eBay Motors: How to retrieve the Name (First and last), Phone #, Email, City, and State of the bidders of your auction.

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How to retrieve the  Name (First and last), Phone #, Email, City, and State of the bidders of your auction.

Summary

There are some applications with high ticket items where retrieving the Name (First and last), Phone #, Email, City, and State of the bidders of auctions is nessessary.

Detailed Description

In order to retreive the Name (First and last), Phone #, Email, City, and State of the bidders of your auction, please do the following:

1. As the seller, make a call to GetAllBidders

2. For each bidder, retrieve the username, email address, and postal code

3. Now using the username retrieved from GetAllBiddersResponse, make a call to GetUserContactDetails to get the Name, Phone, City, and State.  In order for this request to work, it must be made using the Seller's UserToken.

Additional Resources

• Documentation:  http://developer.ebay.com/DevZone/XML/docs/Reference/eBay/GetUserContactDetails.html 

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