13 thoughts on “Save $5 off $50 eBay purchase”

  1. EBAY TEXT ALERT TERMS & CONDITIONS:

    By participating in eBay alerts you are agreeing to receive recurring autodialed marketing messages at the mobile number that you provided when opting into this program. Consent is not a condition of purchase. Message & data rates may apply.

    If you would like to be removed from the eBay text list you must text STOP or another reasonable equivalent to 70799 to opt-out. After texting STOP to 70799 you will receive one additional message confirming that your request has been processed. Text HELP to 70799 for help or contact customer care at http://www.ebay.com/help/home

    This program is not available to users of Google Voice.

    In the event that you change or deactivate your mobile number it is your responsibility to notify eBay at 70799 to have your number removed. eBay and any related third parties are not liable for TCPA violations that are caused by a carrier network failure or malfunction. eBay and any related third parties, including T-Mobile, are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.

    Additionally, eBay reserves the right to alter message frequency at any time i.e. we may change the frequency of texts that you receive under this program.

    2. Not a scam but with any promotion comes the likely downside to signing up. It’s like with most contests, remember the sign up to win a car at malls? You were basically providing your name, address and phone number for them to sell.

      Sign up if you wanna save $5 and get promo texts. Don’t sign up if you don’t like your info being sold to 3rd parties.

  4. After I did the text to the eBay #, not even 2 hrs later I got an advertisement text from a weed shop. I haven’t gotten high in over 20 years ?????. I just got another one today.

  5. Okay, I’m gonna tell everyone a story cause this text promo is no surprise to me for them to sell your info.

    Long ago, early in my tech career, I worked for a marketing company that had applications for email marketing and campaigning. They didn’t want to admit it but most if not all of their customers were just spammers, but they were doing it legally since all customers using their software platform that we hosted were required to send “unsubscribe” links.

    So I was curious, as we had a lot of big name companies and such as clients. I signed up for eBay with a new account (I quit for a while back in the early 2000’s as I stopped using eBay and I wasn’t buying comics and such) and noticed I started getting a hell of a lot of spam and marketing emails to a brand new email I had just setup for eBay cause I didn’t want to use my own personal email for buying and selling, just to keep things tidy.

    Nobody had this email except eBay and I’m suddenly getting marketing emails!!

    So since I had access to a lot of databases as I noticed some of these emails were from our own clients of my employer, I searched this new email of mine on all the databases. It showed up 15 times in 15 different clients, all around the time or shortly after I signed up for eBay.

    So, I sent a scathing email to eBay support. Of course I only get a reply telling me where I can “opt out of 3rd party marketing” which you can only do after you’ve signed up, not during signup at the time.

    So knowing how spammers (marketing, sorry.. they’re not spammers)… when you actually unsubscribe, they don’t actually delete your email or information, they just set it so you don’t get emails (usually after 24 to 72 hours), some even take weeks. Nothing is stopping them from selling your email address and info though. Your email is now in the system, it’s already spread far and wide. And yes, eBay sells your info. Despite you turning it off after you signup, the damage is already done before you tell them you want to “opt out”. I could only see what access I had at my employer so I’m sure my email got sold to many others. I still have access to that email and yes, it still gets the most spam out of any email account I have since I still use it for one of my eBay accounts.

    1. We got a new mortgage on our home. Went through a reputable mortgage company. Suddenly I am getting mortgage and other home related emails. Pissed me off

      2. It’s to the point where if you’re going to do something that’s a short term thing like the refinancing process, it might make sense to just create an alternate email account and then after the work is completed close/abandon the account.

        I’ve had the same email address for 20 years and I’ve been able to effectively manage unsolicited emails to just the ones that I want to keep receiving. A lot goes to spam but I never see those anyway.

        A lot of wasted bits of data out there, for sure…

        1. Yeah, I’ve had my primary personal email since gmail started. I have one for banking and others financial stuff, that I only use for such purposes. Then I started agentpoyo at gmail for doing giveaways and such. The personal one I’ve kept personal gets almost zero spam. Sadly the one I don’t give out but to banks and ties to accounts that deal with money gets spam (probably cause businesses give yo info to 3rd parties) and then my agentpoyo gets zero spam. It’s a unique name, so bots haven’t thrown it in their combination as of yet.

          I can spin up any email at any of my domains with relative ease and make them go away just as quickly. Much faster than signing up for gmail or yahoo, etc. I use to do that, create a randome hash @ mydomain when signing up for something I knew would be temporary. Maybe I should start doing that again but then again, I have a yahoo email account for such things, the spammy stuff. 🙂

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