Is it OK to give out my PayPal email address?
It’s perfectly safe to give them your email address – as long as they don’t know your password – but usually what happens after that, is if it is a scammer, you start receiving fake emails trying to get you to believe money is in your account…… when it really was never sent at all.
Should I send PayPal address or eBay address?
eBay sellers are required by eBay to send to the shipping address recorded in the eBay transaction details. PayPal requires sellers to send to the shipping address recorded in the PayPal transaction details.
Is it safe to give email address on eBay?
In the majority of cases, we don’t share buyers’ personal email addresses. We replace email addresses with aliases for buyers and sellers to hide personal contact information. When you communicate, your email appears like [email protected] and is sent through our secure platform.
Do buyers need your PayPal email?
The email address you use with paypal identifies your paypal account and is all someone needs to pay you.
Is it safe to give someone your PayPal link?
PayPal certainly believes it’s safe to transmit money on its platform. “Yes, we keep all your information safe,” the company states on its web site. “When you send a payment using PayPal, the recipient won’t receive sensitive financial information like your credit card or bank account number.
Do I need to put my address on eBay?
Your primary shipping address is the default we’ll provide to sellers when you buy an item. However, you can always select a different address, or add a new one, during checkout.
Can billing and shipping address be different on eBay?
Changing your shipping details at checkout When you’re buying an item, you’ll confirm the shipping method and address at checkout. If it’s incorrect, or if you want the item sent to a different address, select Change. You can then edit the address, select a different address, or add a new address.
Do eBay sellers see your email address?
The auction website eBay hides the email address of buyers and sellers to increase privacy. By default, you can see the eBay username of other users, but not their private email address. If you are actively involved in a transaction with a buyer, however, you can request a copy of their contact information.
What happens if I give someone my email address?
If hackers have your email address, they can use it to steal other sensitive information. That’s because your email often contains your name, the year you were born, or even your full birthdate. These details can be used to guess your passwords and answer security questions.
Can your PayPal account be scammed?
The most common ways PayPal users are cheated out of their money through spam, phishing, and various kinds of fraud on the platform. You know how to use PayPal safely, but every day, scammers come up with new tricks to gain access to users’ accounts and empty their pockets digitally.
Can eBay buyers see my PayPal address?
Oh yes that is correct. The address must be displayed on the eBay page.
Why can’t I send an email to a buyer on eBay?
There is a reason eBay disallows members to include emails in posts, messages, listings. eBay wants ALL communication to go through resolution center and are (eBay, that is) deathly afraid of transactions from which they collect no fees. The seller asked me to provide my email address in order to send me tbe invoice via paypal?!
Why does the seller need my email address to pay?
There is no reason for the seller to need your email address. Ebay will automatically send you an invoice and all you need to do is click on the pay now button. I don’t see any recent purchases on your account.
What does “resend it to [email] address” mean on eBay?
We reported this just a few days ago and sellers being suspended for asking buyers to “Resend it to the [email] address in the description of the item”. eBay are translating this to be an abuse of their ‘Offers to buy or sell outside of eBay’ policy.
Should I go through eBay buyer protection?
Do NOT go through with it. The seller is trying to sell to you directly so they don’t have to pay fees to eBay and probably because they don’t want you to have Buyer Protection.