posted on October 3, 2002 12:45:07 PM new
I have sold an item on Yahoo Auction. The bidder sent me two e-mails as soon as the auction ended wanting to know the shipping, however, I was away from home & was unable to answer him immediately. I did e-mail him within two days of the auction close with the amount due. Now, he won't answer my e-mails. I need his phone number. How can I get this? Thanks for any help!
posted on October 3, 2002 04:28:29 PM new
You may be correct, however, I would like to phone him. Does anyone know how to get the contact info on a bidder at Yahoo?
posted on October 3, 2002 06:53:36 PM new
You cannot get that info. Yahoo keeps it private. E-mail again and if no response in a couple of days, file the non-paying bidder alert. That should get the buyer to comunicate. If not, give it 10 days and file the FVF and neg.
I must disagree with tooltimes (bids) in the quality of buyers being worse than ebay. I would say it is about the same, if not slightly better since Yahoo implemented listing fees. The majority of the deadbeats went to bidville. Time has proved it.
posted on October 3, 2002 07:26:22 PM new
In theory the Yahoo bidders should be much better because of the credit card verification for both sellers and buyers. I think the thing that makes it not so is that ebay has a three strikes and you're out policy for buyers if they fail to pay and three sellers post final NPBs against them.
If Yahoo would adopt that ebay policy it would probably surpass ebay in the quality of it's bidders. Until then it's a pay-if-you-want-to site.
posted on October 3, 2002 07:41:35 PM new
Thanks for all of the suggestions. The bidder has just e-mailed me that he will send a Paypal payment for the item. He had been out of town for a few days. All's well that ends well.
