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IceBlueEyes · Top Poster

E-BAY ME PAGE

budnonymous · Top Poster

Using ebaY right now, for any purpose, is a fool's game.

IT is just plain DANGEROUS.

Anyone brave should be sure to have no js enabled, and no active-x if you are using IE.

There are ALOT of fake sign in issues all over right now, including reports of some pages which appear to be perfect forgeries, and perhaps another dark, looming secret, IMO.

We have all this saved.

IceBlueEyes · Top Poster

orange_cape_hides_me (Private ) View Listings \| Report	Mar-17-07 01:31 PDT	5 of 26
Ebay knows about this, hopefully it will be resolved soon. With the boards all aflutter about the new trojans, redirects and viruses that have appeared on the site, something like this is making the users (justifiably) very nervous. Just to remain on the safe side, make sure that your computer has all the most recent patches, regularly run spyware (preferably 2 different products) and virus protection on your computer regularly. Also change your Ebay password on a regular basis. Caped~

all this just to sell a vase? or a book? or bubble wrap? What a pain in the butt e-bay has become!

budnonymous · Top Poster

Awww! Cannot resist...

On an aside, if anyone reading along out there has any regard for the safety of their fellow ebaYers/consumers, now is the time to do the right thing.

Remember "the list"?

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Question about signing in to the boards?

annabelle0_0 ) View Listings | Report Mar-16-07 22:51 PDT
If I am on the boards reading the treads and go to look at an op's feedback, actually anyone that has posted on the boards, I have to sign in again and once I am signed in it takes me to a user who is "null" and they are no longer a registered member. This has been going on for about 4 days.I have never had this happen before. Any ideas?

26 replies Date posted Reply #

comfortably_numb! ) View Listings | Report Mar-16-07 22:58 PDT 1 of 26
Are you clicking on their username or their FB number? Clicking on the FB number (12) should take you to their FB profile page without having to log in. Clicking on their username might require you to log in since it takes you to a 'Contact Member' page, but I have no idea why you are seeing everyone as NARU.

What do you think you're doing?

mrspeeples ) View Listings | Report Mar-16-07 22:59 PDT 2 of 26
I am signed in it takes me to a user who is "null" I don't know about that, but someone else will come along that will be able to answer that.

You don't have to sign in to read other posters feedback, Just click on view listings, and then the feedback number.

orange_cape_hides_me ) View Listings | Report Mar-16-07 23:00 PDT 3 of 26
It's a glitch that has been reported on a lot of the boards for the last week or so.

Just back out of the page, then try again.

Caped~

annabelle0_0 ) View Listings | Report Mar-17-07 01:11 PDT 4 of 26
Thanks for the info!

It doesn't matter who's feedback I click on, I go to a sign in page and once I am signed in, it takes me to that member null's page, it doesn't take me to the feedback of the member that I am wanting to look at. Cape, you are right, once I hit the back button and click again on the feedback I want to see, it goes to the correct page.

orange_cape_hides_me ) View Listings | Report Mar-17-07 01:31 PDT 5 of 26
Ebay knows about this, hopefully it will be resolved soon. With the boards all aflutter about the new trojans, redirects and viruses that have appeared on the site, something like this is making the users (justifiably) very nervous.

Just to remain on the safe side, make sure that your computer has all the most recent patches, regularly run spyware (preferably 2 different products) and virus protection on your computer regularly. Also change your Ebay password on a regular basis.

Caped~

fenton.smith ) View Listings | Report Mar-17-07 10:19 PDT 6 of 26
Hey Orange. I just got a surprise. I clicked your private feedback symbol and I got to a page that shows your actual feedback. Somehow, I don't think that's the way things are supposed to work.

Remember the Stanley Milgram research.

pi_r_square ) View Listings | Report Mar-17-07 10:29 PDT 7 of 26
Example of the problem:

Member Profile: null (0)
No longer a registered user
Member since: Jul-12-98
Location: United States

Pi's Page The three "Gs" of getting scammed:
1) Greed 2) Gullibility 4) Gormlessness

mr_jats ) View Listings | Report Mar-17-07 10:33 PDT 8 of 26
I clicked your private feedback symbol and I got to a page that shows your actual feedback.

So tell us then, has she been buying orange undies again?

;)

fenton.smith ) View Listings | Report Mar-17-07 10:45 PDT 9 of 26
I did look a bit further and all it shows is the totals, not the actual comments or items. I don't know if there was a change, but private feedback used to not show anything other than the fact that it was private.

