people were just spamming as usual.

[Aces]

I've been getting those for awhile now...

Pain in the ars they are!