I know its probably a silly question...but in this day and age, you can't ever be too careful with personal info...I have thought about signing up, but not if this isn't addressed...
2006-11-12 03:24:37 · 7 answers · asked by Terry C. 7 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Yes. If you give your physical address to eBay and either the buyer or seller wants it they can get it. They simply have to click on get contact details. And your address and phone number are emailed to them. If this happens you will also receive an email with their information and letting you know that someone has requested your information. The information is only given out to people in which you have a sale associated with. After about 90 days(or so) after the auction is removed from the website they can no longer request your information. But long story short: YES.
2006-11-12 04:11:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, All the other people that have commented have quoted ebay Policy. Its' too bad when Ebay does not follow their own Policy. My Full name, City and State I live in, and home phone Number were given to a person I had no tranaction with other than I placed a bid and later let a second chance offer expire. This person knew the type of collectables I was buying off ebay, lived within a 45 minute drive from my house, never contacted me and had no known reason to request contact infomation from Ebay. Ebay could not answer why the person needed the infomation or why they provided it. They simply said they don't know why. My house was broken into within 3 days of them providing this infomation which a 3 year old could have used to obtain my residential address. DO NOT TRUST EBAY. THEY DO NOT HAVE TO BE HACKED THEY FREELY GIVE OUT YOUR CONTACT INFOMATION WITHOUT QUESTIONING WHY THE PERSON REQUESTING IT NEEDS IT! I have just provided this info to the police, but I am not holding my Breath.
2014-02-27 09:49:37 · answer #2 · answered by SubicBaySide 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your address is only given if your the purchaser to a product. Not your phone number.
However, if your the buyer and you fail to pay, the seller can request through ebay your information such as your name and phone number to contact you to complete the contractual agreement. But, you are also emailed the information of the person who requested your information. You must also be the winning bidder.
Ive been doing Ebay for a long time and never had any problems.
2006-11-16 01:49:19 · answer #3 · answered by Michael P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your phone number IS available to anyone who has a transaction with you. All the other party has to do is use the request seller information online form on ebay. Then you get an email from ebay informing you of the request. You have no choice in the matter, your information is automatically given to the requester. This is why I use a cell phone number for my ebay account information, also a post office box number rather than my home address.
2006-11-12 10:32:48 · answer #4 · answered by Andastra 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you buy on ebay you need to provide a postal address so that your purchases can be sent to you by the seller obviously. However you have various payment options...sending the seller a cheque, sending money orders..sending cash (never advisable) or paying via paypal (which is part of e-bay) most seller prefer to be paid via paypal and I have always found this to the the safest, fastest way to pay. The seller will not receive any of your personal details, phone numbers, addresses, apart from the postal address you provide.
The same applies if you are the seller...you receive the buyers address to post items to but none of their bank/personal details apart from confirmation that their payment has gone into your bank from paypal.
The purchaser and seller communicate via ebay messages.
paypal works like paying via a debit card...you sign up with them, tell them how much you want taking out of your account and who you want to pay and they debit your account accordingly....
hope this helps....happy e-baying though word of advise...always check the feedback of a seller before buying from them...if it´s not good or looks dodgy don´t do it....as with anything like this..there is always the element of risk that you may pay for an item but not receive it although I think that generally the majority of e-bay users are honest and reliable.
Lisa is mistaken.....your phone number is not available to other ebay users..and your address is only available to buyer/seller once you have made a purchase/sale.
2006-11-12 03:38:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-23 17:10:59 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This info is given when the bid is accepted.
2006-11-12 03:28:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