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Would this creep you out?

If someone on ebay bought a coin from you 2 weeks ago with no payment, no communication... and you just realized they live 20 miles away with an address smack dab in the ghetto?

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  • RyGuyRyGuy Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭
    Nah.

    Edited to add - Yes.
  • gonzergonzer Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I understand your point but we can't all live on the beach at Malibu.
  • RTSRTS Posts: 1,408
    No.
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  • SmittysSmittys Posts: 9,876 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Some people can't help where they live.
    Especially if it's a youth
  • blu62vetteblu62vette Posts: 11,945 ✭✭✭✭✭
    In this day I just dont know if the info they got on you from Ebay is different than what they could have got somewhere else. I can why you would be, but also see why it would not be a big deal. I am on the fence.
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  • RyGuyRyGuy Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Some people can't help where they live.
    Especially if it's a youth >>



    I think he's more or less worried about the fact there's been zero payment/communication from someone living in a not-so-great area...lending a thought to a future theft.
  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Naw that's why I got a Post Office Box.
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  • notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭
    I don't use my home address on ebay.--Jerry
  • Interesting question.

    This real issue is am I worried that people may use E bay to locate individuals who may have a cache of valuable merchandise in their homes. To a degree, the answer is yes - regardless of where those people may live.



    "spot on my UHR, nevermind, I wiped it off"
  • zeebobzeebob Posts: 2,825


    << <i>Naw that's why I got a Post Office Box. >>



    LindeDad beat me to it.

    Giving out your home address on ebay (for any item, but especially for coins) is just asking for a home invasion. Bad juju this giving out of home addresses.

  • What if someone stalks the post office and follows you home?
  • Raybob15239Raybob15239 Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭
    Sure would...which is why I use my office address for ebay and not my home address. It also helps to keep everything in a SDB at the bank and very little at the house. Why take chances?

    Successful B/S/T transactions: As Seller: PascoWA (June 2008); MsMorrisine (April 2009); ECHOES (July 2009) As Buyer: bfjohnson (July 2008); robkool (Dec 2010); itsnotjustme (Dec 2010) TwoSides2aCoin (Dec 2018) PrivateCoin Jan 2019
  • BoomBoom Posts: 10,165
    I can see where it could cause concern.

    In my case though, it wouldn't & I won't

    say why but would wager that you can

    figure it out. Come on down Homie! image
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    The only thing that

    really creeps me out

    is the economy.



    What's really creepy, is being

    the only fuzzy bear, living in

    the middle of a whole lot of

    people.image
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage


  • << <i>Sure would...which is why I use my office address for ebay and not my home address. It also helps to keep everything in a SDB at the bank and very little at the house. Why take chances? >>



    How about an 800 pound safe bolted to a cement floor. Fire resistant to 1400 degrees F.
    I bought one, a gun safe that took 4 men to deliver it, the next day after I bought my gold 1879 FH Stella.

    JT
    It is health that is real wealth, not pieces of gold and silver. Gandhi.

    I collect all 20th century series except gold including those series that ended there.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,837 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Sure would...which is why I use my office address for ebay and not my home address. It also helps to keep everything in a SDB at the bank and very little at the house. Why take chances? >>



    How about an 800 pound safe bolted to a cement floor. Fire resistant to 1400 degrees F.
    I bought one, a gun safe that took 4 men to deliver it, the next day after I bought my gold 1879 FH Stella.

    JT >>



    All they would have to do is put a gun to your head and you would open the safe.



    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • intenceintence Posts: 1,255
    wouldnt bother me
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  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>What if someone stalks the post office and follows you home? >>



    Have fun I don't even live in the town just commute past it, and stop off every couple of days.

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ah the rampant paranoia of 'grasseaters'. Boom sounds like he has the formula... and do not be so sure about that gun to the head gaining the combination....They have to get you first. This is so ludicrous....anyone can devise a doomsday scenario, but common sense, reasonable precautions and preparations and the proper mindset are really all that is needed. I laugh heartily everytime I see one of these 'oh I am so scared' threads... such poppyc**k. Cheers, RickO
  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 35,848 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I bought a laptop keyboard (the factory installed type, not the peripheral type) from someone in the not so nice part of town. Went great. visited him in person to avoid shipping charges. good guy. apparently laptop repair was his in-home second job.






    Current maintainer of Stone's Master List of Favorite Websites // My BST transactions

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