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<p>[QUOTE="Jaelus, post: 2369600, member: 46237"]It's reasonable to expect that Heritage will create their own customer account for you when you make a purchase with them through eBay. The linking was likely done in an attempt to prevent duplicate accounts from being created.</p><p><br /></p><p>Honestly how many times do you think a numismatic auction house that most people haven't heard of will get two accounts created from the same household with the same last name where it really isn't pretty much okay for them to be linked? Granted it's <i>theoretically</i> possible for this to happen, say if you move and sell your house to another numismatist that shares your last name and then you also forget to update your address with Heritage while they create a new account with their updated address. Is this really happening though?</p><p><br /></p><p>Your example of a gift purchase makes what you experienced possibly annoying, sure, but saying it's unethical is a big stretch. This isn't protected healthcare information we're talking about.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jaelus, post: 2369600, member: 46237"]It's reasonable to expect that Heritage will create their own customer account for you when you make a purchase with them through eBay. The linking was likely done in an attempt to prevent duplicate accounts from being created. Honestly how many times do you think a numismatic auction house that most people haven't heard of will get two accounts created from the same household with the same last name where it really isn't pretty much okay for them to be linked? Granted it's [I]theoretically[/I] possible for this to happen, say if you move and sell your house to another numismatist that shares your last name and then you also forget to update your address with Heritage while they create a new account with their updated address. Is this really happening though? Your example of a gift purchase makes what you experienced possibly annoying, sure, but saying it's unethical is a big stretch. This isn't protected healthcare information we're talking about.[/QUOTE]
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