eBay'er won an auction, calls my house phone asking if I shipped it...

NFS4

No Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
72,636
46
91
Caught me off guard, I don't even know my home phone number:laugh: (4 guys living here in this house, we all have cell phones and rarely use the land line).

Anyway, he paid for the item on Monday. I printed up a USPS label from USPS's online shipping site on Monday night, and put in the mail yesterday. He received an email from me on Monday night saying that I would ship on Tuesday. He responded saying thanks. He should have received an automated email from USPS giving him his tracking number (he acknowledged this on the phone). Now, as far as I know:

(1) USPS doesn't send my mailing address when I print a shipping label from their website (but I think it does if you use USPS through PayPal which I didn't use in this case) and it sends them an email confirmation with tracking info.

(2) AFAIK, my address isn't listed during checkout for eBay b/c all of my payments are through PayPal.

(3) My cell phone number is listed with my eBay contact information

(4) He didn't do an eBay user information lookup on me b/c I didn't get a matching email saying that an inquiry had been posted...




Interesting ;)
 

NFS4

No Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
72,636
46
91
He's a newbie eBay'er with a feedback of 2 and I think he was alarmed b/c it's Wednesday and it still says this for the tracking info:
The U.S. Postal Service was electronically notified by the shipper or shipping partner on March 29, 2005 to expect your package for mailing. Information, if available, is updated every evening. Please check again later.

Even so, I would have thought he would have given a little bit more time before trying to stalk me :D
 

JoeKing

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
10,641
1
81
Originally posted by: Jfrag Teh Foul
Originally posted by: ATLien247
Originally posted by: KLin
Text

Probably used that site. :p

Damn... That's the first site of its kind that has found something on me...

IT HAS BEGUN!!! :|

Same here. :|
woohoo! Not me! yay for using old cellphone numbers and old college addresses.

I'm sorta suprised though considering the amound of "free" magazine subs I've signed up for.
 

iamme

Lifer
Jul 21, 2001
21,058
3
0
Originally posted by: NFS4
He's a newbie eBay'er with a feedback of 2

i was going to guess he was a paranoid eBay n00b. i remember my first transaction on eBay...i was so worried about getting ripped off :p
 

NFS4

No Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
72,636
46
91
**Edit** I put our old roommate's name in that Zaba search (his name is still on the phone bill) and it brought up our address and phone number. But still, nothing for me...
 

Baked

Lifer
Dec 28, 2004
36,052
17
81
It's a good thing my last name's so common and there are at least 10K people in the city w/ my name. God damn ebay noob stalker.
 

shilala

Lifer
Oct 5, 2004
11,437
1
76
It's not all that difficult to find a phone number. He was just itchy or excited.
When I paypal someone from an ebay deal, I ask them to let me know they received payment. It worries me when I buy something at that retard's retreat and don't hear anything. If I don't see anything in a week and don't get a response to emails, I find them and call them. They usually shyt themselves.
If I sell anything to anyone I give them my phone number. I want them to call me if there's a problem. Hell, I want them to call me if they have any need to at all.
It keeps people happy.
 

mcvickj

Diamond Member
Dec 13, 2001
4,602
0
76
Originally posted by: NFS4
He's a newbie eBay'er with a feedback of 2 and I think he was alarmed b/c it's Wednesday and it still says this for the tracking info:
The U.S. Postal Service was electronically notified by the shipper or shipping partner on March 29, 2005 to expect your package for mailing. Information, if available, is updated every evening. Please check again later.

Even so, I would have thought he would have given a little bit more time before trying to stalk me :D

USPS tracking sucks. I've received packages multiple times with that same message.
 

NFS4

No Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
72,636
46
91
Originally posted by: mcvickj
Originally posted by: NFS4
He's a newbie eBay'er with a feedback of 2 and I think he was alarmed b/c it's Wednesday and it still says this for the tracking info:
The U.S. Postal Service was electronically notified by the shipper or shipping partner on March 29, 2005 to expect your package for mailing. Information, if available, is updated every evening. Please check again later.

Even so, I would have thought he would have given a little bit more time before trying to stalk me :D

USPS tracking sucks. I've received packages multiple times with that same message.

Yeah, it sucks, but USPS Priority Mail Flat Rate boxes are the best thing EVAR!!! :D