I have tried that with the same results. I have also tried to contact someone I did business with recently with the same message, so I had to go into one of their current auctions to get hold of them. When there is an incomplete or fraudulent item I usually contact the seller, if I feel it is a real threat to the buyer. Usually they say they didn;t know, will take it off ebay or relist with new info, and lots of times they do. Once in a while though I get an angry response, which tells me they know they are selling fraudulently. Then I report them to ebay. I don't do this very often, as it really is a buyer beware system and I can't save the world, but it actually physically gets me to think someone is buying in confidence when they are going to get ripped off. I don't do it with the repro gramos anymore, because there are too many on ebay. John Robles
Dennis Back <[email protected]> wrote: I was trying to write an ebay bidder (non-phonograph related) about an item they were bidding on that was incomplete, but the seller didn't mention this. I clicked on the bidder's name, which took me to his feedback page. I clicked on contact the member. I wrote a message. When I tried to send the message I got a reply saying in effect that ebay SOMETIMES blocks emails when you have not done business with a member. This is that ebay message I got: (ebay message) ---------------------------- <<< "Attention! We have determined you are trying to contact an eBay member with whom you are not currently involved in an open transaction. For the protection of the eBay community, we sometimes block these types of communication. To prevent this occurrence from happening in the future, we recommend the following: * If you are a seller, respond to all bidder questions before the auction ends. * If you are trying to contact the seller of an item that has not yet ended go to the item page and click the ?Ask seller a question? link. * If you are the winning buyer of an item go to your My eBay page under the items I?ve Won section. Click the action drop down menu and choose the ?contact seller? action. * If you are a seller trying to contact your wining buyer, go to My eBay and under the Items I?ve Sold section, click the action drop down menu. Choose the ?contact buyer? action. * Reply to seller/bidder through personal email provider (if the sender has not hidden their email address). Thank you for your understanding." >>>> -------------------------------- (end ebay blurb) So now ebay will not even let you contact someone else to warn them about problems!!!! I realize they are probably doing this to prevent people from writing others saying they have the same item for sale, only cheaper. I tried this about a month ago, so this is not new. Has anyone else had this problem and if so, is there some other way to contact a member? It appears that we (unsuspecting ebay buyers) are now even MORE trouble, and it is REALLY "buyer beware" with no help from the honest ebay community. Dennis ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