Remember the Stanley Milgram research.

orange_cape_hides_me ) View Listings | Report Mar-17-07 12:39 PDT 10 of 26
Fenton, it should show the totals. That's normal. It should show the total feedback, (positives, negatives, neutrals box), the percentage, and whether or not there are any bid retractions or MWs.

No, Mr. Jats, none recently. :) My amore, Cletus, prefers to do the shopping for me. And I don't have it in my heart to complain about the tacky squirrel skin unmentionables he buys.

Caped~

fenton.smith ) View Listings | Report Mar-17-07 14:11 PDT 11 of 26
That's a change from what it was when I was last active. And, for once, a change for the better. It used to be that with private feedback, you couldn't tell a thing about the user's feedback history. Question, could someone Google your user ID and find those auctions you won?

Remember the Stanley Milgram research.

orange_cape_hides_me ) View Listings | Report Mar-17-07 15:23 PDT 12 of 26
If the feedback has been private continuously, you can sometimes come up with feedback left by a member with private feedback, but you can't always come up with the transactions.

Is there a specific transaction in my history you're looking for?

Caped~

fenton.smith ) View Listings | Report Mar-17-07 16:06 PDT 13 of 26
No. Just curious about effective some eBay facilities are. I've just discovered that you don't need a user id and password to 'log on'. I no longer log onto the boards. It also appears that I can avoid logging onto the main site. Scarey huh?

Remember the Stanley Milgram research.

orange_cape_hides_me ) View Listings | Report Mar-17-07 19:39 PDT 14 of 26
What? Can you email me an explanation of what you just posted?

Caped~

fenton.smith ) View Listings | Report Mar-18-07 07:10 PDT 15 of 26
Orange, I e-mailed a link to Kathy7 and asked her to forward it to you. It is too long to get through the eBay message system.

Remember the Stanley Milgram research.

orange_cape_hides_me ) View Listings | Report Mar-18-07 11:01 PDT 16 of 26
Thanks, Fenton.

KATHY WAKE UP! lol

Caped~

jingle*jangle ) View Listings | Report Mar-18-07 11:05 PDT 17 of 26
Good grief, fenton !

fenton.smith ) View Listings | Report Mar-18-07 12:18 PDT 18 of 26
Kathy asked me if I was sure I wanted you to have the information. I told her to go ahead and let you have it, but please treat it with discretion.

You'll understand why when you test it.

Remember the Stanley Milgram research.

fenton.smith ) View Listings | Report Mar-18-07 12:19 PDT 19 of 26
Let's just say that there's a MAJOR security problem in the way eBay handles the boards.

Remember the Stanley Milgram research.

orange_cape_hides_me ) View Listings | Report Mar-18-07 12:36 PDT 20 of 26
Fenton, CYE. Use the 2nd one. I check it more often.

Caped~

kathyseven ) View Listings | Report Mar-18-07 13:25 PDT 21 of 26
Kathy asked me if I was sure I wanted you to have the information.

Just to set the record straight, I didn't even check my mail until about 11:30am. I tried the URL fenton sent and it logged me in alright...as fenton.
I replied with that bit of info and asked if he was aware of it and I mentioned that I hadn't sent it to anyone...yet. (was waiting for his reply)

Beware the button that takes you to a "Log In" page. Check My Messages First!

jingle*jangle ) View Listings | Report Mar-18-07 13:30 PDT 22 of 26
kathy

Logged you in as fenton ? Dear goodness. Just on the boards ? (These days you need to assume the worst. :()

orange_cape_hides_me ) View Listings | Report Mar-18-07 13:32 PDT 23 of 26
Kathy - CYE. Me too.

Caped~

kathyseven ) View Listings | Report Mar-18-07 13:32 PDT 24 of 26
Let's just say that there's a MAJOR security problem in the way eBay handles the boards.

It isn't just the boards. Recent news articles mention two other sign in problems that apparently weren't getting ebay's attention. One user was sent the standard reply to be careful about sign in on phishing URL's!

When security issues come up we should be able to send the info directly to someone who actually understands what's being told to them and they should be followed up on...but NOT with generic emails warning about phishing URL's! X-(

Beware the button that takes you to a "Log In" page. Check My Messages First!

orange_cape_hides_me ) View Listings | Report Mar-18-07 13:33 PDT 25 of 26
Kathy - Ebay didn't exactly respond to the virus warning either, did they?

Someone from the Tech department contacted me and asked what we were reporting ...his email address at Ebay bounced back as invalid.

