Found a partial solution. Go to Buyer Requirements when you are creating your listing or change it in your site preferences, checkmark the "Have bid on or bought my items within the last 10 days and met my limit...." change it to "1" and then change the value for "only apply this block...." to "0" and this will make anyone who has a feedback of zero to only make or win/bid 1 at a time. Now, I know its not a total block, but its the closest thing there is on Ebay and at least this will make someone out to harm you with a fake account because you blocked them or they are a competitor to only do this on one of your items, not all of them. Also check mark the "Dont Have A Paypal Account" They can still pay for it by credit card through Paypal but this will give you all the real vitals if the person pays. If they are out to get you then you can cross reference to see if that name appears anywhere else on your Paypal transactions with a different Ebay name and if there is a match then call ebay and they will get off the negative because you cant have 2 Ebay accounts and it will seem that the account was made just to cause harm. This is my setup below and I get very few problems.
Hope this helps
Late to this party. eBayer since 1998 so I've seen a lot over the years.
Yes, we all start with (0). And if all (0) bidders were blocked, there would be no eBay. Got it.
BUT, sellers should have an option to limit a (0) bidder on more expensive items. I want bidders to have a certain amount of street cred before allowing them to bid on a $600 laptop.
Sellers should have the option of requiring a level of positive feedback and account longevity that is commensurate with the level of bidding.
e.g.
At $100, a bidder must have 10 +FB and an account that's 6+ months old.
At $500, then 50 FB and 1+ year old.
etc...
The higher the bid, the higher the street cred.
Seller could choose to enable that or not.
Of course eBay will never do this. But as a seller, I should expect to have more control over who I choose to sell to. There's too many shenanigans on eBay and (0) bidders are highly over-represented on that.
