The eBay user known as billsmithautoparts is at it again. Not only did they jerk me around the last time I did business with them (which I throughly documented in that link), but now they’re continuing to harass me, as shown in their comment to me.
Yes, their original comment was from the name “Eat Me”, and was just a one-liner stating that I was a device used to introduce a stream of water into the human body, and introducing me to a rugby song. However, I felt extremely confident renaming it, since the comment was not only posted by the same email address they use for their business as posted on their eBay page (usedcarparts@comcast.net), but they have their very own IP block leased from AT&T WorldNet that this particular message came from. So I have two pieces of evidence that this message was, indeed, from them, not to mention it follows the writing style they use when they’re annoyed at someone.
So if you’re watching my blog now, Melissa O’Brien, George O’Brien, or Amanda Dehn (the three people listed on the billsmithautoparts eBay profile), know that your little stunt on my blog has gone noticed, and I’m bringing it back to people’s attention. Smart businesspeople know that anything said or done on the internet can and will come back to bite you. Your salvage yard may have been in operation since 1929 (as your website proclaims), but your internet sales image needs a little improvement.
Update 10.12.08: The onslaught of comments has continued - they’re now just unpublished, but now that I’ve blacklisted the IP block owned by Bill Smith Auto Parts from accessing any of my websites, the perpetrator has had to use other internet links, and this person has been leaving their name now: George T Obrien, tied to a few personal email addresses that I am not at liberty to publish… yet. Since he is on the Comcast ISP, I really don’t want to block his entire ISP, as that represents millions of people. So I ask: Stop. Stop, unless you want to tarnish your company’s image even more - I know quite a few people who will Google a company before buying from them, and when searching bill smith auto parts (with spaces) I am result number 23 (after all the paid endorsements and yellow pages links), and searching without spaces (as your company’s eBay name reads), my entries are showing up as number 4. How’s that gonna look to people Googling you?
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