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elgato
Joined: 24 Feb 2005
Posts: 17241
Location: Texas
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| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 10:42 am Post subject: eBay to delete dormant accounts with 30 days notice |
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eBay are at last to do something that people have been asking for for years – free up some of the oldest eBay User Ids that haven’t been used for years.
eBay have sent out emails to users with dormant accounts saying “We noticed that you haven’t signed in to your eBay account for quite some time, and we’d like to invite you back to buy and sell again. eBay’s a great place to buy what you want, and sell what you have.“.
They go on to add “Unfortunately, since you haven’t used your eBay account for a while, it will be deleted if you don’t sign in within 30 days from the day this email was sent.”
I’ve never heard of eBay deleting an account before – even when eBay have closed accounts for Trust and Safety reasons the accounts and About Me pages have always remained live on the site.
What this means is that potentially some of the oldest eBay User ID’s from dormant accounts will become available to be re-registered at some time in the near future. If dormant account users don’t log in and their accounts are deleted then the User Ids could potentially become available again.
http://tamebay.com/2012/02/ebay-to-delete-dormant-accounts-with-30-days-notice.html |
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slythorne
Joined: 31 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 12:14 am Post subject: |
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| so what are they going to do with past transactions? Are they going to delete ALL feedback over a month old then? What about those that registered a name just to protect their trademark or website? |
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luckyalive
Joined: 27 Apr 2008
Posts: 590
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| Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Dangerous game here. on the one hand ebay has for years used dead accounts, duplicate accounts, shilling accounts, seperate buyer and seller accounts, and so on to boost their member count. Now they want to try to blackmail these account users into doing business otherwise their account will be deleted. Definately biting the hand that feeds them. Going to piss off a lot of people who use the site occasionally. The ship is sinking and the captain is trying to make a raft out of rats fleeing off the ship. |
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