You're making yourself look very bad on this forum.

When you write  things like this:

"However, if people like this can find their way to a member to member forum, how come they cannot figure out the basic logic of contacting the seller without someone telling them that?"

Not only is it detrimental to the OP , a brand new member  who may have read it, other new members may fear posting here.

That's something I'd hate to happen on our forums.

I have been on eBay for 25 years, I was posting/replying on these forums when dial-up internet was a thing and the iPhone was not.

I am not here to make friends nor do I seek popularity, that is not on my Maslow's hierarchy to feel good about myself, However, I am here to place my input/opinion.

Whether it be out of boredom or interest, I will read and state it how I see it or how it is.

Brand new member? How about a new ID or 2nd or 3rd one. There is no such thing as brand new members on eBay other than 18-21 yo and that demographic is more internet savvy than anyone on these boards to be coming here to ask a question that they should be asking the seller.

Here is a valuable factual observation, a majority of members that create OPs who do not reply at least once to one of the actual replies that answered their post/query have not even bothered to come back to see if anyone "helped" them.