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[Closed] Any way to contact eBay seller..

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 DrP
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Without using their ebay 'contact me' form as they simply don't seem to be responding.

They had a van for sale that I wanted to view. Despite sending a few messages it never sold, and auction ended. But I never heard back from them, not even once.

I quite fancy looking at the van and want to make contact, but it seems they're either ignoring eBay, or it's not working for them...

So...STW web hacker peoples..any tips??

I know if you've bought something, you can 'release' the phone number, but I'm not in that position.

DrP


 
Posted : 19/05/2014 9:12 am
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Contact DVLA, tell them the van ran into you and you need the details 😈


 
Posted : 19/05/2014 9:20 am
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Have you considered that it is no longer for sale and he simply can't be bothered to tell you?


 
Posted : 19/05/2014 9:22 am
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Working on the off chance this wasn't the last van in the world for sale, I would recommend buying a different van.


 
Posted : 19/05/2014 9:24 am
 DrP
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Johndoh - should I move this to the 'I have been stood up' thread? 🙁

Jamie - I'm liking this approach....

Thanks for the answers to the OP chaps...!

DrP


 
Posted : 19/05/2014 9:25 am
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Nah, unless they've shared their email address in the "Community" section of ebay (you can search for usernames in there), you won't find it. Only way is if you've bought something from them and have the address through paypal.
Or you could try their username with every domain on the end (my email adress is the same as my ebay)
here's some to get you started:
@gmail.com
@yahoo.co.uk
@yahoo.com
@googlemail.com
@msn.com
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🙂


 
Posted : 19/05/2014 9:28 am
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We sold some stuff over the weekend (kids' garden toys). There was about 4 listings but someone wanted all the stuff so we pulled the listings and did a new one for all four at a fixed price - and they came around to collect, paying cash on collection later the same day.

Since then we have been bombarded with people asking if the things are still for sale, noticing they hadn't sold, offering to buy outside of Ebay etc - it sounds a similar thing may have happened to you.

I did tell everyone (I am nice like that) but I can imagine many people wouldn't be bothered.

So yes, you were stood up...


 
Posted : 19/05/2014 9:30 am
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I suppose so.
This thing was I was asking questions from day one of the auction (asking to see the van) so it's not like I was Desperate Dan and chasing him once the auction finished..
Oh wells..

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Posted : 19/05/2014 11:10 am
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Maybe there was no van and someone else has saved you the trouble of being scammed?


 
Posted : 19/05/2014 11:22 am
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[quote=johndoh ]We sold some stuff over the weekend (kids' garden toys). There was about 4 listings but someone wanted all the stuff so we pulled the listings and did a new one for all four at a fixed price - and they came around to collect, paying cash on collection later the same day.

Do you like paying ebay money?


 
Posted : 19/05/2014 2:07 pm
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Not really but I just wanted it sorting quickly without fuss - at least I avoided the PP fees though. She is buying some more stuff from us next week and that won't be via Ebay now...


 
Posted : 19/05/2014 2:09 pm
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I'm still confused as to why if you'd arranged everything outside ebay putting up a new listing made anything quicker or less fuss. Am I missing something?


 
Posted : 19/05/2014 2:38 pm
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I arranged it all via Ebay messages, it was late at night when I was sorting it and I just wanted someone to click 'BUY" and know it was sorted.


 
Posted : 19/05/2014 2:52 pm
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If they don't want to talk to you when you want to give them a large sum of money, I'd hazard that they wouldn't be falling over themselves to help if there was a problem. Therefore, I'd suggest that you don't want to give them a large sum of money at all.


 
Posted : 19/05/2014 3:06 pm
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Anything you send via ebay gets forwarded to their email anyway - so why will they respond to a direct email any differently.

I think the issue here is - you want to [i]see[/i] the van. Either there isn't a van, or there isn't a van anymore, or there is a van but the seller would rather sell it to someone who doesn't want to see it first.


 
Posted : 19/05/2014 3:55 pm
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BigButSlimmerBloke - Member
Maybe there was no van and someone else has saved you the trouble of being scammed?

This ^


 
Posted : 19/05/2014 3:57 pm