eBay notification preferences spam sellers

by Chris Dawson

This post was written in February 2008; specific information contained within it may be out of date.

eBay have made a change to notification preferences and started sending sellers “eBay Fixed Price Listing End”. I was alerted when a seller contacted me asking how to turn off eBay emails, and then when this evening when my own listings started to end my inbox filled up with eBay spam.

Now I know some sellers like email notifications, but personally I don’t. I turned them off in the past so I should no longer receive end of item emails or even item sold emails. The change has occured in the previous 24 hours and has overridden my previous settings.

A quick browse to My eBay > Notification Preferences > Selling Activity shows a new view with most options greyed out with the option “Real Time”. I still have the “Item did not sell” and “Item sold” options set to “None”, but I’m no longer able to disable other options.

Seller Notifications

If you’re a seller and have in the past turned email notifications off for most eBay events stand by for a shock. Your inbox is about to be filled with what you’ll probably class as junkmail.

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Author: Chris Dawson
Posted at: Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
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Comments

12 Responses to “eBay notification preferences spam sellers”

  1. Chris Dawson on February 20th, 2008 9:02 pm

    Eagle eyed Sue has spotted that the URL for the Notification Prefererences contains MyEbayBeta in the middle so it may be a transient problem, at least I hope so!

  2. Store Your Stuff aka Jade on February 20th, 2008 9:03 pm

    … aahh so that explains it :-)

  3. Mark on February 20th, 2008 9:03 pm

    Since I noticed the change earlier this afternoon, I’ve had an welcome surge of notifications that I previously switched off (like I’m not glued to my Selling Manager Pro half the day!)… let’s hope it is a bug!

  4. Sue Bailey on February 20th, 2008 9:15 pm

    Eagle-eyed Sue… Is that like Cotton-Eye Joe? :lol:

  5. Chris Dawson on February 20th, 2008 9:26 pm

    Can be if you like. Damn, how do I get the tune out of my head?

    All I can say is am I glad I bought MailWasher to deal with eBay junk mail and other spam

  6. Mark on February 20th, 2008 9:43 pm

    ClearMyMail is also very good

  7. Chris Dawson on February 20th, 2008 10:57 pm

    Mind you… for something new it’s a bit out of date - Seller Cross promotions disappeared from the UK back in August 2007 so it’s highly unlikely anyone will get the “Seller cross-promotion request” email :D

  8. Louise on February 20th, 2008 11:07 pm

    I have been going around in circles with the new beta settings since this afternoon when I began to receive item ended emails. I wondered why I was getting them. I can’t seem to turn it off either :neutral:
    I hope it gets fixed soon as I get enough rubbish already.

  9. Cliff Aliperti on February 21st, 2008 4:45 am

    Yup, I’ve been getting hit with these all day myself on ending Fixed Price Items — a little heavier than would be expected too until I realized today was the end day for last weeks 20 cents sale.

    I never saw that screenshot shown above–I have “Preferences” under “My Account” in my eBay, and only when I click on “Preferences” does an extra link to “Notification Preferences” appear (this is still under “My Account”). I click on “Notification Preferences” and receive one of those red-lettered eBay notices saying eBay is temporarily down and to check the Announcement boards for any reference to the problem.

    That all seems to be back to normal as I check now though.

    Just a little extra pain today, but of course when I saw those 75+ emails when I woke up this morning I had that momentary second of panic that my account had been hacked.

  10. Chris Dawson on February 21st, 2008 7:26 am

    The good news is it’s all back to normal on my account today too! Whatever they turned on in the myebaybeta has been turned off again :grin:

  11. Mark Classic on February 21st, 2008 10:35 am

    Thunderbird has a very good spam system built in.

    Mark

  12. Mark on February 21st, 2008 7:00 pm

    Yep, all back to normal as far as eBay report… Phew!

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