Emails From Ebay

[mikey4444]

I use ebay quite a lot, almost always for buying, not selling.

But I get a lot of emails from them, almost every day and these are now becoming a nuisance. If I mark these as SPAM, will that affect important emails from ebay, from going into my in box ?

Or is there a way that I can ask ebay not to send me these marketing emails, but to continue to send me important ones ?

[fiction-factory]

Almost all the ebay emails i get are spoof/phishing emails rather than genuine ones. Are theyd efintely genuine? What sort of emails are they? Maybe there is an option on your ebay profile to elect not to receive marketing stuff

[Fitzer]

Go to your account in eBay and then communication preferences and you can change what mails you get sent, I only get mails re. things I'm bidding on or have placed in my watch list. I think if you flag them as spam then it's likely that all will end up as spam.

[Gavmacp]

I also get a lot of emails from eBay (I think). Yesterday I got one saying I hadn't updated my security for sometime I deleted this one immediately.

[mikey4444]

Fitzer....thanks ...I will try that straight away !

[mikey4444]

Done it....well, that didn't take long !

I am constantly amazed how knowledgeable and helpful AB people are !

Not sure how I would manage without AB now !

[EDDIE51]

I sell a lot of stuff on eBay but I never get emails from them just eBay messages.
emails will ALL be scams, I get them as well but they are NEVER from eBay, who as I said contact you via eBay messages NOT email.
I do get emails from PayPal both genuine and the occasional spam.
I have a 10 year old hotmail account but it sends all the scams to the trash folder.

[mikey4444]

Eddie ...all of these unwanted emails from ebay are kosher. They are marketing emails, starting with something like ::::

Today : amazing deals on ebay just for you XXXXXXXX.

Or similar ones, like reminding me of items that I looked at but not bought, or similar items to those that I HAVE bought...all standard marketing stuff !

When I followed Fitzers advice, and went into "communication preferences" I found out that you have to opt out, not opt in, to these communications, so its worth pointing out to people that perhaps they too, need to amend their details.I wasn't aware that I could opt out, until this morning.

[EDDIE51]

I must be 'opted out ' then, as I said I only ever get messages on 'eBay Messages' not email.

[mikey4444]

Eddie...I wish I had too !