Humpty Dumpty

From: Richard <legalize at xmission.com> discription, I've not had this, but I've had a *lot* of sellers (almost always big ones) who have sent me mails to the effect "I'll leave you positive feedback after you leave me positive feedback". I don't leave any feedback for them. As a slightly amusing aside, the only negative eBay feedback I have was from this Canadian douchebag dentist-in-training who was pissed I left him neutral (not negative) feedback that it took something like 3 weeks to ship two small packages. Not only did he leave me negative feedback, as some sort of juvenile "payback" attempt, he tried to subscribe me to a couple of dozen random mailing lists. Of course, every one sent me a "reply to this if you want to subscribe" email, which I ignored. Now, as it happens, I was a principle information security architect for a Very Large Telco at the time. There's a certain amount of pull associated with the job. Not being real bright, our eBay dork didn't notice some of the mailing lists involved were hosted at .gov sites. They we're more than willing to supply me with date/time/IP of the attempt to sign me up. Very easy to track back to some jerk in Canada rather than me in sunny Atlanta, GA. This resulted in a few personal calls to his school and ISP to the effect "I'm a senior security guy at Very Large Telco, but I have a little personal issue I was hoping you could help me out with...here's the issue, here's the evidence". They apparently had a really good time dressing this little putz down. Moral of the story...don't try to screw random strangers. You never know what kind of pull they have.