Weekly update. . .it's December

Well, it's December, this year has flown by and it's hard to believe it's almost over already. 😦 I have one event left for this year, hoping it will be a good one and hoping the weather gets better because it's an outdoor event and currently it's actually cold outside. 😏

I am working on refilling the Christmas color HP 3-in-1 display, along with restocking a few other things before Saturday. 

In annoying news goimagine has been under spam bot attacks. So, if you are a fellow seller just know: Goimagine's message center system is designed to let shoppers contact shops, because goimagine is a public marketplace anyone can create an account and message a seller. These spammers are using the "contact" button on your shop they do not have your email or phone number. The notifications are real the message is spam. 

Goimagine site support will NEVER use the message center to contact you, why would they, they have your email.

Goimagine does not process payments, if there was ever anything wrong with your shop's ability to process payments you would need to log into Stripe (the payment processor) and they will never message you in goimagine's message center because they have your email.

When you get an email notification it says, "a customer on goimagine has messaged you" in the subject line, the email says "You have a new message sent to you in goimagine." When you get the text notification (if you are signed up for them) it says "You received a new message through goimagine". None of them say the message is *From* goimagine, so never click any links inside message center messages that claim to be from "support".

Actually, just don't click unknown links, even if you receive an email from stripe or paypal or whoever do not click the link just go log directly into the site. If you do click one of these links and end up on a page asking for personal/financial info even if you do not enter info you should still run some anti-virus, anti-spyware checks, because the link itself may have some tracking or logging attached. 

It's scammer season, they ramp up in volume this time of year because they want to catch people not paying attention, they know we are distracted with holidays, family, travel, events, etc. so they try to take advantage and use fear tactics "threatening" your business don't fall for it. I know it's annoying to get a notification and get your hopes up that it's a sale only to find spam. I know it's frustrating that they just keep coming no matter how many are deleted there is always another. 😒 Now just for a moment put yourself in the shoes of goimagine staff, continuously monitoring the message center, chasing and tracing all these bots/spammers IPs blocking and deleting as fast as they can, constantly bombarded with reports, trying to respond and assure sellers that they are on it, all the while message boards are blowing up with people saying they don't do enough. 😟 I think they are humans doing the best they can against bots that don't sleep. I also think we should all try a little patience and grace this holiday season for all our fellow humans. 😇