@exlibristoo wrote:
I have wasted endless hours reporting a buyer to ebay via phone calls and written chats. It has accomplished nothing. I was seller #25 to not receive payment within the previous month and several others followed. Read his negative "positive" feedback and block him from your sales, especially if you sell comic books. Ebay will do nothing but you can.
Wow... I was looking at that guy's feedback before his ID was removed from here, and it is indeed truly staggering, to the point that I decided spend a few minutes walking through his Feedback as a Buyer pages to see what the numbers of false Positives from irate sellers actually are, taking these pages 200 feedbacks at a time:
Page 1: 82 non-payments out of 200 (Past 6 months)
Page 2: 85 non-payments out of 200 (Past 6 months)
Page 3: 16 non-payments out of 200 (Past year)
There are another 500-600 older comments on later pages, all Positives at a glance.
The oldest 16 seller complaints on Page 3 of his buyer feedback end abruptly between 6-12 months ago, beyond which the older comments are all clean, so what I think happened here is that someone else took over the account. Maybe Junior took over after Grandpa died, something like that. Currently there are some genuine Positives interspersed with a sea of false Positives, so as near as I can tell, Junior was simply bidding on multiple auctions and then ignoring the ones that ended too high.
Significantly, there are plenty of mentions by various sellers of cancelling beyond four days, at which time this deadbeat would presumably have received an Unpaid slap each time. (i.e. If the seller waits beyond four days and then cancels with the reason of Buyer Did Not Pay, that slap should have been automatically applied, without the seller needing to do anything more about it themselves.)
I don't know what the default settings are on seller accounts regarding screening of Unpaids, but this deadbeat looks as if he should have been blocked by even the most lenient setting, and yet he's still here. It's hard to say what you have to do as a buyer in order to get yourself booted from eBay, but apparently buying and not paying for things is no longer a real violation.
devon@ebay : Can you find out what the story is about this kind of deadbeat? If you don't have his user ID already, I'm sure the OP can provide it to you, or just send me a PM. He seems to be a poster child for unwanted eBay users, and despite the OP telling us that he's called Customer Service repeatedly (which I know would be your default recommendation), that buyer is still here and rather active.
While I know you cannot discuss specific cases, what would be interesting to know is why a horrendous record of documented non-payment does not seem to be grounds for dismissal.
