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ReverseAuction Steals Email from EBay

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from the stupid-company-tricks dept

Fri, Jan 7th 2000 12:01pm -

Apparently, ReverseAuction went through eBay and scraped email addresses to spam them. It’s funny how folks have a very short term memory in this business. A few years back OnSale did the exact same thing, and got in a lot of trouble for it.


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