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

[voodooman]

Originally Posted by sarettah

I went and looked at Ebays privacy policy and it looks like they feel free to give the phone number out. It pretty much states that the seller has access to the buyers contact information which makes some sense. I mean the seller is going to have to have the address to ship to and such.

But it is something that could be misused pretty fucking easy.

I could understand if someone bought something and didnt pay for it, actually, that still would not be grounds to give some stranger a phone number, but it would make more sense than if I called up Ebay and asked for someones phone number because someone gave me a bad rating, and them giving the number to me.
I think as big as Ebay is, they should have an in house mediation service to deal with these matters.