eBay Blocking bidder/seller communication!

[NEFAN]

I tried to contact this seller about payment methods and eBay blocked me out. Is this something new?

http://contact.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ContactUserNextGen

[NEFAN]

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Here's the message I get when trying to contact the seller:

We're sorry we couldn't find an answer for you. Unfortunately, this seller is not able to respond to your question. We suggest reviewing the item again to see if your answer is in the seller's listing.

[Samets]

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eBay is blocking everything possible to separate you from each other. I think they are looking to nip sales outside of eBay.

[Phil316]

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Here's the message I get when trying to contact the seller:

We're sorry we couldn't find an answer for you. Unfortunately, this seller is not able to respond to your question. We suggest reviewing the item again to see if your answer is in the seller's listing.

This is the message you get when a seller blocks you from bidding on their auctions and from answering any questions you have. eBay gives the option to block messages from people on your blocked list.

[earlywynnfan]

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Yeah, I don't think this is an ebay thing, it's a seller thing.


Ken

[trsent]

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This is the message you get when a seller blocks you from bidding on their auctions and from answering any questions you have. eBay gives the option to block messages from people on your blocked list.

Yeah, I don't think this is an ebay thing, it's a seller thing.

Ken

You are both correct - This seller has blocked you from bidding so you can't email them through eBay anymore.

As for eBay's messaging system. A couple days ago I paid for an item with PayPal, and the seller's PayPal account is not registered. I tried to email through eBay to tell them their email address has not been set up, but eBay wouldn't let me include their own email address in the message. Just a pain in the ass to work around.

[Samets]

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This doesn't seem to be an issue for sellers in China (Yet...)

This is a communication from this morning:

[GMEN92]

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Ebay has stepped up their blocking email game...so this one still works for me.. just put like this

Please email me mjjakab
That's a yahoo address

It always works for me my email is mjjakab@yahoo.com incase you didnt figure it out lol as some people dont lmao

[NEFAN]

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If the seller blocked me from bidding, I have no idea why. I've never had an issue with him. I just wanted to know if he'd take a money order if I won.

[jppopma]

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If the seller blocked me from bidding, I have no idea why. I've never had an issue with him. I just wanted to know if he'd take a money order if I won.

I've received the same response and also do not know why a seller that I had never dealt with would have me blocked. I am wondering if there is something where sellers can opt out of receiving messages and just put "stock answers" in for ebay.

Considering that Ebay owns Paypal and uses that as their preferred payment system..they may have "money order", "western union", or other words blocked the same way they do emails.

[NEFAN]

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Well I tried to bid and I am blocked from bidding, no clue as to why. I can't recall any transactions with flipsyr before. Guess I'll spend it somewhere else.

[earlywynnfan]

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Well I tried to bid and I am blocked from bidding, no clue as to why. I can't recall any transactions with flipsyr before. Guess I'll spend it somewhere else.

Flipsyr?? Seriously? After the threads that have gone on here about him, he's doing you a favor by blocking you.

He probably blocked all of us.

Ken

[kudu]

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NEFAN, you say you can't recall any transactions with him, yet your ID pops up on several previous threads regarding "flipsyr". One of them, you claim that flipsyr called and threatened you:

http://www.gameuseduniverse.com/vb_forum/showthread.php?t=52212&highlight=flipsyr

Why would you want to communicate/deal with this seller??

[scottishcowboy41]

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Here's the message I get when trying to contact the seller:

We're sorry we couldn't find an answer for you. Unfortunately, this seller is not able to respond to your question. We suggest reviewing the item again to see if your answer is in the seller's listing.

The above messaging and also bidding issue happens to me on ebay.com now and again. Most of the time messaging and bidding is not a problem at all for me.

I live over in the United Kingdom where we have ebay.co.uk but obviously 99.9% of game used NFL items for sale are going to be in the U.S so I have been a member of ebay.com for many years too.

I have been on ebay for 9 years and have a 100% feedback record on over 3200 transactions. In my case I assumed my messages and bidding capacity were blocked where certain sellers in the U.S had barred any communication or bids from international buyers. So since you live within the U.S I have no clue as to why you have been affected by this blocking issue.

When my messages did get blocked using the full ebay.com site I was able to contact the seller via the ebay.com mobile app which was an excellent loop--hole. I have not had this happen to me for a while so I don't know if the app will still allow this.

With regards to banning email address sent via the ebay messaging service, this is now a very recent feature on ebay.co.uk too which is very frustrating when you want to close a deal by Paypal invoice and cut out the ebay middle-man.

I did notice that a buyer was able to send me their email address via the ebay messaging service AFTER they had purchased the item. They had a problem with their checkout so I just sent them them a Paypal invoice. Seems to be the email address blocking only occurs when the item is live or has ended unsold where you would have an option of an off-ebay sale.

Ebay is an evil genius! But I love it and would be lost without it!

[helmets]

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NEFAN, you say you can't recall any transactions with him, yet your ID pops up on several previous threads regarding "flipsyr". One of them, you claim that flipsyr called and threatened you:

http://www.gameuseduniverse.com/vb_forum/showthread.php?t=52212&highlight=flipsyr

Why would you want to communicate/deal with this seller??

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