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bainbrig | 11:02 Tue 16th Apr 2019 | Shopping & Style
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Paypal. Do they automatically give out your phone number to people you’re buying from?

And if so is there a way round it?

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I don't know but you could give a fake phone number.

Why don't you want the seller to have your phone number?
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A) fake number sounds good
B) because they’d phone you up! (trying to sell you things).

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I use Paypal and that hasn't happened to me BB or I wouldn't use it.
no people I buy from through paypal are not given my phone number
I've been using Paypal for over 16 years and they have never phoned me let alone anyone I've bought from!
No they don’t.
I use PayPal to buy goods a lot and have never had a phone call from a seller.
I use PayPal all the time and no seller has ever 'phoned me or sent a text message.
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Well, you say they don’t, but that doesn’t explain Mrs B’s experience yesterday when she got a receipt stating her address (fine) and our phone number!
I use Paypal all the time and wasn't aware they had my phone number. If they do, they certainly haven't phoned me - neither has anyone I have bought from.
Whenever a site insists on a telephone number I give 00000000000, or if this is rejected I then give the site's own number. The latter always gets accepted IME.
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Do you get receipts from the sellers, and do you look closely at them?
Yes and yes
Receipt from Paypal, not usually from sellers.
I’ve never ever seen my phone n7mber on anything and I use PayPal regularly.
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I’ve changed my listed phone on Paypal from my home no. to an old unused mobile - they send a text so it can’t be a fake!
I thought your concern was about sellers contacting you by 'phone not PayPal?
I have got more paypal receipts than I care to admit to and not one has my phone number on.
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Corbyloon. Sorry to be pedantic, but my question reads "Paypal. Do they automatically give out your phone number to people you’re buying from?" The business about what sellers do/don't do was secondary.

Woofgang: well, that is odd then, as Mrs B's has our number, loud and clear.

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Being pedantic, you were asked, "Why don't you want the seller to have your phone number?"

You replied "because they’d phone you up! (trying to sell you things)."

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