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t-mobile suck rigth now i can not call it been 5days i anit call no one but i go pay when u go im think say !@#$ t-mobile

This exact thing just happened to me too. I went through and carefully unselected everyone I did not want to send an invitation too. I hit send and nothing happened. I too hit send again and my whole list went. I am totally embarrassed! Now I am painfully going through and withdrawing the invitations, but they have all received the e-mail, so I feel stupid. What a spam job! – redrunner, on September 14, 2008 21:44

According to some text somewhere on LinkedIn, it says that when you click withdraw, the recipient DOES NOT receive any email whatsoever, it just seems to prevent them from then accepting the invitation once its withdrawn. – ak131, on September 11, 2008 12:33

so does the recipient get a notification that you've withdrawn the invitiation? – pj, on September 11, 2008 10:11

Can someone tell me what happens when you withdraw an invitation that you accidiently sent? Does the recipient recieve another email notifying them that the invitation was withdrawn? I hope that is the case for I have the same issue of unintentionally sending emails to contacts on an imported list.

Well done Linked In

I’ve exact the same problem. I’ve joined linked and wanted to connect to the my relations how already had linked In. I was already aware of the spam problems from linked in because a friend had the problem. He mailed his entire address book. I didn’t want that to happen so was very carefully... I loaded my contacts from gmail and selected the friends with linked in. Ik clicked “invite selected contacts” and the site didn’t do anything so I clicked again. What happened? Linked in had selected ALL MY CONTACTS again end send them an invitation. I didn’t get a warning at all (wouldn’t be so strange if you are about to mail a few hundred people!). The people include instructors from my university, colleague and people I don’t know any more or want to know any more. I was really devastated.

After this I wanted to remove them from the list, but I couldn’t see how. Inviting was so easy, getting rid of it impossible. They all got a reminder and after that a warning that my invitation was about to expire! After the lost one I’ve got a lot of reactions from people asking why they are getting the annoying mails. I looked on google and saw this topic. So you can withdrawn them!! And how? I couldn’t find it the first time (and in general a’m very familiar with computers) and after finding it you have to do it one by one! And here you get your warning.. are you sure to withdrawn this invitation?? You should have give me the warning when I was about to send the invitations.

You want to be a professional networking website?? Act like it!

Jay - perhaps that's a new feature. This conversation was posted 9 months ago. There was no delete account function at that time. – Courtney, on August 28, 2008 14:05

its called the delete account button – Jay Turner, on August 28, 2008 10:08

Many thanks for this Steve. Outstanding support!! Much appreciated.

Ace, thanks for getting in touch. I've confirmed that your invitations have been withdrawn. If there were any outstanding that you actually wanted to issue, you will need to send them again.

Thanks also for reporting this new bug. I hope to have it fixed by the end of this week.

I have now sent Steve an email, which will hopefully help to resolve this. Does anyone else get a screen freeze when trying to withdraw a linkedin invitation and then see the following URL http://www.linkedin.com/mbox?displayM... – Ace, on August 25, 2008 18:01

Well it just happend to me, so it does not look like linkedIn has fixed anything over the past 3 months. Also, when I try to withdraw an invite, the screen freezes and goews grey and I never get the chance to confirm, so I am not sure whether the invite has been withdrawn or not. I have reported this to LinkedIn via their website, but have just got an acknowledgement, not a solution. Is Steve still out there and can you help?

I've had the same issue I think, which has led to privilege removal issues leaving me to go through the laborious customer service process. This is particularly annoying for a business user. The real problem (I think) is a backlog of pending invitations because at some point my address book got loaded entirely by accident. So it's no wonder some people don't like getting the invite to connect. How /where do I go to empty the pending invite list and remove the addresses from my account - other than those that I am already connected with. I only wish to invite those I want to connect with. I do not want anyone else, including LinkedIn, to automatically ask people on my behalf. Any answers on this very timely and greatly appreciated. David – dtk, on August 13, 2008 20:52

Invitation emails are sent fairly quickly so it's likely that they will be received by your contacts.

By withdrawing invitations-- does it remove the actual email that is sent out to my contacts? this is my main concern

Micki, OAuth (or an alternative) would provide a much safer way of authenticating to import friends from other services. We currently use Yahoo!'s BBAuth for importing their address book and are working on implementing Google and Microsoft address book import via their respective API's to avoid asking users for their user name and passwords on those systems. – Steve Ganz, on June 29, 2008 02:52

open ID is great for creating a profile but it doesn't import your friends... How do you do that? – Mickipedia, on June 28, 2008 22:15

miamipete001: Sorry to hear you're having this frustration. Your problem might get more visibility if you start a new topic. This conversation about T-Mobile is pretty old, and I worry that your problem may get lost tacked down here. – Eric Suesz, on June 05, 2008 16:51

I just started service with TM, and love everything about it, including my SK-LX, (best phone I ever purchased) but I also have received a lot of running around, and passing the buck, from one department to the other.

Out of the four to six hours i also spent trying to resolve the use of short code, this is what I gathered.

Tech Support said that short code could be used on either a "post pay" or "flexpay" account, but not on a "prepaid" account - After switching to flexpay, from "prepaid", guess what ? No access to short code.

Called CS again, and this rep, after speaking to her supervisor, as did the other prior reps, came back with the heart breaking news that short code is only allowed with a "post paid" account.

I find it aweful and a bad business practice, for all this running around from one department to another, with finger pointing, among themselves. (TM is spending a lot of money on supporting this issue instead of resolving it, silly) I think they should just tell us flat out what the issues really are, money, spam, etc., period.

My other thoughts are TM has found a way to push customers to a contractual "post pay" style of account.

I am still on flexpay, and am not switching to post pay.

My overall staisfaction rating, including support for TM, is GREAT.

PS: If enough people chatter, maybe they will give us back the "short code".

another mac user here, but now that you mention it... vans website won't work in firefox for windows, too.