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Just found a way around getting someone’s contact details on eBay. A seller sold some TIG welders but I missed out bidding on them … so  I messaged him and asked if he had any more to sell. He told me he has a really nice AC/DC pulsed one to sell me but eBay blocked us sharing contact details. So I took a screen shot of my phone number and bunged it  in DropBox, then I linked to it and included the link in my reply to the seller and it went through fine  ;D.
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Re: Just found a way around getting someone’s contact details on eBay
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2021, 11:32:11 AM »
Nice work ash, I see someone on ebay photoshop there number on a reg plate, so they could sell other stuff , I have found if you bid on something ebay , they let you exchange details

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Re: Just found a way around getting someone’s contact details on eBay
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2021, 12:45:21 PM »
Nice work ash, I see someone on ebay photoshop there number on a reg plate, so they could sell other stuff , I have found if you bid on something ebay , they let you exchange details

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That's right Pete but this was about an item the guy had never even listed.  If you try to include a .jpeg picture in the reply itself and it's not about a listed item or one you have bought they can pick it up and block you.
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Re: Just found a way around getting someone’s contact details on eBay
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2021, 12:54:22 PM »
I came up against this problem, so I told the guy what to Google to find my business website, which has all my contact info, it worked a treat.
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Re: Just found a way around getting someone’s contact details on eBay
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2021, 02:22:43 PM »
Their system is trained to recognise email addresses and phone numbers (even if you dress them up).

They can’t “read” an image though (as you have noticed).

Yet.

The tech is there and I’m in no doubt that ebay will pick it up when they believe they need it


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Re: Just found a way around getting someone’s contact details on eBay
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2021, 02:53:05 PM »
Their system is trained to recognise email addresses and phone numbers (even if you dress them up).

They can’t “read” an image though (as you have noticed).

Yet.

The tech is there and I’m in no doubt that ebay will pick it up when they believe they need it


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Are you sure Steve ..   I know somebody who has messaged with an attached image with a phone number on it  and it was picked up and blocked . The way I did it was with a Dropbox link to the image
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Re: Just found a way around getting someone’s contact details on eBay
« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2021, 05:47:52 PM »
I did it by writing a phone number in text rather than digits - I even split it up with an @!
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