Anybody else get this ebay email?

[blazingbob]

We are writing to inform you that we recently ended all listings for seller deffpod on eBay. The sellers privileges to trade on eBay have been temporarily suspended while we investigate this matter further. (The current account status can be viewed next to the user ID of the seller on the eBay site.).

 

Our records indicate that you were a participating bidder or buyer in this sellers listing. You will need to use your own personal judgment in deciding whether to complete this transaction.

 

As described in our User Agreement, eBay is only a venue, and we cannot guarantee that sellers will complete transactions nor can we guarantee the delivery or quality of bought items. As a basic principle, a buyer should know with whom he or she is dealing before sending a payment to a seller.

 

Depending on the circumstances, you might decide to delay payment to a seller until completely confident that the transaction will be completed safely.. If you decide to delay payment but already paid by personal check, you may wish to contact your bank to discuss whether it would be possible to stop payment on the check. If you paid with a credit card, you may wish to contact your credit card companys security department to discuss this payment many companies provide protection in certain circumstances. If you paid by money order, you may want to contact that money order company for information on how to stop payment.

 

Please note that the ending of the listings for this seller is a precautionary measure. The grounds for this suspension may be the result of a mistake or misunderstanding.

 

Some countries have laws that might prevent you from retracting payment by check or otherwise; please inform yourself of applicable laws before acting.

 

There are many tips on how to protect yourself with any Internet transaction on our help page located at:

 

http://pages.ebay.com/help/buyerguide/bidding-tips.html

 

If you have any questions, please reply directly to this email.

 

Regards,

Customer Support (Trust and Safety Department)

 

[drice6900]

Yep. Immediately deleted as well.

[OldGuy]

Seems a little to proactive for Ebay to be sending. I don't remember them ever taking such an interest in the welfare of bidders. Could be someone trying to sabotage the seller?

[14 of spades]

no. it's likely real.

 

check out the seller's ID - and you'll see that it was NARU'd.

 

would be very bad press for them if they NARU'd an account - without telling the buyers of "pending items". if a seller became NARU'd, he would have no "incentive" to actually send the item upon receiving payment - that would make a lot of paying eBayers very unhappy...

[Joanna]

I got one of those once. I bought some office supplies from a seller who got NARU'd soon after. I'd already sent payment, and although really late, the items did come.

[blazingbob]

Thanks for the emails, with all of the Phony emails coming lately I'm glad to see that this one might have been real. The only problem with this email was that I didn't bid on any of his auctions.

 

 

[Aces]

a)Did you bid on his auctions in the recent past?

b)Maybe he had more than one account and you bid on one of those.