peiklk
|
posted on July 15, 2001 06:54:06 PM
Just had an auction close tonight. I sent my WBN to them, but when I just checked, he'd not responded to my email, but sent an email from a separate address.
He also asked for me to ship the item to him overnight (not an available shipping option for me, but if he pays for it, I will).
He's got a 3 rating -- all good, no negs or neutrals (means nothing really, could be another account).
I sent him a reply asking him to send me an email from that account OR change his ebay email to that email address. Heard nothing back.
As this was a last minute snipe job, I guess I'm a little worried that the second-place bidder is actually the one contacting me to try and get the item... I know it's a little paranoid -- but that's how it goes.
Any thing else to watch for in this case?
|
mrpotatoheadd
|
posted on July 15, 2001 06:59:52 PM
I sent him a reply asking him to send me an email from that account
I can't speak for your buyer, but I have 2 email addresses that go to the same inbox ("[email protected]" and "[email protected]", for example), but all email goes out as from the "[email protected]" account- it is not possible for me to send email showing the origin as "[email protected]".
|
peiklk
|
posted on July 15, 2001 07:06:15 PM
Well, that is a possibility -- then he can update his ebay to reflect a proper contact email address.
Also, I doubt this is the case as he said "Please use this email address for any future correspondence." If both emails went to the same place, this wouldn't be an issue.
AW doesn't let me alter the email address for the winner -- it only lets me use the one registered on ebay.
|
mrpotatoheadd
|
posted on July 15, 2001 07:11:10 PM
...update his ebay to reflect a proper contact email address.
If I give you an email address that, when you use it, delivers your email to me, is that not a proper address? 
...he said "Please use this email address for any future correspondence."
Well, that would be a different story, then.
|
peiklk
|
posted on July 15, 2001 07:15:12 PM
Right -- the deal is that he has not replied to ANY email sent to the ebay email address. If I sent him something and he replied (even if it showed as another address), then I'd be satisfied.
|
mrpotatoheadd
|
posted on July 15, 2001 07:18:07 PM
The only other thought would be that he's sending email from his work. I did that for a while myself, but too many people didn't seem to like that I was using an address different from the eBay one, so I quit.
edited to add...
Quit sending email from work, not quit my job. 
[ edited by mrpotatoheadd on Jul 15, 2001 07:19 PM ]
|
RichieRich
|
posted on July 15, 2001 07:49:46 PM
I have had a similar deal go on several times. I sent one email to both addresses and wrote something like XXXX requested I send all info to this XXXX address. If this is not correct you will need to reply at immediately. I put the auction # & title in the subject.
If the other email is not the same guy then he should respond saying - Hey I won that not him. Right?
|
iluvladybugs
|
posted on July 15, 2001 08:44:04 PM
I had to take my computer in for upgrading last year. I had to do ebay from the library, or a friends house. I can't get my isp email from any other computer except mine, so I had to use hotmail.
Just another idea of what might be the reason for the other email address.
|
wbbell
|
posted on July 15, 2001 09:02:48 PM
I very frequently encounter users who have an incorrect email address in eBay. I always send these people the link to change their email address. Of maybe 20 times I've sent this out, none have changed it. They just don't care.
Insisting they update their email before you deal with them is probably a little impractical. If I was to insist this for my types of buyers, I would be 99% sure they'd just blow me off and not pay.
|
gordons32
|
posted on July 15, 2001 09:13:45 PM
I use an email that is fowarded to me from a web site as a seperate POP3 but I can not send from there. The reason I do that is because Verizon has had problems with email and I do not want to miss any ebay emails.
|
peiklk
|
posted on July 15, 2001 09:16:22 PM
They don't need to update their email. Just offer some proof that they are the winner.
Basically, I have an unsolicited email from someone claiming to be the winner.
|
victoria
|
posted on July 15, 2001 09:17:00 PM
I use Yahoo when I'm away from home.
I don't tell anyone the real reason that I can send e-mail from myrealname@myISP. I'm paranoid that my home may be broken into because my buyer/seller actually lived close enough to go to my home while I'm gone.
|
gordons32
|
posted on July 15, 2001 09:20:40 PM
You can always ask him to copy and paste the email that you sent in his response to you. That way you know that he received the email that you sent.
|
peiklk
|
posted on July 15, 2001 10:03:39 PM
Good news. Somehow he managed to reply from his ebay email -- so all my worrying was for naught.
Supposed to send payment tonight for USPS overnight shipping.
Thanks for all your help!!!
|
barrelracer
|
posted on July 16, 2001 09:21:55 AM
<<Send payment for USPS overnight shipping>>
Is payment by credit card? Is this international?
I am just asking because you have 2 warning signs here for credit card fraud. Different email addys (respond to this address only) and request for rush overnite shipment.
Each by themself is no big thing, but if this is a credit card transaction for a "large" amount...
~Not barrelracer on ebay, don't pick on them!~
|
peiklk
|
posted on July 16, 2001 09:53:04 AM
Yes, it was a credit card payment via PayPal. However, he DID respond to me from the winning address.
|
Microbes
|
posted on July 16, 2001 05:23:16 PM
"[email protected]", for example), but all email goes out as from the "[email protected]" account- it is not possible for me to send email showing the origin as "[email protected]
Want to bet? If you are running outlook express, it takes about 20 seconds to make the secondary address onto the primary address. I don't know of a mailer in use that will let you recieve emails from more than one address that won't also let you send them out that way to, although you do have to make whichever one you want to send out the "primary" address.
Who Need's a stink'n Sig. File?
|
