I was spammed - email addr lifted from the registry

semicycler

Hi all. I want to know if this has happend to any of you.

I recently received an unsolicted email from a seller. The problem I have is my email address was lifted from my registry set listing. The seller has a coin on ebay and sent me an email, not a PM, with a link to their auction. My registry is nothing special, all common date/grade. I'm just guessing but I suspect the seller emailed everyone who has a registry set that could use this coin. I'm guessing this because my set is nowhere near the top and the coin for sale would definitely go into a top rated set.

I would not mind so much if the email was a direct offer to either buy or sell their coin. Instead, the seller was just drumming up business for their auction.

Is this considered an accectable use of my email address listed with my registry set? What do you think?

Russ

Wouldn't happen to be "hotcoins" would it? He spammed me with an auction listing a while back.

Russ, NCNE

braddick

the email and the website are mine, but the eBay handle is someone else.

semicycler

I wasn't hotcoins. It really doesn't matter who it was from. My point is should my email listed with my set registry be used for spam about ebay auctions? Even if the auction is about a coin I might or might not want for my registry set?

dbldie55

That is what my email address is listed for on my sets.

gmarguli

I assumed that people listed their email address in their sets in hopes of other people contacting them about a coin like this.

fcloud

I have my e-mail listed. I guess, I wouldn't care if someone contacted me. I have my e-mail listed. Don't list your e-mail if you don't want people to be able to send you e-mail.

TomB

It would seem to me that if you list your email address in the open then you can expect solicitations. I don't think the seller did anything wrong, after all, they gave you the heads up on the coin, it just wasn't for a direct sale.

segoja

If you lsit your e-mail I think you are expecting people to let you know about coins that might fit your set. I have people do that to me, most of the time it doesn't work, but at times I'm glad they did.

In the e-age, this is how sellers and buyers get together.

If you don't want the e-mail, delete it from your sets.

semicycler

You guys are probably right. I guess I just assumed my email would be used for buy/sell offers, not to direct me towards an ebay auction. If I start to get real spam, then I'll just remove my email address.

Thanks for the replies.

prooflike

I think the real question is,

'If you didn't want anybody to write you(even not coin related), why did yo put your email in the public domain?'

Check the box 'No' where it asks 'Display email address...'

Lakesammman

Got one of those "Let's see how stupid this guy is" emails the other day...a wholesaler got my email off the registry and offered me a FE cent for 120K..... Needless to say, I passed on it.