<< <i>I have a question. After all the buys and sales I've made over the years through ebay, I have this long list of email and mailing addresses........can I mail out a coin list with sale prices to all these people without feeling guilty?
And of course, all those people gave me permission to do so..................what you say?
Leo >>
Ebay says no, but they are stretching their hold over you to protect their share of the market. I have every email address of every paypal account that has paid me over the years. My feeling is I bought that info when I paid the fees. I use that list to send out periodic market info and available coins to my customers. I consider it a service to them. Those that chosse to buy directly from me do so because of my hard effort to build their trust. Feel guilty? never. According to some here that makes me a "thief." According to me I paid for the mailing list with fees and earned their direct business on my own merit. Besides, the email addresses were provided by paypal, not ebay. >>
I was thinking they were provided by the buyers and sellers. Ebay doesn't own my email or mailing address. It was a nice idea to come up with a website to provide another way sellers and buyers can come together and make sales but there's a line drawn on what they can claim and what not. Microsoft was thought to have monopolized the OS in computers so ebay best watch out. People complain they don't want to deal with ebay but find that ebay is too far up everyone's arse, they will be forced to change as well.
Leo
The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!
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<< <i>I have a question.
And of course, all those people gave me permission to do so..................what you say?
Leo >>
Ebay says no, but they are stretching their hold over you to protect their share of the market. I have every email address of every paypal account that has paid me over the years. My feeling is I bought that info when I paid the fees. I use that list to send out periodic market info and available coins to my customers. I consider it a service to them. Those that chosse to buy directly from me do so because of my hard effort to build their trust. Feel guilty? never. According to some here that makes me a "thief." According to me I paid for the mailing list with fees and earned their direct business on my own merit. Besides, the email addresses were provided by paypal, not ebay. >>
I was thinking they were provided by the buyers and sellers. Ebay doesn't own my email or mailing address. It was a nice idea to come up with a website to provide another way sellers and buyers can come together and make sales but there's a line drawn on what they can claim and what not. Microsoft was thought to have monopolized the OS in computers so ebay best watch out. People complain they don't want to deal with ebay but find that ebay is too far up everyone's arse, they will be forced to change as well.
Leo
The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!
My Jefferson Nickel Collection