Hi inna,
Yeah, although I have had good experiences with all but one AudioMart seller, it is true that they expose your email address to the other party when you contact them. They do warn you before contacting a seller that has no feedback.
Back before Christmas I wanted to buy my elderly Dad a vintage setup as a gift and saw a Kenwood tuner that I knew was good offered by an AudioMart seller (with no feedback as it turned out), so I contacted him, ignoring the warning about him being a "no feedback" seller. Turned out that this guy was a certified nutcase. I simply asked him what the total price of the tuner was including shipping (as I was ready to push the button on the purchase) and he responded with the most hateful rhetoric and threats, of course accusing me of lowballing! All I asked was what the shipping charge would be. He continued to send me threatening emails (directly to my personal email account) for over a week (stuff like that he hoped my father died a horrible death and all manner of slurs about people from Texas, etc.). When I contacted AudioMart about it, forwarding all of his messages to the moderators (they can’t see them since they are sent to your email account), they seemed ambivalent about it at first. But, as they corresponded directly with him, they quickly realized the extent of the problem with this seller and barred him from the site. However the threats and insults continued (actually worsened) after that until he grew bored with it (I did not reply). Since he had my email address, there was nothing AudioMart nor I could do about it.
I had no idea that the seller would get access to my personal email account when I clicked on the "contact seller" tab.
This in no way disparages the 99.9% of great sellers on AudioMart, just a warning to exercise care when contacting AudioMart sellers with no feedback (most of which I am sure are great people too). You just never know.
Dave
Yeah, although I have had good experiences with all but one AudioMart seller, it is true that they expose your email address to the other party when you contact them. They do warn you before contacting a seller that has no feedback.
Back before Christmas I wanted to buy my elderly Dad a vintage setup as a gift and saw a Kenwood tuner that I knew was good offered by an AudioMart seller (with no feedback as it turned out), so I contacted him, ignoring the warning about him being a "no feedback" seller. Turned out that this guy was a certified nutcase. I simply asked him what the total price of the tuner was including shipping (as I was ready to push the button on the purchase) and he responded with the most hateful rhetoric and threats, of course accusing me of lowballing! All I asked was what the shipping charge would be. He continued to send me threatening emails (directly to my personal email account) for over a week (stuff like that he hoped my father died a horrible death and all manner of slurs about people from Texas, etc.). When I contacted AudioMart about it, forwarding all of his messages to the moderators (they can’t see them since they are sent to your email account), they seemed ambivalent about it at first. But, as they corresponded directly with him, they quickly realized the extent of the problem with this seller and barred him from the site. However the threats and insults continued (actually worsened) after that until he grew bored with it (I did not reply). Since he had my email address, there was nothing AudioMart nor I could do about it.
I had no idea that the seller would get access to my personal email account when I clicked on the "contact seller" tab.
This in no way disparages the 99.9% of great sellers on AudioMart, just a warning to exercise care when contacting AudioMart sellers with no feedback (most of which I am sure are great people too). You just never know.
Dave