posted on April 13, 2001 07:57:31 PM
My boyfriend and I have a new server..Roadrunner. I still use AOL, but my boyfriend changed his email address with ebay. Tonight I went to look at his sales..via bookmark....and it came up that his ID was not a registered user..with the same bookmark I have used for 3 years. The only way I could find his selling page was to do a search on an item he is selling. Now..if I couldn't find his page...how is anyone else supposed to find him????
The other day, I was looking for a seller I used to deal with, and her ID came up as "Not a Registered User". I thought maybe she stopped selling, but now I'm not so sure.
Has anyone else changed their email address?? Has anyone else had this problem???
posted on April 14, 2001 12:10:15 AM
I had that problem with a seller I've had bookmarked for a long time. Her eBay id used to be her email address. Now it's a nickname, so it didn't show up. I happened to stumble upon her new name searching for the type of stuff she sells.
posted on April 14, 2001 03:52:21 PM
I changed my email address on Ebay for 2 weeks because the email forwarding service I use was having problems. After things got back to normal I changed it back again. However, my email address is different than my userid and my userid never changed.
Never had a problem getting into Ebay, didn't affect bidding on my auctions, didn't affect bookmarks, didn't affect searches.
The only minor irritant was the fact that I had to enter my credit card details because Ebay regards my 'paid for' forwarding service (auction.com) to be 'free email' akin to hotmail, yahoo etc. That aspect bugged me for two reasons, first of all, Ebay had been perfectly happy with the auction.com email address the first time around, it was only when I tried to change it back from my isp address to 'auction.com' that credit card details were requested.
It occurred to me that people who don't have or won't use a credit card on Ebay could encounter problems if their email address changed from (for example) one hotmail address to another. After years of using a hotmail address with no problem and paying their fees by mail they would suddenly need to stump up credit card details, despite the fact that the hotmail address was ok before and they'd never use the credit card to pay their fees anyway.
Hippy wannabe 
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