first time I've gotten this message on ebay

[rum151man]

ive had messages blocked but never this

 

[rum151man]

anyone else ever get this?

 

[iconms]

Wow haven't seen that yet

 

[Bob Loblaw]

Was your message re: offsite sales?

 

[Keyser Soze]

Was it right?

I haven't received it yet but have only sent one such message over the past few weeks. I used to do it a lot more often

 

[Pine Tar]

I read back a few weeks that eBay, knows more, and more deals are ending off there site. They said they were going to charge you the finalization fee based on when you end it. It's seems they are now asking you if, in fact you did this off eBay. I can see people getting tossed if they end to many auctions in say a short period.

 

[jbhofmann]

Instead of putting your paypal addy as rumman151@gmail type it as rumman151 at gmail dot com

People have sent it to me that way.

 

[joey12508]

some one sent a offline offer to me today. i always just decline. was it you?

 

[shayscards79]

Instead of putting your paypal addy as rumman151@gmail type it as rumman151 at gmail dot com

People have sent it to me that way.

I've done my fair share of offline deals and that's what I usually do. Although I had one person send their email and had it blocked in the message. Never received that non delivery email from eBay though.

 

[ccouch (Chad)]

I have not seen that, but then I again I don't make offers for offline transactions or reply favorably to them when I get them. But I have heard of eBay monitoring communication for awhile for just this type of thing. I don't blame them a bit, frankly. There is no reason why they should idly stand by and let people conduct transactions using their platform without getting compensated for it.

 

[rum151man]

Was your message re: offsite sales?[/QUOTE
buyer offered $50 plus $15 shipping on an item so I sent a message stating

" I can do $75 total if you pay PP direct "

which ive done several times without this message

 

[rum151man]

Instead of putting your paypal addy as rumman151@gmail type it as rumman151 at gmail dot com

People have sent it to me that way.

didnt even put my pp address, didnt even get that far yet

 

[rum151man]

I read back a few weeks that eBay, knows more, and more deals are ending off there site. They said they were going to charge you the finalization fee based on when you end it. It's seems they are now asking you if, in fact you did this off eBay. I can see people getting tossed if they end to many auctions in say a short period.

my auction was a BIN OBO and it didnt end. I barely do auction style on my jackets

 

[rum151man]

I have not seen that, but then I again I don't make offers for offline transactions or reply favorably to them when I get them. But I have heard of eBay monitoring communication for awhile for just this type of thing. I don't blame them a bit, frankly. There is no reason why they should idly stand by and let people conduct transactions using their platform without getting compensated for it.

a lot of times I do this to meet middle ground with a buyers offer, sometimes they are not willing to pay what I need through ebay so I offer the lower price only if they pay me pp direct to save fees so it evens out. both buyer and seller happy but ebay is not....lol

 

[notjomommasclint]

I haven't gotten it but I prefer to keep transactions to eBay. Ill even send messages on big cards not to end early as I bid late and could increase their price

 

[Erich]

They must have installed some sort of software that can recognize certain words. I just completed an off Ebay deal with messages very similar to yours just last week.

 

[cmnkb8]

I saw a similar message once while trying to send a counter-offer on a fixed price listing to a potential buyer. I think the word "paypal" in my message is what caused a red flag. I removed the word paypal from my message and it went through.

 

[speedmasterp]

If someone has a BIN w/o best offer, and it's higher than I'm willing to pay I'll send a general message stating:

Hi, are you interested in moving this card for $X? I'm willing to pay by any method you're comfortable with".

Hopefully they can pick up on the idea that I'm willing to pay direct. But if they aren't comfortable with I feel like it doesn't sound like I'm specifically asking them to sell off eBay. Hopefully that would keep me protected.

 

[rum151man]

If someone has a BIN w/o best offer, and it's higher than I'm willing to pay I'll send a general message stating:

Hi, are you interested in moving this card for $X? I'm willing to pay by any method you're comfortable with".

Hopefully they can pick up on the idea that I'm willing to pay direct. But if they aren't comfortable with I feel like it doesn't sound like I'm specifically asking them to sell off eBay. Hopefully that would keep me protected.

I feel like a lot of peopel have no clue how to pay for something on ebay through paypal direct. I usually send this message to people when I receive an offer close to what im looking for. most of the time I get people saying theyre not comfortable doing off ebay, or how do we do that?

" thanks for the offer I would be willing to do $$$ delivered if you can pay pp direct. if you want to move forward send me your pp address and ill send you an invoice"

never ran into any problems until a few weeks ago some of my messages started getting blocked, and now today I received the one in this thread.