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Why do Ebay Messages always have about 30 pages of what looks like HTML?

This has been going on for years. Why all this gibberish with the message? 

Plus every message I get doesn't have the message I sent them with it.  So I have to go to my Sent messages and try to find it.  Is Ebay really incapable of fixing such a simple problem? Imagine if you're sending out hundreds of messages a day and get replies.  How can you possibly remember what you asked all of them?  Does Ebay not see how important this is?  If we can't communicate properly with sellers how do you expect us to buy anything?  Its like there's a vacuum in the management structure in this bizarre company. 

First we have to find the item and then we have to be sure about the item.  If we ask a question we expect a clear answer.  And that may take more than one attempt because most of the stuff we're buying is from China and a lot of sellers from China don't speak English and are using machine translation, which, while being very imperfect, usually works OK if both sides are patient.  And most sellers from China are quite patient. 

Every other company I deal with manages to send me messages that make sense. 

(Its not browser related.  Happens in multiple browsers included the hallowed Google Chrome.)

I called Help.  What a joke.  Like talking to a child about how the Space Shuttle works. 

 

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Why do Ebay Messages always have about 30 pages of what looks like HTML?

oh-oh-no.gifEbay has always been so concerned with HTMLs, it's almost comical. Oooo... something contains an HTML!!   Stop the presses! Heaven forbid you should send something or post anything with an HTML in it!! 

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Why do Ebay Messages always have about 30 pages of what looks like HTML?

Change your communications preferences to allow HTML emails. I had tried changing to plain text and discovered that eBay sends only HTML and because of that, if you've said you only want plain text, they send the whole mess of code as plain text.

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