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There is an ebay member that I need to contact....I've never had any dealings with him and it appears ebay wont divulge his email address. He hasn't had a transaction in over 6 years and has only 1 fb....
What I'd like is to ask him to abandon the id so I can pick it up. Are there any clever work-arounds to get his email address that you know of? I contacted his one trading partner from 6 years ago and he couldn't or wouldn't remember anything about it. So that idea crashed. Any suggestions?
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Is there not a contact member button to the right when you click on his feedback profile?
Can folks abandon an ID?
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Isn't there a link to contact the seller when you're looking at his/her feedback? Finding out their email is a little intrusive to me.
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Hi Chick,
I forgot to mention that I used that button...it brings up the ebay contact form. I used it and got no reply...that form is notoriously erratic about delivery....that's why I'd like a direct contact. And yes, you can abandon your id.
As far as getting the email address being intrusive, I disagree. Despite the bs that ebay laid on us about hiding addresses, the real truth is that they are trying to control every move we make. Hiding addresses is their way of preventing any activity outside their scrutiny....Big brother tactics....if you were around in the early days, ebay was a pleasure to use and was free of all the current smothering 'enhancements'.
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Independent of eBay's agenda and tactics (no argument there), I personally would not appreciate it at all if someone obtained my actual email address through eBay. Especially since eBay is such a fraud magnet.
It's possible the contact feature worked fine, but the intended recipient no longer uses that address, or doesn't check it frequently, or the mailbox is so choked with spam that your message went unnoticed. If it's just that delivery is erratic, you could try again several times.
Ms. C.
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If the person abandoned the id 6 years ago, the person's contact info might not even be up to date. If that be the case, the only way the person would know if they had a question would be to look in their my ebay, which the person wouldn't be doing if they've abandoned the id.
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I thought the My eBay correspondence is also sent via email, or at least that is what the Development Manager told me when I complained I wanted no part of the Correspondence going through the My eBay page and had marked the email correspondence options as how I intended to do business regardless of how eBay wanted to alter their end. He reassured me the notice and correspondence emails would continue although they would also be copied in the My eBay panel. For me this is all about eBay presuming it has the right to encroach in our businesses and alter how we run our business processes.
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eBay messages are sent to email, but if the email is an old one/eBay one, then the person might not have it.
Ms. C is voicing what I feel as well. I don't listen to eBay BS, bothering an abandoned would make me annoyed and feel intruded upon. Maybe the person died, maybe it was a joint account and they divorced, maybe they're members of the CIA under cover, who knows? I'm just saying anything's possible. I wanted a different ID when we started, but I'm glad we have ours now. Why do you want this id? Is it your URL?.
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I agree that I personally would not wish to be contacted by someone wanting my id no matter what the situation.
but
You could always report them for incomplete/incorrect contact information it might get them naru'd and then you might be able to pick it up later.
just throwing out an idea, I would never use it, I would just think up a more imaginative id.
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Originally Posted by gabs-a-lot
I agree that I personally would not wish to be contacted by someone wanting my id no matter what the situation.
but
You could always report them for incomplete/incorrect contact information it might get them naru'd and then you might be able to pick it up later.
just throwing out an idea, I would never use it, I would just think up a more imaginative id.
LMAO! You rock! That's a good idea. I probably wouldn't do this, but if you have thousands invested in a website and branding, sometimes it's worth it. I doubt the person's going to give a damn. Not there for 6 years, doesn't respond to messages... play ball! Lucky for us the URL we wnated was taken too, and we have the same URL as our name to keep things flush.