[geeks] more eBay bullcrap

[Joshua Boyd]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 11:14:12AM -0400, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> On Jun 5, 2008, at 17:33 , Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> >
> >>>>The true test would be to see if the money was taken already.
> >>>
> >>>Not following you here...
> >>
> >>If they say they are taking money directly and they haven't then it  
> >>is
> >>a scam.  If they have taken the money directly, then it was obviously
> >>a real message.
> >
> >Unless they took the money directly and their message got lost, but a
> >scammer's message coincidentally arrived at nearly the right time.
> 
> Evidently I'm really bad at explaining things...
> 
> The email is from eBay, not a scammer.
> 
> eBay sends invoices both to your registered email address, and also in  
> their website's internal email system.
 
> Both messages match perfectly, and the invoice amount is present and  
> it exactly matches what I really do owe them.

If you said that you had a matching message in their web site
message notification area, then I overlooked it.

All unexpected emails from ebay or paypal are ignored, but I do make a
point to then log into the real site to look for messages there just in
case they weren't fake emails.