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# How To Contact Live Person EBay Representative Help Center 
Once upon a time, eBay offered email addresses for customer service, live chat, phone contacts, and webmail support. Over time, however, eBay has become difficult to contact.

## Is it still possible to contact eBay directly?
It is still possible to contact eBay and speak to a customer representative. Search for "contact eBay" and you will find a customer service phone number: By some accounts, the wait time for this number is typically three minutes. eBay also offers a fraud detection phone number, which is . The wait for this number is usually about seven minutes.

For technical support, eBay has online technical support and a response is usually received within 24 hours. For online customer or technical support, eBay users can contact online support.

## Contact methods that have disappeared
It's true that the channels that used to be available to get to eBay gradually got buried deeper and deeper into the eBay pages and were discontinued on the main US site (eBay.com). These include the following:

**Live Chat –** eBay, at one point, had a live chat system that was prominently featured on every eBay page. However, the links were later hidden in the help pages, and now eBay's live chat is no more.
Direct Email: It was also possible at one time to email eBay directly from your private email account using convenient addresses like "safeharbor@ebay.com" and get a response.
Unity on International Sites: Some international sites still have these links or options, but many don't. Although eBay handles most international customer support in the same facility as US customer support, agents who help international users typically state that they do not have access to US accounts on his system.

**Automated help options**
eBay recommends the interactive web system for customer service. To use it, click the "Customer Support" link at the top of any eBay page. Clicking will take you to the online customer support page. There you can select the "Contact eBay" tab and access an automated tool that sorts customer inquiries and provides links to other tools, or limited contact information based on information the customer provides.

Unfortunately, eBay has made it increasingly difficult to reach them quickly, trying to force buyers and sellers to rely more on self-help and their automated system, an automated system that naturally cannot provide targeted and immediate help. However, you can still contact a person on eBay if you are patient and willing to be a little flexible with the method of contact.

## Tips for trying to reach eBay directly
Basically, there are two realistic alternatives left to trying to reach eBay directly.

**By email, via a web form:** To contact eBay customer service directly, try the eBay web form accessible from the "Help" page. It will ask you to log in, but be careful. You may receive an error message if you are already logged in when you open the tool. So you may need to sign out and then sign in again while browsing the tool, but you should be offered a web form that goes to an email box within eBay's customer support department. Unfortunately, eBay has started ignoring or providing canned responses pointing to their automated tools in response to an email sent this way. That being said, it's worth a try.

**Over the phone:** If you're not a fan of customer support over the phone, you might have to bite the bullet and make a call anyway. While live chat links and email links used to be scattered throughout the automated system, now all options point to other tools or a link that provides a phone number and eBay pin. If you use them, you will be able to talk to a human about your problem after an indeterminate wait time.

If the automated system doesn't provide you with a "Have us call you" link for the issue you selected, simply revisit the Contact eBay tool and randomly select another issue; most of them now lead to a "Have us call you" link. , or you can access that option at the bottom of the page. 

## Alternatives to contacting eBay

For many issues, contacting eBay directly may not be your best option. The eBay community is strong, and in many cases you're more likely to get helpful answers by visiting the following:

**eBay Discussion Forums:** If your question is category or region specific, you'll likely get reasonable help or answers from people who tend to know more than eBay's own customer service representatives by posting on the eBay forums. eBay discussion.

**eBay Knowledge Base:** This also applies to the eBay Knowledge Base, formerly called the Answer Center, which is basically eBay's shadow customer service system, powered by the eBay community and some eBay employees. that appear and publish from time to time. The knowledge base is easy to use and in many cases more helpful than eBay customer support.

## How to contact eBay customer service?
eBay suggests that you review their help section before contacting them directly. The help center provides answers and solutions to the most frequently asked questions by customers and problems faced by buyers and sellers. The Help Center has articles that provide assistance with refunds and returns, as well as tracking and shipping purchases, sales, accounts, fees, and invoices. eBay has a detailed help center for sellers to deal with issues like feedback, debugging, or refunds for items they didn't receive, as well as policy updates.

If you can't find the information you need in the help center, please contact eBay customer service via email, phone, or social media.

## How do I contact eBay customer service for specific concerns?
**1.** Sign in to your eBay account. You will need to sign in to your account to ensure that you will be able to obtain an email address that you can use to connect to the correct department.

**2.** Select "Help & Contact" at the top of the screen. Then scroll down until you select "Call us."

**3.** Select the topic closest to yours ("Shop" or "Account" for example) and then choose the most specific topic on the next page.

**4.** Take note of the one-time access code you receive, then dial the number 866 that appears on your screen. You'll get the support you need from eBay.

## What is the reason eBay doesn't reveal their customer support phone number?
The short answer is easy money.

* eBay is home to 25 million sellers and 170 million users (both buyers and sellers).
* Imagine if just 0.1 percent of these customers required assistance from a live customer service representative simultaneously, that would be 170,000 simultaneous calls.
* Even if support reps could make 3 calls per hour and assume you'd want to wait up to 40 minutes for assistance, eBay would still need over 60,000 support reps.
* A call center being built to the size of a company with so many employees is a huge cost in terms of financial expenses and I am not talking about the amount of time it takes to set up this type of facility but the amount of training that is required, along with the complexity of the processes required to manage this, are equally incomprehensible.
* This is why the eBay Help Center is designed to provide you with pre-made answers to a variety of questions. And when it can't find the answer, it will refer users to the eBay community for help from other eBay sellers.
* The last option from eBay's perspective is to provide them with the number to contact their customer service department.

Let's go over the different ways you can get in touch with eBay customer support quickly. Many people feel uncomfortable contacting customer support for various reasons (for example, language barrier), so I'll also go over the messaging and chat options.

### What is eBay Customer Support Email?
To contact eBay customer service by email, go to eBay.com. Scroll to the bottom and select "Help & Contact" from the menu. You will then be directed to a support page. Scroll down the page and then click "Contact Us". Choose the area in which you need assistance and follow the instructions provided on the following pages. At the end of the process, you will be presented with the option "send us an email". Sign in to your account if you haven't already, fill out the required form, and then submit.

### How do I contact an eBay representative? ebay?
Please contact eBay customer service by phone number or for technical support please call. You can also contact eBay customer support via live chat or email via their Help page; however, these options are not always available.

### Why can't eBay provide the phone number?
Why is eBay hiding their customer service phone number? The answer is easy: money. ... Imagine if only 0.1 percent of customers needed assistance from an actual customer service representative simultaneously—that's 170,000 calls simultaneously.

## How can I have eBay contact me?
Do you need a conversation with someone? If you can't find the answer on one of our help pages, please visit Contact Us and select an issue that concerns you or ask a question. Select 'call' and we'll send you a phone number right away, as well as an access code.

### What is the deadline for eBay to compensate you in 2023?
It usually takes about two days from the time you confirm the buyer's purchase to start the payment, if they are scheduled for one day. When your payments are set to be weekly and we start payments on Tuesday for sales you made Monday through Sunday during the previous week.

### How can I receive a payment from eBay?
You can choose to accept other payment options when you create your listing. Simply click on the Payment Options section of the listing form and choose the payment methods you'd like to take. If you accept payments by mail, such as cash or checks, for example, make sure your address is correct.

### Can't access eBay anymore?
We've changed the method by which you receive support from eBay. The phone number is no longer available as well, which is an individual number that is available to people who might have experienced fraud on their accounts.