I am interested in buying an old car. I clicked the contact seller button to ask the seller some specific questions about the car. EBay have pre filled in the contact form with my full name, postcode, phone number and personal email address. It is mandatory apparently. They won’t allow the email to go unless I accept giving my private details to the seller. I protect my personal details with a passion. I can’t see the relevance of making it mandatory to give my personal information to a person u...

As far as i know there are 3 ways to list a vehicle,auction,buy it now or as a classified ad. The last one requires you to send the info requested as you have found out. I too never liked this so i would either contact seller through another of their "non classified" listings or via "contact member" from their feedback page,top right (then choose "this is not about an item"). You cannot exchange contact details via that route but many classified ad's have the sellers phone number...

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Concern that my private details are given to a seller, even if I don’t buy the item! | Payments | eBay UK