I know the nature of an auction is to do a quick sale, so being bogged down with questions and haggling is not the intent…
But having seen an auction I was interested in and the animal potentially having an unlisted medical issue has made me nervous. Sure, I can possibly just go to another animal the seller has listed and ping there…but that’s rude and not the point of an inquiry. So when the seller doesn’t have messaging enabled, it keeps me from bidding.
I do not want to be blacklisted from auctions if I refused to follow through on the purchase afterwards.
I know that the policies MM has in place would protect me if I found out the animal did have an issue on arrival…but I don’t want to put the animal through the potential shipping stress back and forth either.