Seller won't leave me alone after closed case
After an online dispute is closed, the other party may escalate by sending non-stop daily messages, calls, and insults. They often bypass the official platform by having business partners email you directly. The harassment frequently crosses into real-world intimidation, using your personal information to contact family members, email workplaces, or send your home address to remind you they know where you live.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Marking messages as spam
- 2Ignoring the messages
- 3Reaching out to platform support to block the user
- 4Filing a police report or contacting law enforcement
- 5Filing a police report and inquiring about a restraining order
- 6Seeking a free consultation from a local lawyer referral service
- 7Maintaining total radio silence while documenting and saving all communication logs in a secure folder
- 8Notifying the employer of a harasser or accomplice when corporate email/resources are involved
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Seller won’t leave me alone after closed case”source ↗
“Now they keep messaging me every day telling me to send it back and they even got their drop shipping partner to email my person email telling me to send the item back.”source ↗
“I am in this exact same situation. Except they keep sending me MY address and reminding me they know where I live.”source ↗
“Except it was another seller messaging me after I had a listing of his taken down for using my pics and descriptions. Even found my wife and started harassing her.”source ↗
“The client failed to download her files during the notice period and began texting, calling, and insulting me non-stop.”source ↗
“When I maintained total radio silence, she escalated by emailing threats directly to my immigrant father at his place of work.”source ↗
Where this came up
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