HELP want to track an ebay user.

well, there was a time when only paid accounts could use outlook etc, i don't use outlook anymore, i use Pidgin and Firefox......the less Microsoft on my lappy the better i feel......

but if they have a static ip, imagine how satisfying it would be to 'nuke' them with a big fat ddos....

i doubt you'll get an identifiable IP address off a hotmail email account anyway.  you'll just get one of several IPs used by hotmail's mailservers.

as regards feedback itself, i agree with Tee3 - i used to worry about ever losing my 100% record, but lately i've come to the conclusion its pretty much irrelevant.  i think people either:

* ignore feedback or dinnae understand the concept
i see high money items all the time, being sold by people with dozens of atrocious feedbacks; "item never arrived", "item was a fake" - yet people are still bidding on their stuff.  similarly, lots of people seem quite happy to bid on high money items from people with new accounts and no feedback at all

or...

* use the feedback in an informed [OK - nerdy] way
i'm in this camp.  OK - i'd probably not bid on an item if someone's feedback is down in the eighty % region.  but, with anything above about 95%, i'll click through and read the detailed feedback on whatever negs that seller has got.  quite a lot of the time i find myself still buying from a seller with the odd neg, if their comments show they're polite/apologetic/helpful [as appropriate] in acknowledging a problem or helping sort things out.

what will make me run a mile is when the seller gets abusive in response to a neg:

BUYER "goods never arrived"
SELLER "fucking idiot. does not know how the postal service works"

in those cases i just think "woah! - you're *really* the kind of person i want to be dealing with, if something goes wrong!"

so long and short of it - dinnae stress too much about an isolated neg. those who dinnae understand the feedback system willnae even notice it.  those who do will judge you more on how you respond to it.

[oh dear - you didnae call the buyer a 'scamming bastard' in your feedback comments, did you? ]

I once spent quite a lot of time gathering evidence that showed a guy who was bidding againsy himself to raise the prices on things he was selling. Shill bidder they call it. I sent all the info to ebay and they did nothing about it. The guy was still doing it long after. I just gave up.

theres lots of things you could  do, but what will you achieve?

I'd just report it to ebay as malicious, they can and do remove it... if it becomes a problem (if he repeats it) then take it further.

I certainly wouldnt waste any of my life on this guy. Negative feedback means very little. As long as your feedback is mostly good, most people will see through the negatives, especially if you respond to them with level headed comments like "no contact, leaves bad feedback for entertainment" or something...

IP address wont tell you much anyway, possible the town he lives in, but not even that in many cases

You can get the ip address from hotmail emails if you could sucker him into replying.

both accounts have hotmail e-mail addresses  yes googled the e-mail address and found that he is a user on a fourm i go on..

Originally posted by oldiebut goodie Not without having an email direct from him I wouldn't have thought. What do you hope to achieve with the ip address anyway?

Google his original Ebay user name. Most people tend to use the same user name for quite a few websites.
I find that usually helps me.

Steve

Not without having an email direct from him I wouldn't have thought.

What do you hope to achieve with the ip address anyway?