Just drop it cold turkey, or simply phase it out of your life.
If it is the teacher’s edition of a school book, that’s a longstanding policy. Otherwise, ???.
What is the ‘device’?................................
Chances are it is on line.
Did you try sending your email in non email form?
ie. bill -at- microsoft -dot- com
myemail at y#hoo d0t c.om
or
give the seller your phone # such as:
txt me at:
123?
456?
7890?
And then text them your email.
EBay does not want the seller to have your email address, or you to have the seller’s email address, because they want to prevent direct sales that don’t go through eBay. It is a purely automated function.
Sounds like copyright concerns.
Or you are on big tech’s ban list.
ebay doesn’t want sellers to communicate in any way other than through their messaging system. It’s the same way on amazon. Like many other rules and procedures, it came about because sellers were abusing the privilege of free communication (for example, a potential buyer would ask a question of a seller and the seller would tell the prospect he’d sell it to him directly).
In any case, if the seller is willing, he can photograph pages of the manual you’re interested in and attach those to the ebay emails.
You may list an item, and then arrange to sell it "off eBay." Ergo, the seller would only pay the minimal listing fee and eBay wouldn't get their cut from the sale. In order to establish communication, you have to be creative.
Intentionally distort the spelling of your email address and put each character on a new line, but make the meaning obvious:
Joe @ gmail.com becomes:
Juliet
Oscar
Echo
atttt
Golf
Mike
Alpha
India
Lima
.
Khom
“All your ebay communications are belonging to us.”
Create another account with your e-mail address as the user name.
Well...seller makes a second listing for the item, local pickup only. Provides address. Instead of local pickup you look up his address, phone him and get an email addy.
Or...seller provides an image of his addy or other info. But if you try that kind of work-around and they are monitoring, you get flagged, flogged, banned or whatever they do now.
There’s always Facebook marketplace, etsy, and other venues.
FB marketplace is free. Ebay shows you where, approximately, a seller is located. Go to FB marketplace and search his area, after telling him what you are going to do. He can then just list it there. Nobody gives a rip what you message each other.
Personally I don’t see why anyone would sell on ebay. You get shafted regularly. Fees are ridiculous. Paypal is something unprintable.
Ebay bots detect anything that looks like an email address, so be creative. Spell things out or use descriptive words. I haven’t tried sending an image containing text information but it would take more effort for them to detect that.
Say you take a photo of the item in question to attach to an eBay message and your email address happens to be visible in the background? Plausible deniability.
There’s this thing called the “Internet” where you can actually search for things like documents.
eBay now requires your SS #, date of birth and bank account info to sell stuff. i sell local off eBay whenever possible.
"Could you please provide the manual in a standardized format such as Adobe. Send it to "Johndoe12" at hotmail.
Seller could put a link to it like so; mywebsite dot com/devicemanual.pdf
I’m on ebay. If you give me the item number, I’ll try to get in touch with the seller. They won’t have their eye on me like they do you now.
Just drop it cold turkey, or simply phase it out of your life.