If you can't speak, well, it's probably too late for you anyway
Yeah, we might as well just kill the people who can't speak... and then we'll kill all the blind people... and then everybody in wheelchairs... and then the Jews, Blacks, Chinese, Mexicans....
Those non-speaking people really have a lot of nerve. Who gave them the right to own phones? Before you know it, they'll even be on/. What a bunch of uppity fuckers.
Since you mentioned eBay specifically, I'll share my experience with them. I set up aliases for each of my eBay accounts. It seems that eBay adheres to its TOS, but the problem is that they necessarily give my address to the other eBay user I'm doing the transaction with. Many of those people are OK, but a significant minority of them seem to either get viruses or simply use eBay to harvest addresses for spam. I know this because as time goes on, I receive more and more emails at those aliases (not from eBay.com, but from the schmucks I must have done business with on eBay).
Fortunately, eBay seems to be working on this problem. Their announcement on July 16 says they will soon allow sellers to answer potential buyers' questions without the seller having to reveal his email address. It's about time.
I do this too. What's really amazing is that, not only are there good businesses like Amtrak that don't violate their TOS, but there are also lots of businesses that ask for my address and then never use it. I've got aliases that haven't received any mail at all since I created them (sometimes for years). With businesses so eager to get customers, it makes me wonder why they would ask for my email address amd then not send me anything at all.
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Yeah, we might as well just kill the people who can't speak... and then we'll kill all the blind people... and then everybody in wheelchairs... and then the Jews, Blacks, Chinese, Mexicans....
Those non-speaking people really have a lot of nerve. Who gave them the right to own phones? Before you know it, they'll even be on /. What a bunch of uppity fuckers.
Fortunately, eBay seems to be working on this problem. Their announcement on July 16 says they will soon allow sellers to answer potential buyers' questions without the seller having to reveal his email address. It's about time.
I do this too. What's really amazing is that, not only are there good businesses like Amtrak that don't violate their TOS, but there are also lots of businesses that ask for my address and then never use it. I've got aliases that haven't received any mail at all since I created them (sometimes for years). With businesses so eager to get customers, it makes me wonder why they would ask for my email address amd then not send me anything at all.