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It is someone SELLING Avalanche Spa Powder. These all are checkout pages of sellers, not transactions. This particular checkout was probably indexed from legalhighaz.com which was run by https://twitter.com/legalhighsaz

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I see. Now I feel bad for overreacting. In my defense, these pages look a lot more like receipts than purchase pages. I would normally expect a purchase page to have some visually emphasised call to action. I still genuinely feel a little guilty for contributing to any hysteria about this with my comment above though.

Well, it seems that almost everyone in this thread and on Reddit are wrong on this one.

Exactly, I don't see what the big issue is here. It is not the buyers info and it is not specific to a single transaction. It is the equivalent of doing this search for paypal: http://www.google.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paypal.com%... You can find lots of freely available e-mail address and/or information by doing so.

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