I am so annoyed!!  My personal telephone number has been listed on this site as an unverified alternative to paypal - I have received numerous unwanted calls. When I used the contact us link it advises these posts may not be read and to use the forum. Of course you have to register for this!!  What an unmitigated waste of my time. Please remove my number from your site and put in place a method where you can be contacted directly to deal with such problems. What a joke a site like this has  no contact phone number.

Very angry from Hackney

Thank you -- and what about the idiot who posted my number? You obviously  have their details, surely you will investigate. Further will there be a more transparent way of contacting those administering the site?

Dave wrote on Mar 24^th, 2009 at 1:07pm:


Dave,

While you may have an IP address for the person who added this number clearly people don't have to be registered users of the site to add an alternative number.  You may want to reconsider this and whether for instance alternative numbers should only be able to be added by those who have made at least five forum posts that have not shown themselves to be malicious in intent.

OTOH, it could be an easy and cheap way to drum up a bit of business in these recessionary times (list you own business's number as an alternative to a major competitor).