I listed an item for sale on Gumtree at 1.00pm today. Within 15 minutes I had a text asking me to email them with my best price. It's been unsold on ebay for nearly 3 weeks so I was a bit surprised in the interest so quick (it's a bit of a specialist item).
Anyway I emailed with the answer and then had a very quick message back asking how long I had been using it. By the time I could answer they had chased me for a reply. Once I replied they emailed back asking for condition (it's clear on the ad), location and email address for PayPal. Pretty much straight away I had another email chasing for a response and wanted my email address for PayPal.
So by now I'm getting a bit twitchy about this so I logged onto my BT email page to start a reply and in front of my eyes, all emails from this address just vanished. So I check my phone as I had been reading on the emails and my iPhone has "no message selected" on the screen.
Checked my spam box and they're not in there. How can messages I receive just disappear from my inbox?? Don't you normally get an email that someone is trying to recall an email?
You do need someone's email address to pay thru PayPal though.
Checked my spam filter.
Just had another text from another number but I suspect its the same as the first email had the name "emily" in it and this text has come in from Emily although its giving a different email address to contact.