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Contact seller

To contact the seller is to communicate directly with the person or business offering an item for sale in an online marketplace.

In plain English

It is about sending or exchanging a message with the person or business behind the item on sale in the marketplace. The key idea is that the communication goes straight to that seller.

In context

Here, "Contact seller" denotes starting a direct message exchange with the person or business offering the item for sale.

Situation
Using marketplace listings, seller messages, ratings, reviews, and buyer protection
What it communicates
opens or starts a message thread with the seller

Meaning limits

By itself, the term does not indicate the purpose or outcome of the communication.

Examples

“Contact the seller, not the marketplace support team, if the listing leaves the size unclear.”

Core meaning

“After saving the listing, Nina contacted the seller to ask whether the lamp base was chipped.”

In context

  • contact Broader Term

    This is a more general act of communicating directly with a person or business, without the added idea that the other party is the seller of the item.