help buying on ebay

I would be happy to do this for you. E-mail me and we can "talk" about it further. It's the least I can do to repay you for hosting GeoBear :-). Also, I don't know what the others think, but I don't feel it is rude or presumptious of you to ask this. We all know you and I, for one, know you are trustworthy :-))). CiaoMeow >^;;^<

I agree with TM, Claudia. You're 'one of us'.

Sunny I love buying on ebay

Thank you Sunny!

Hi Claudia,

The reason you can't contact the seller easily is because eBay does everything possible to keep buyers and sellers apart until they've actually completed a transaction.

Otherwise, you might engage in a transaction off the site, which would result in no dinero for eBay. Of course, the fact that the majority of buyers might have legitimate questions, and want to ask them BEFORE they make a purchase, is apparently lost on them, and they've turned the process into a scavenger hunt for buyers trying to find the right page. You are not the first person to ask this question. I've seen it on numerous other forums, multiple subjects, but lost buyers looking for something that should (and used to be) easily accessible.

When you go to the Contact Seller page, click on Other. It will pop up with a statement saying "we couldn't find an answer for you." It might list some answers if they seller set up those parameters. Just keep clicking through. Hit the Continue button, and, after 3 unnecessary clicks -not to mention coming here to ask the question-, you finally get to a message page where you can send an email to the buyer via eBay's messaging service. Oh, no. No way you're getting that email address. ;-)

Don't forget the verification code, which is not visible when you're typing your message (you need to scroll down).

Best regards,

-Michele in NYC

oops, my apologies. I see they've blocked buyers outside the US and that's why you couldn't get in.

But thanks for letting me rant. LOL!