have very nearly come a cropper this morning and would like to warn all you sellers on ebay. I sell several hundred items a month on ebay and so it is very difficult to know instantly who is who with your buyers. Yhis morning I received an email question about an item (I get upto 15 a day) . I was knocked off balance by the tone of the email which read: "I am still waiting for the item if you so not get back to me ASAP I will report you to ebay" Being the 100% feedback, nothings too much bother for my clients etc. type of person I was pretty shocked. Normally if a parcel has gone missing (and they do from time to time) an email enquiry from the client is all that is required. All my clients have been polite, friendly and ready to deal with the situation rather than being sharp and rude. Anyway I thought nothing of it and clicked onto the respond now button, It took me to a sign in page which I did and then it took me to the american version of my ebay, then I panicked. I realised something must be wrong and quickly logged in and changed my password before someone else did.
I have forwarded the email to snipped-for-privacy@ebay.co.uk. I checked the user id and found that there were no users with that name "castlebery2004" and when I searched for the Item number, it came back as a "god bless you statue"! (God bless you for giving us all the details we need to run rampant with your account!! I have always prided myself on being very spoof conscious and am shocked at how something that I found alarming made me react! In the words of Hill Street Blues ...... BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!