07-13-2025 12:47 PM
I have been having a problem lately contacting buyers about their purchase/s. When I try to leave them a message, it says seller not found. What's the deal??
07-13-2025 12:54 PM
@pops_toy_garage wrote:I have been having a problem lately contacting buyers about their purchase/s. When I try to leave them a message, it says seller not found. What's the deal??
Why do you want to contact buyers about their purchases? If they left feedback, you can leave it for them. Unless a buyer contacts you, there's really no need to contact them. (I've had buyers send a message to say they've received the item and are happy with it. I do respond thanking them for letting me know and I hope they enjoy the widget.)
I'm not sure what you mean by "seller not found" since you're the seller.
If you need to send a random message to a buyer, you can go to the order and in the dropdown box, find the "send message" button and contact them that way.
07-13-2025 12:57 PM
Hmm. I was just looking at your feedback page.
Are you referring to leaving a response to their feedback? If so, in each feedback, on the right side of the page, there's a "reply" button which you can press and thank them, as it appears you've done.
Is that what you mean?
07-13-2025 01:45 PM
How are you contacting your buyers? What page are you starting from? What link are you clicking? What do you see, exactly?
07-13-2025 01:49 PM
I have to admit, pop, that I'm a bit confused, too. Can you explain what you're ticking to get your results? 🤔
07-13-2025 02:56 PM
@pops_toy_garage wrote:I have been having a problem lately contacting buyers about their purchase/s. When I try to leave them a message, it says seller not found. What's the deal??
Have you changed your user ID recently? The embedded links in the Community post here for viewing your feedback or your listings have a stored user ID of "padarb-44" which must be manually edited to "pops_toy_garage" before the links will work. I'm wondering if the message that you're trying to send is attempting to set up padarb-44 as the sender ID (the seller), but failing to find it.
@pops_toy_garage : Can you tell us in a bit more detail on what page you're located when you try to send the buyer a message? Does the error occur before or after you have typed in your message?
07-13-2025 03:06 PM
Have you changed your user ID recently?
Good catch! That can definitely cause odd issues.
If you have not signed out of your eBay account since changing your username, try explicitly signing out of eBay, restarting your browser, then signing back in. That should allow the username change to propagate throughout your account.
07-13-2025 03:12 PM
This is the 4th post you've made in 2 days concerning the same subject matter. It's unnecessary and it's also spamming the boards, which is a no-no in the forum pages.