Caped~

fenton.smith ) View Listings | Report Mar-18-07 14:27 PDT 26 of 26
Actually, you really don't get logged in. eBay allows you to bypass that step. As I told Kathy, I suspect that if I changed my password, that link would still work. If I find myself saying unacceptable things on the boards, I'll have to try it. Of course, there's always the possibility of an ID transplant, but, even then I don't know what would happen.

I think that if a hacker were to play around with that hole, eBay would find itself wide open; well, even more wide open.

Remember the Stanley Milgram research.

IceBlueEyes · Top Poster

W I D E open.

(and A hacker should be changed to The hackers)

budnonymous · Top Poster

Meanwhile, in/on a different part of the internet, folks are musing that Vladuz could or should hack the forums and make everyone or a just few pink.

Whatever is going on, with regards to the above CC&P, IT does not look good.

VoicesLie · Noob

if anyone reading along out there has any regard for the safety of their fellow ebaYers/consumers, now is the time to do the right thing

If you do the right thing and try to warn your fellow Ebayers, the Voices slither out from under their rocks and shoot you down. I've been called 'chicken little' for saying 'the sky is falling' and accused of trying to starve the families of those who feel they must 'do' Ebay. I've been accused of having 6 selling IDs, 6 buying IDs, and at least 6 posting IDs (I have 2 IDs) so anything said by me should be considered suspect and not credible.

They should know by now that I don't get run off easily but they keep trying. The trick is to drop into a thread with your warnings and, when the attacks on your character begin, skip out again. Give them no 'interpersonal disputes' to report you for.

budnonymous · Top Poster

VoicesLie wrote:

if anyone reading along out there has any regard for the safety of their fellow ebaYers/consumers, now is the time to do the right thing

If you do the right thing and try to warn your fellow Ebayers, the Voices slither out from under their rocks and shoot you down. I've been called 'chicken little' for saying 'the sky is falling' and accused of trying to starve the families of those who feel they must 'do' Ebay. I've been accused of having 6 selling IDs, 6 buying IDs, and at least 6 posting IDs (I have 2 IDs) so anything said by me should be considered suspect and not credible.

They should know by now that I don't get run off easily but they keep trying. The trick is to drop into a thread with your warnings and, when the attacks on your character begin, skip out again. Give them no 'interpersonal disputes' to report you for.
People should be made aware that there may be laws against all that.

People should start to file complaints, should they feel that something is afoul.

Let the government figure IT out, because WE certainly cannot trust them to tell the truth.

FTC Moves to Unmask Word of Mouth Marketing

-- Edited by budnonymous at 09:59, 2007-03-21

Cyber Diva · Senior Member

IceBlueEyes wrote:

For those thinking about using e-bay and for those already using e-bay, you need to be VERY careful about the information you place on your Me Page. It is the FIRST place internet stalkers go to get information that they can post all over the internet. You can become the target of a disgruntled buyer, or seller, and any info you provide on your Me Page, can show up on various hate boards, or porn sites, you name it. One well know stalker stated, " if it's posted on e-bay it's public information, and it's open game." It is protocol for Lieworld employees.
So protect yourself when using e-bay, because e-bay refuses to do it for you.

Great post, IceBlueEyes! In fact, There are some stalkers who have taken photos from eBay members' "About Me" pages and morphed them into vulgar, pornographic images. Not too cool. Might even be illegal.

-- Edited by Cyber Diva at 14:48, 2007-03-21

Cyber Diva · Senior Member

budnonymous wrote:

Using ebaY right now, for any purpose, is a fool's game.

IT is just plain DANGEROUS.

Anyone brave should be sure to have no js enabled, and no active-x if you are using IE.

There are ALOT of fake sign in issues all over right now, including reports of some pages which appear to be perfect forgeries, and perhaps another dark, looming secret, IMO.

We have all this saved.

Right on, Bud! As usual, you rock!

Cyber Diva · Senior Member

IceBlueEyes wrote:

orange_cape_hides_me (Private ) View Listings | Report Mar-17-07 01:31 PDT 5 of 26
Ebay knows about this, hopefully it will be resolved soon. With the boards all aflutter about the new trojans, redirects and viruses that have appeared on the site, something like this is making the users (justifiably) very nervous.

Just to remain on the safe side, make sure that your computer has all the most recent patches, regularly run spyware (preferably 2 different products) and virus protection on your computer regularly. Also change your Ebay password on a regular basis.

Caped~

all this just to sell a vase? or a book? or bubble wrap? What a pain in the butt e-bay has become!

all this just to sell a vase? or a book? or bubble wrap? What a pain in the butt e-bay has become!

LOL!!!!

xppman · Top Poster

Yep..we are almost DONE playi9ng with these ****ers.

See you guys on CNN ROFLMAO