Private Messages NOT Obvious

John,

Private Messaging is only available to Digital Subscribers. It's one of the perks of being a digital subscriber. If the person to whom you are sending the PM is not a digital sub, they will never see it.

You should always use Email to contact a seller, not a PM.

How about that.  I did not know private messaging is only available to digital subscribers.  Thank you, Rich.

@Rich Melvin posted:

John,

Private Messaging is only available to Digital Subscribers. It's one of the perks of being a digital subscriber. If the person to whom you are sending the PM is not a digital sub, they will never see it.

Rich, if the person isn't a Digital Subscriber, the option doesn't appear in their profile when you click on it.  That being the case, if he managed to actually send a PM, the person must have been a digital subscriber, right?

Regular User

Digital Subscriber

If you are a digital sub, the option to send a PM is always there in your account.

If you try to send a PM to someone who is not a digital subscriber, you will see this:

Even if the seller is a digital sub, I would still strongly suggest you use EMAIL to contact a seller, not a PM.

I must admit that I missed a couple of PMs  in the beginning because I was just used to the red dot for alerts, and wasn't in any hurry to read them because I already had seen them in my email. Now I pay more immediate attention. In fact, I just completed a nice sale with @john in western pa this morning using PM.

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

Rich, if the person isn't a Digital Subscriber, the option doesn't appear in their profile when you click on it.  That being the case, if he managed to actually send a PM, the person must have been a digital subscriber, right?

Regular User

Digital Subscriber

Not replying back to John, But being a newb as a digital subscriber, Were do I find that screen John as posted above? I cant find it.

**EDIT** Never mind I found it.....

Got it Rich, that makes sense.

I get email notifications whenever I get a PMs. They are one of the options in settings, so you can still limit other notifications while knowing you’ve got a message without having to always check the bell icon. Rich’s suggestion to use email is spot on though because it covers everyone, not juse digital subscribers and is probably checked more frequently.

I had someone send me a PM once and it forwarded to my email. I was able to respond to them direct after that but it seemed to allow it for a message to be sent to me.

I just looked at "settings" and "private messages" to find an option to send incoming private messages, also to my email as DoubleDAZ does. I can't find it.  If it can be done, I need assistance figuring out how to do it. That is a really handy tool.

Many thanks for the responses.

You can’t send technically send them as email. What you can do is turn on notifications for private messages in Your Settings/Notifications/Private Messages. The notification includes the contents of the private message, I’ve got one in my Inbox right now. You don’t respond directly from email. You click View Reply and it takes you to the message where you reply.

It’s not in your settings. Just click on POST and choose Private Message.