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Contacting a buyer or bidder

When you’re selling on eBay, you might sometimes need to get in touch with a buyer. Depending on whether they’ve already purchased an item from you, or have just bid on one of your listings, you’ll be able to contact them in slightly different ways.

How to contact someone who bought an item from you

Once someone's bought an item from you, you can contact them directly from your Sold items - opens in new window or tab page.

You can also contact the buyer using their Buyer Alias Email Address which you can find in the View order details page.

How to contact a bidder who hasn't yet won your auction

If you need to get in touch with a bidder while an auction's still under way, we won't be able to give you their contact details, but you can send them a message.

How to contact a buyer through Email

For privacy reasons, eBay is no longer displaying personal email addresses. However, you can still contact the buyer through email using their "Buyer Alias Email Address" which you can find in the View order details page.

This email alias, ending in @members.ebay.com, is unique to your communications with this buyer. You can also give email aliases to shipping carriers, so that they can securely share shipping updates with the buyer.

Messages sent using eBay alias addresses go through our secure servers before reaching a member's registered email address and their eBay Messages. eBay email alias addresses support PDF, DOC, TXT, JPG, GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, and TIFF attachments up to a maximum size of 10 MB.

For more information see our Member-to-member contact policy.

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