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Anonymous · October 8th, 2003, 04:44 PM

Ebay is an odd enough cyber-land that I figured I might run across something like this eventually. But here's the 411:

I recently won an auction on a guitar. I contacted the seller, everything seemed fine, but when he got back to me with a shipping price, he asked to have the payment (money order) made out to a different name. Well, okay, so maybe he owes someone some money or something.

But after mentioning to him in two separate emails that I wanted his phone number before sending payment, he has now emailed me back and said, "I gave you all the important information. I do not give out my phone number."

Now, we're not talking a fortune here, but it IS several hundred dollars. I'm going to email him back and try to work things out -- I would like to have the guitar, and I'm sure he'd like to have the money -- but I really don't want to send a 3rd party money order "blind" to someone who won't give me his phone number. I have no others reason(s) to be suspicious, his emails aren't weird or anything, I'm just feeling reluctant on this one.

IF WE CAN'T WORK IT OUT... how should I approach this? Should I communicate directly with Ebay? Communicate with him and send a cc to Ebay? Send the money and hope for the best? Just blow off the deal and leave negative feedback? What do you think?

Thanks in advance,

Chris S.

Edit to add: He has a feedback rating of 90 with only 1 complaint, so obviously he's had a lot of satisfied customers.

October 8th, 2003, 04:44 PM	#1 (permalink)
Anonymous Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 0	Problem with Ebay seller -- any advice? Ebay is an odd enough cyber-land that I figured I might run across something like this eventually. But here's the 411: I recently won an auction on a guitar. I contacted the seller, everything seemed fine, but when he got back to me with a shipping price, he asked to have the payment (money order) made out to a different name. Well, okay, so maybe he owes someone some money or something. But after mentioning to him in two separate emails that I wanted his phone number before sending payment, he has now emailed me back and said, "I gave you all the important information. I do not give out my phone number." Now, we're not talking a fortune here, but it IS several hundred dollars. I'm going to email him back and try to work things out -- I would like to have the guitar, and I'm sure he'd like to have the money -- but I really don't want to send a 3rd party money order "blind" to someone who won't give me his phone number. I have no others reason(s) to be suspicious, his emails aren't weird or anything, I'm just feeling reluctant on this one. IF WE CAN'T WORK IT OUT... how should I approach this? Should I communicate directly with Ebay? Communicate with him and send a cc to Ebay? Send the money and hope for the best? Just blow off the deal and leave negative feedback? What do you think? Thanks in advance, Chris S. Edit to add: He has a feedback rating of 90 with only 1 complaint, so obviously he's had a lot of satisfied customers.