[cashflyer]

A mini-rant, or a PSA...

Earlier today, I saw a vehicle on ebay motors with a "make offer" button.
I put in a lowball price.
I expected to get a message back through the ebay system that said the offer was unacceptable.

Instead, about 20 minutes after putting in the offer, I received a phone call from the seller. He asked for me by name, and asked if I had put in an offer on a vehicle. I said 'yes' and asked him how he got my personal contact info. He said, "ebay sends the info to me because I am the seller". He then gave me "what for" regarding the lowball offer.


So, I got on the phone to ebay. They deny giving him the info.
I asked for a supervisor.
The supervisor told me that info is only exchanged after a sale. Well, there was no sale. Try again. He transferred me to another supervisor who could "better assist" me.

Supervisor #2 told me that I would have received a message through ebay asking permission to disclose the info to the seller. Nope... that didn't happen either.

From there we just kept going in circles until I gave up and said something about his mother and field animals.

Here's the thing... my ebay user name is not my name. Not even close. And the phone number on my ebay account is a private backline in my office. The only calls coming to that are wrong numbers, or people I have personally given the number to. It would not be something that a car dealership in another state would have.


So just know that your ebay registration information is absolutely up for grabs. No matter what the ebay policies state, or what their minions say.