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Getting Rid of the Spammer

i-love-my-sheep — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:56:52 GMT

Anyone know how to get rid of the Chinese spammer that keeps flooding the forums with their illegible bulldust? It's starting to get a bit annoying now, especially as it's been going on for a few weeks. Mods don't seem that keen on removing their advertising messages......

Re: Getting Rid of the Spammer

sookie-snackhouse — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 10:02:36 GMT

they charge extra $5-$8 more postage for p.o boxes.didn't think that was allowed while advertising free post.does spamworld ever offer advice?

Re: Getting Rid of the Spammer

i-love-my-sheep — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 10:11:02 GMT

It is a policy violation if you charge for postage on a free post item.

Free postage

You can offer free postage Australia-wide, and to select or all countries around the world
For a destination to which you've specified free postage, no other fees related to postage, handling or packaging can be charged
You're not allowed to change the postage method to a method that is slower than the slowest one indicated in the listing
You're not allowed to offer free postage to one destination and then exclude posting to certain places within that destination. For example, choosing free postage within Australia in the listing form, then charging extra or excluding buyers from specific suburbs/regions such as Tasmania and Perth. You can select different postage rates for different areas by using domestic postage rate tables. Exemptions to this policy may apply if you are excluding regions to comply with the law.

Re: Getting Rid of the Spammer

lyndal1838 — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 10:49:18 GMT

It seems to be a pretty useless exercise Sheepy......the Mods took ages to even remove his blatant advertising.

It is really annoying me now....he has just given me 13 kudos. I do not think that I have been posting anything that is so profound that it deserves all those kudos.

Re: Getting Rid of the Spammer

i-love-my-sheep — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:16:49 GMT

I can't work out why they haven't shafted him or why it took so long to remove the spam advertising messages, especially when I reported someone on the seller forum for advertising old newspapers for sale and it was removed within a few minutes.

This jerk is even more annoying than the rat.....and that's saying something!!

Re: Getting Rid of the Spammer

cq_tech — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:33:25 GMT

Funny you should mention, Lyndal, he just gave me 8 kudos in succession, also to posts that IMO really didn't warrant them. What's his game? Are we meant to be so eternall grateful that we rush off to his frequently mentioned eBay shop and spend up big, or what?

Well I for one have had it with his blatant advertising and wish the moderators would permanently ban him from the boards,. Besides, if he constantly needs to advertise here his store clearly needs a bit of work, something he can't do while he's posting on the AU boards instead.

Re: Getting Rid of the Spammer

modestbods — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:41:38 GMT

@lyndal1838 wrote:
....he has just given me 13 kudos. I do not think that I have been posting anything that is so profound that it deserves all those kudos.

Well, I just gave you a kudos for two reasons, firstly for your humility in the statement above, and secondly because I only just discovered the kudos feature in the last few minutes... I love playing with new 'toys'.

Re: Getting Rid of the Spammer

modestbods — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:43:29 GMT

@cq_tech wrote:
Funny you should mention, Lyndal, he just gave me 8 kudos in succession, also to posts that IMO really didn't warrant them....

Ditto, 1 kudos for you too.

Re: Getting Rid of the Spammer

cq_tech — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:31:18 GMT

The day they can be traded in on something useful, like free listings or a reduction in FVFs is the day I'll start thanking people for leaving them. As it presently stands, however, they're about as useless as positive feedback is for a buyer and I can't imagine why eBay ever saw fit to introduce them. I'd far sooner have had a thumbs down indication for bad posts instead, to be perfectly honest.

Re: Getting Rid of the Spammer

modestbods — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 20:12:17 GMT

@cq_tech wrote:
As it presently stands, however, they're about as useless as positive feedback is for a buyer and I can't imagine why eBay ever saw fit to introduce them. I'd far sooner have had a thumbs down indication for bad posts instead, to be perfectly honest.
Please don't give eBay ideas, or we might soon find ourselves overly worried about unfair negs and defects on the boards also.

I would like to know though, when & why feedback morphed from being a useful & informative guide to help reassure/caution buyers before buying from a seller, into the inflexible 'hall monitor' judge-jury-executioner disciplinary tool (aka monster) that it is now?

Re: Getting Rid of the Spammer

modestbods — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 20:20:03 GMT

@modestbods wrote:
...the inflexible 'hall monitor' judge-jury-executioner disciplinary tool (aka monster) that it is now?

aka, that >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxD-5z_xHBU

Re: Getting Rid of the Spammer

foxette-in-sox — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:52:47 GMT

You told them to 'go away'

Re: Getting Rid of the Spammer

i-love-my-sheep — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 04:15:39 GMT

@foxette-in-sox wrote:
You told them to 'go away'

If I said what I really wanted to say it would have all just been *bleep* *bleep* *Bleep* and may have earned me another detention 😄

That was the only G rated message I could come up with at the time. I didn't think they'd understand 'shoo'.