EBay gives buyers phone numbers to the sellers ? WTF..

[sarettah]

Ok, heres the story, it is from a private board so I can't reference the url here but...

Buyer makes her bid wins the auction.

Sends seller an email asking a question, seller does not reply.
Buyer sends another email and another and another, etc. No reply.

Finally, to get his attention, buyer makes a "neutral" feedback comment on the seller.

Next thing she knows, seller is on the phone bitching her out about the comment and wants her to take it down etc. When she asks the seller how he got her phone number he says he asked EBay and they gave it to him.

Now, I would have thought that he actually got it by doing some backtracking but further on in the thread another seller comes in ands says that she has often had to get a buyers phone number from Ebay when spam blockers and such are stopping the emails from going through.

Does anyone know if this is a standard policy with EBay ?? Cause if it is it sounds like a bad one. Sounds to me like if a buyer gave a seller negative feedback or such then Ebay is giving the seller the tools to harass the buyer.