Re: Someone Jacking with my Listings

On 5 Nov 2005 12:31:37 -0800, jenniferclaerr@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>I have been having this problem with a disgruntled customer who was
>convinced that I was fleecing him with the shipping (I wasn't - my
>shipping costs were just really high). He cut himself a hefty discount
>and then when I warned him of the consequences he gave me back the four
>dollars he had robbed me of. Then there were some angry words and
>exchange of negative feedback.
>
>Then, the next thing I know the completed listing that this person had
>purchased was getting abnormally high traffic (more than 60 page views
>in three days), as was my feedback page. My traffic reports have not
>been functioning properly since this started (about November 1), and I
>have found many times that I look at parts of my traffic reports and
>there is no data. I'm unable to get any data on what traffic I've had
>today even though it's already 2:30 in the afternoon. Also, my unique
>visitors data is all zeroes. There's nothing there at all, it's like
>it's been wiped clean.
>
>Does anybody know what this could be? I can only conjecture, that he's
>attacking my listing somehow in an attempt to change it, or to change
>his feedback, or my feedback, or to crack my passcode. But I've never
>heard of or seen anything like this before. But I'm sure something's
>going on. I mean, a completed listing was my most popular page for all
>of November, and got more traffic than all of my active listings
>combined! Does he have some kind of software that can fudge the
>listings or the feedback? Or something that can crack passwords? What
>is going on?

<shrug> Someone may be discussing your auction on a mailing list or
newsgroup (as is done here frequently), and as a result a lot of folks
are checking to see it for themselves. I think you're moving past
simple curiosity into paranoia with your conjecture, though.




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Ty
Who is mostly just a
slightly skewed
Donna Reed

"If the power of judging be not separated from the legislative
and executive power, there is no liberty."
-- Montesquieu, "The Spirit of the Law" 1748
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