posted on April 15, 2001 11:34:45 PM new
What do you do when the winner has a bad email address? No way to contact them, they always come back. What a waste of my time!
posted on April 16, 2001 04:31:46 AM new
I've had about 5 of these 'dead end' email addresses in the past month. 2 from Yahoo, 2 from Hotmail and 1 from Juno.
Here is what I've done. The first time their email bounces back I write them again. The 2 from Yahoo came back as email account closed or unknown so I was pretty sure they were deadbeats.
I will do this once each day for 3 days. A few I have just had a bad feeling about(when their email provider says they are dead on arrival) and went ahead and contacted the second bidder within 24 hours and offered it to them - most took the items.
Of the 5, not one ever responded or made any effort to contact me within a week of the auction's end so I just went ahead, on the 7th day, and filed a NPB alert and finally requested my fees back from ebay on the 17th day. I also neg the bidder on the 17th day.
As of today, all 5 have been suspended from ebay. 2 I didn't get to neg because they were already suspended by the 10th day.
I just don't mess with them any more. I have better things to do than play games with email. I figure if you bid on items and can't manage to have a functioning email account - somewhere -you don't need to be on ebay.
posted on April 16, 2001 05:38:11 AM new
good morning..i had one this morning when i turned my computer on. usually my server wont go through to their server for some unknown reason..i am on earthlink..when that happens i go up to the auction and hit the "send this auction to a freind" link. that usually works..my wife has a yahoo email address..i have used that also..i have about 5 deadbeats up in my feedback file that haven"t paid for a month or so..i sent them a notice yesterday and 2 came back stating there is no such email address anymre so i"m probably screwed there..oh well..good ole ebay.
posted on April 16, 2001 06:03:21 AM new
I had one bidder whose email "bounced" every time (USER UNKNOWN) but for some strange reason he got them anyway. Go figure that one out!
