Uh huh. This is what I woke up to this morning. Ebay’s collection agency calling. Apparently I owed 35$ for “services”. Which is fine. I mean, I go through periods where I use Ebay quite a bit so it didn’t really surprise me. What DID surprise me was that they called at all.
I mean, yes the amount was overdue. But, being honest, I get so much Ebay and PayPal spam that it is very, very difficult to figure out what’s real these days. I mean, it’s downright impossible without hovering over the links on each and every email (and I get 50+ of them a day). Sorry Ebay, just not happening.
So I logged in and paid it. I was a little surprised to find that the amount had only been owing for 2 weeks and that they’d already sent a collection agency after me. I mean, I always pay my balances eventually. Why would I want to give up my 4+ years of history with Ebay over 25$, after all?
Anyways, it was an eye opener. Nothing I can really prevent (except by being more active on Ebay), but an eye opener nonetheless.
February 15th, 2006 at 9:43 pm
Blockbuster did the same to me a couple of years ago. I was a week overdue on paying a rental overdue fee which amounted to $5 and they sent me to a collections agency. Up until that point I probably rented around $500 in movies, give or take (I have kids and no life before the snarky remarks come;) Needless to say I just started buying movies from Target and haven’t stepped foot in a Blockbuster since.
You have an extremely good point on the amount of phishing that runs around with E-Bay and PayPal. I’d be even less likely to go back to them;)
February 16th, 2006 at 12:07 am
Dump ebay and check out the new competition at areyouin.com
February 16th, 2006 at 2:35 am
They *called* you? Wow…that is weird. I just paid them recently – good thing, If they called me I’d be like ‘eBay. Riiiiight”.
February 16th, 2006 at 5:18 am
I’m with Jon there, seems a little weird.