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Venting is not good. It is the negative expression of thoughts, verbalized. Leads to "I should not have said that".
I have acquiesced to my inner Moderator. I stay on topic, no matter how much it hurts. I subscribe to "say nothing".
I can understand what the OP is upset about, and he has a point (although made rather violently). I too had a very similar experience when trying to sort out some shipping questions with a buyer who had already purchased a few items.
In my case, after having carefully composed my message on eBay Messages, I hit the send button and -- lo and behold -- the whole message got scrapped by eBay, and I was left with a blank screen and a paternalistic pop-up rapping my knuckles which must have been triggered by my having used the word (get this!) email in my message to the buyer. Not any actual email address, but the word itself. The sentence was something along the lines of "Please email me if you have any further questions....".
Well, you know what I did? I said the heck with this, grabbed my Paypal transaction record and sent my message to the buyer directly from my personal Yahoo account.
Now I ask you, what did eBay gain from that? Had I actually been inclined to enter into an off-eBay transaction, having my initial message to the buyer dumped by eBay would have probably angered me enough to do exactly that, through my own email system (if I weren't the rational person I try to be). 
You know, eBay has become so paranoid about protecting itself from outside sales that it's making inside sales difficult. You can't send a normal message to a buyer anymore without worrying which word will set off the eBay bots. You certainly have to be very careful if you send a message to a previous buyer, inviting them to contact you if they are interested in having you list something else for them. In the real-world, this is called follow-up marketing - virtually impossible to do in any direct way through eBay.
This was not the first time this has happened to me either. The trouble is, on this occasion I forgot to copy my message before hitting the "send" button, in case the whole thing got taken down. Next time I probably won't bother to use the eBay message system at all.
@froogal_electronic_parts_and_overstock wrote:
@mr.elmwood wrote:Venting is not good. It is the negative expression of thoughts, verbalized. Leads to "I should not have said that".
I have acquiesced to my inner Moderator. I stay on topic, no matter how much it hurts. I subscribe to "say nothing".
Just squeeze your rage into a bitter little ball and release it at an approprate time. Like that day I hit the referee with a whiskey bottle. Remember that, when daddy hit the referee?
HJ Simpson
Then they wonder why they are in trouble and do not get their way. The "not me" crowd that believes excessive and destructive behaviour is okay.
OK, let's try semaphore -- anyone remember? Calling all former Brownies....
