My first post here, I tried searching for this problem but didn't find anything.
I recently sold a relatively high priced buy it now electronics item, fairly quickly. Even so, it generated a lot of views, and 4 watchers. Payment was immediate and the buyer had a good feedback record. Almost immediately I started receiving emails from other ebay IDs, through ebay in my message box, with the subject heading of my listing. When the first one came across I didn't really take note of the sender ID and thought it was the actual buyer. Well, it was very bad spelling, grammar, etc, requesting I send it to a new address. I then cross checked and saw that it wasn't the actual buyer. I then proceeded to get 3 more of these emails, again through ebay in their message box, 4 total, coincidentally the same number of watchers. All were accounts opened within the last month.
I have talked with ebay twice now about the first 3 emails, and will give them a call now that I've gotten a 4th, but their response/concern seemed underwhelming. Especially given it is their email system that is being utilized to possibly scam their own sellers. They did remove the 3 users, but now I have to give them another call to tell them to remove another. I asked them why they do not prohibit contact of the seller by other buyers through that item listing after a sale is done, and they gave some response that sounded like it would basically impact their sales revenue.
I don't sell a ton on ebay and almost never high priced items, but this definitely has given me pause to sell such items in the future.
