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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 222411, member: 4626&quot;]The thing is, he already has your name and address (how else is he going to ship it to you?) so giving your phone number won&#039;t result in him getting access to any information that he doesn&#039;t already have access to anyway.&nbsp; And I can show websites that all you need is a name to get any publicly published information about you (such as addresses already published in phone books).</p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;re really that worried about someone you&#039;re buying something from having access to personal information, you&#039;re only real remedy is not to give out your real name and have your item shipped to a post office box or something.&nbsp; I&#039;m not even sure if eBay will let you open up an account without at the very least giving out your name though.</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;ve already decided to trust this person enough to give them money and hope they send you the item you paid for, you&#039;ve given out your name, and your address, so this person really isn&#039;t a stranger anymore is he?&nbsp; Any information he can get from having your phone number, he can already get without your phone number if he so desires, so you have nothing further to worry about by giving your phone number and making the transaction that much easier.</p><p><br /></p><p>The vast majority of the time your privacy is protected by the simple fact that very few people care enough about you to want to violate your privacy in the first place.&nbsp; If you have an enstranged spouse who you&#039;re worried might harm you, get a restraining order (these usually make it illegal for the person to even contact you in any way, even by phone or e-mail), in extreme cases think about legally changing your name.&nbsp; But that&#039;s the extreme exception.&nbsp; The fact is, most people just don&#039;t care, and those that do can easily find out anything about you that&#039;s publicly available already anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you, precisely my point.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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