Show HN: PayPal emailed me today about 2001 request

#1

Post by paulkrush » Fri, Aug 28, 2020, 1:59 PM UTC

So I sold something on eBay 19 years and PayPal is let me know today the person is not going to pay via PayPal. They must have sent a check... Anyone out there getting older updates that this from ancient systems? 90's 80's?

Auction Money Request Cancelled

Hello Gemhunt.com ,

Peek-A-Boo 4-U cancelled the following auction money request:

Seller: Gemhunt.com (sales@gemhunt.com)

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Money Request Details ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Seller's User ID:

Amount:$1.99 USD

Shipping & Handling:$2.90 USD

Insurance:

Total Amount:12.85 USD

--------- Item Information ---------

Item #:1613176702

Item Headline:400 Rough Diamonds * No Reserve!!!

Item Quantity: 0

Item Unit Value: $1.99 USD

Item Number:1613176702

Auction User ID:

Item URL:http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1613176702

End Date:Jul 11, 2001

Item Title:400 Rough Diamonds No Reserve!!! Here is a message from Peek-A-Boo 4-U: Thanks for bidding, My eBay ID is Gemhunt. com, My address for checks or money orders is: Mosaical Memories Inc, 2319 Fairview Ave, Fox River Grove, IL 60021, I ship the day after I receive payment, Thanks again, Paul Krush

To view updated details of this auction money request, click on the following link or copy and paste the link into your web browser:

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_prp&id=T2W67WUZYG-a-b6NaJekbs

Sincerely,

PayPal

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Re: Show HN: PayPal emailed me today about 2001 request

#2

Post by otterlicious » Fri, Aug 28, 2020, 5:26 PM UTC

Peek-A-Boo 4-U cancelled the following...

There is a pending payment requests section in PayPal. The buyer finally noticed it and cancelled it.

You would think they would expire these after some time. Imagine if the buyer completed the payment 19 years later??

Re: Show HN: PayPal emailed me today about 2001 request

#3

Post by mcraiha » Fri, Aug 28, 2020, 5:27 PM UTC

That beats Duke Nukem Forever pre-orders receipts.

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#4

Post by JaceLightning » Fri, Aug 28, 2020, 7:01 PM UTC

This seems like spam and not a real request. The amounts don't even add up to the total.

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#5

Post by zxcvbn4038 » Fri, Aug 28, 2020, 7:13 PM UTC

After I left high school I signed up with a temp agency, filled out all the paperwork, never heard anything. Twelve years later, I received a phone call. I explained I had been employed full time for over a decade. They said that if I refused the assignment I might not be eligible for future opportunities. I told them I was ok with that. ;)

Along the same vein, a few years ago I had an employer that wanted proof I graduated high school. Blink. "You realize that I graduated almost forty years ago?" Didn't matter. Believe it or not I actually found the school system and they were able to produce a copy. I'm sure they had to climb over Jimmy Hoffa's cryotube and the Ark of the Covenant to get to it.

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#6

Post by csunbird » Fri, Aug 28, 2020, 7:34 PM UTC

Would you mind removing any kind of personal information?

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Post by lolpython » Fri, Aug 28, 2020, 7:57 PM UTC

zxcvbn4038 wrote: post #5

After I left high school I signed up with a temp agency, filled out all the paperwork, never heard anything. Twelve years later, I received a phone call. I explained I had been employed full time for over a decade. They said that if I refused the assignment I might not be eligible for future opportunities. I told them I was ok with that. ;) Along the same vein, a few years ago I had an employer that wanted proof I gr…

My father had the same experience recently, with needing to prove he went to high school. He has an undergraduate degree and a graduate degree in creative writing, but he needed to have his old high school print out his diploma. In order for him to get a medical caretaker job.

Re: Show HN: PayPal emailed me today about 2001 request

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Post by paulkrush » Fri, Aug 28, 2020, 9:06 PM UTC

JaceLightning wrote: post #4

This seems like spam and not a real request. The amounts don't even add up to the total.

Oh it's real, I've gotten 3 of them in the past year. I sold 1000's of items back then. At this point I think it's kind of cool. I wish you could view your eBay history back to the beginning. You can go way back on Amazon.

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Post by nitro_luke » Fri, Aug 28, 2020, 9:14 PM UTC

JaceLightning wrote: post #4

This seems like spam and not a real request. The amounts don't even add up to the total.

I wouldn't trust the numbers paypal provides as far as i could throw them. My wife had to stop using PayPal for a whole host of reasons, namely could not figure how much money she made because the information displayed on the webpage was inaccurate and the reports were too confusing.

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Post by knolax » Fri, Aug 28, 2020, 9:19 PM UTC

lolpython wrote: post #7

zxcvbn4038 wrote: post #5

After I left high school I signed up with a temp agency, filled out all the paperwork, never heard anything. Twelve years later, I received a phone call. I explained I had been employed full time for over a decade. They said that if I refused the assignment I might not be eligible for future opportunities. I told them I was ok with that. ;) Along the same vein, a few years ago I had an employer that wanted proof I gr…

My father had the same experience recently, with needing to prove he went to high school. He has an undergraduate degree and a graduate degree in creative writing, but he needed to have his old high school print out his diploma. In order for him to get a medical caretaker job.

Was this an automated system he was dealing with? I can't imagine the type of person who would with a straight face demand a high school diploma after seeing a graduate degree.