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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2687678, member: 27832&quot;]This.</p><p><br /></p><p>We&#039;ve seen eBay trying to crack down directly, by trying to conceal users&#039; actual email addresses, and blocking things that look like contact information in messages, and looking for keywords in messages.</p><p><br /></p><p>They can&#039;t plug the PayPal email address hole, though, now that PayPal&#039;s been spun out, so once you&#039;ve done one transaction with someone, you can contact them directly. (I kind of wish PayPal would plug that hole; some of the people I&#039;ve dealt with have poor info hygiene, so my PayPal-specific address has leaked out, and I&#039;m getting spam on it.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I expect eBay will keep trying to crack down on the exchange of contact information, and I expect they&#039;ll continue to fail. If they make their seller terms and fees too onerous, they may find they&#039;re still getting plenty of listings, but fewer and fewer sales (and more and more &quot;the item is no longer available&quot; cancellations). The rules and expenses will fluster sellers so much that they&#039;ll just start <i>losing</i> coins once they&#039;ve been listed and viewed for a while...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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