....... or am I just paranoid?
I have noticed that when I reply to eBay user emails there is a kind of delay when typing - the letters come up on the screen a fraction of a second
behind the keystrokes. It is almost like they are being routed through a 'proof reader' before being allowed, possibly being monitored to
prevent any outside deals.
Also eBay seems to be censoring each ad before submission, weeding out 'hints' of separate deals outside the auctions, exchanges, offers
etc.
Has anyone else noticed this?
theyve been listening in for ages now mate thats why they put that code up and all etc
try replying to the person direct
also ebay will slowly try and take over the internet sales world I said this quite a while back
any other company with there customer service would have been investigated by trading standard by now
everything is cheesy auto replies
so by the time you get your proper reply 5 days have gone by
I can appreciate that they need to keep an eye on their internal stuff, but it just seems a bit 'big brother' to vet the emails between auction users that choose not to use the eBay messages system.
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I can appreciate that they need to keep an eye on their internal stuff, but it just seems a bit 'big brother' to vet the emails between auction users that choose not to use the eBay messages system.
your quite right
afterall if google earth can show sat images of the top of my house for general internet users
imagine the quality of there video output
straight to base etc
afterall how the bleep can ebay stop me from selling items elsewhere
unless there trying to rule
You're just being paranoid about the character delay. If anyone wanted to vet an email being passed through their system they would intercept it in transit, it's so much easier and more transparent than intercepting every character as it is typed into a dialog.
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Originally posted by martyn_16v
You're just being paranoid about the character delay. If anyone wanted to vet an email being passed through their system they would intercept it in transit, it's so much easier and more transparent than intercepting every character as it is typed into a dialog.
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Originally posted by RazMan
So what causes the delay then? I'm not particularly worried by it - just interested as to how eBay can seemingly control or influence certain things.
on a similar but different note, it seems phone companies can meddle with messages in your inbox, either edit or delete them. When you receive a text informing you of a missed call, any subsequent missed calls are edited onto the same message, so you dont end up with two messages. Not sure how they do it but that seems sneaky.
just to add to your paranoia .... I am sure I read somewhere the the secutiry service/police/MFI/aliens are able to monitor and access or internet
traffic and telephone conversation, the latter being record, must be a blood big tape machine
I've heard about these 'facilities' that some governments use (although it might just be urban myth) - they are apparently a very
sophisticated word recognition doo dahs which monitor thousands of lines and flag up any conversations with certain 'alert' words like
'bomb, terrorist, explosive' etc.
Ooooooohh, I've probably just triggered one of them .......... they're probably coming to get me now AS WE SPEAK!!
..... or maybe its just me being paranoid again
and its called echelon.
The US have a huge base in harrogate called Menwith hill were they monitor all electronic communication.
Menwith
Menwith Hill and Fylingdales are both surveillance stations monitoring your internet activity. Osama bin Laden.....Al Quaeda ..... plutonium ....
North Korea.. That's just so they pick this one up
This isn't doing my paranoia any good you know 
You'll be fine as long as no one says 'dirty bomb'.
Oh shi...
Talking of which, what the hell is this?
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Perhaps Arthur C Clarkes obelisk was just drifting past the M4 the day the image was taken
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Talking of which, what the hell is this?