Is it obligatory for eBay.com to ban me from communication with seller? | Buying

tomahak0 · 2023-06-13T11:22:02.271000Z

I am an eBay.com buyer that need more information from seller on advertised items up for sale before buying items. Seller welcomes questions from buyers on item to omit misunderstanding in ad descriptions at eBay.com . I am logged in with my eBay account prior to sending my questions to seller on eBay.com.Next to item I choose to contact seller by writing my queries inside the message box with limited space for text. [Many times my specific questions includes information on how the item is to be used and my expecting result from its capacity during usage - most of the times, the items is no longer manufactured and cannot be seen in reality at a sellers store in the country where I am. Simply, there is not enough space to write down the details for the limited characters to use including the spaces. I work outside of USA in a different time zone in the continent where I operate and cannot use the telephone for calling seller at 2.30 AM for answering my question on item. I understand the seller can provide me with E-mail address for communication outside of closed-in eBay.com regulations but in some cases eBay.com interferes actively with closing down my communication via eBay.com, which prohibits me accessing the seller.This has happened in the past and I lost the deal in that business.For that loss, I contacted an outside secure website for help, and with participating authority filed claim against eBay.com.Later eBay.com sends me information on a similar deal, that I turn down because selling price is too expensive for my economy, and the fact of (in my experience) targeted interferences resulting in deliberately annoying me to become furious towards eBay.com.Anyway, this time seller has received one part of my message, sent 2023-06-12, but not the important second part on specific details for item including my offered buying price for discontinued Casio watch. Today 2023-06-13 is next day and the block prohibiting me to communicate with seller is active. From experience, with some of the other sellers at eBay.com, this one is not living up to the 100% trusted seller criterium because of deleted e-mail address (that I had for contact with seller outside of https://www.eBay.com) including wiping away all information with history from data base after the items is sold behind my back, not respecting our mutual agreement to wait for my money arriving to my account in bank.(The seller is informed of my low economy).Possibility to solve this, I found the similar item for sale on eBay.com in Canada with active Buy Now listing that later on is sold in auction (ended on Jun 11, 2023 at 10:40PM).Prior for item going to auction, I clicked the Make offer button and contacted the seller for offer.As reference to his product, I enclosed photos on item recently lost with seller (from Japan and selling in Japan) that did not conform to mutual agreed business deal. The new seller answers my message with informing me listing is old and accusing me of being a scammer. He is going to report this to eBay including me having active account since year 2017, and he is not answering to my price offer for his item. ?. Nearly five days later from his received message, eBay.com sends me an e-mail notifying me to not forget the auction for that item ending in 16 hours (from the time I opened the message in my e-mail client).Confident with informative message, online I open the auction for bidding and a pop-up window from eBay.com informs me that seller is not accepting delivery to address in the USA.I log out from auction with my eBay.com account.Anew, I log in one more time to the auction and repeat the same previous steps.New message informs me of NO delivery in USA. I close down the active eBay auction site and log-out from my eBay.com account. In short time (in two to three and a half weeks) Japanese seller in Japan actively did a breach in mutual business agreement by selling item to somebody else without notifying me.The same scenario happened recently with new seller in Canada. I do comply with eBay.com policy for online business and want to get a good deal that my finances allow to pay for. I have no bad history with eBay.com and am a returning buyer to eBay.com.If eBay.com is not the platform for people selling goods to buyers (and vice versa) then my recent perceived experience is not positive. I do not find eBay.com helpful at all. However, previous experiences with eBay.com have only been positive.Should I be skeptical now? tomahak0ðŸ™‚

Discussions

Is it obligatory for eBay.com to ban me from communication with seller? | Buying | eBay Community