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Hi all,

 

I ran into an interesting situation today that I'd like some help with. An email address of mine is associated with both my Ebay account and my Facebook account. Yesterday I purchased goods from a company via Ebay who have today used my email address to look for me and 'friend' me on Facebook.

 

I don't wish to sound like I'm making a mountain out of a mole hill but in my view they've used my email address in a manner other than intended.

 

Are they doing anything wrong? I suspect not, at least legally, but I don't think it's acceptable.

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Just reject the friend invite on Facebook.

 

Bit of a grey area. Can they use info you gave them to contact you. Normally they have to ask or you have to tick/untick a box if you don't wish to be contacted.

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Thanks unclebulgaria, I did reject the friend request, and I see what you mean about it being a grey area. In my view, even if I gave them permission to contact me, which I didn't, they should be doing so via email, not using my address for a completely different purpose, which I see it as.

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You're lucky it's just them

People simply don't realise what dca's can see and use from Facebook either

please don't hit Quote...just type we know what we said earlier..

DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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Although eBay CS may well say that the seller hasn't done anything wrong, this is against eBay's User Agreement which has recently been updated.

 

It is intrusive and the seller has no business stalking you around the internet.

 

If you've not done so already, I'd still say report them to eBay for breeching the rules on unwanted contact, using a third party website without your permission and which is nothing to do with eBay, If you are still going to leave feedback, do not mention the FB issue because if the seller complains to eBay, they'd be daft enough to remove the feedback on the grounds that it's nothing to do with the transaction, so just mention something like you're not happy with after sales contact, or something similar.

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