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I was out of the country..for a couple of months......to visit my 90+. auntie at Sidney Australia...
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I was out of the country..for a couple of months......to visit my 90+. auntie at Sidney Australia...
woodland_gnome
·2 years agoThen you shouldn't have committed to buy items that you would be unable to pay for before you left. Or found an internet connection to do so once you got there.
The most common block for non-payers depends on the seller you are trying to buy from. Some don't enable that Buyer Requirement (block) at all. Some enable it but at more lenient parameters than the strictest level of blocking anyone with 2 in the past 12 months (some leave it at the defaults which are the lowest number for each parameter--2 strikes in the past 1 month--some long-time sellers haven't updated it from the old maximum timeframe of 6 months, and some for whatever reason choose to give more than second chances--the choices go up to 100 strikes in the lookback period).
So for the strictest level you will no longer be blocked by any seller (for that reason anyway) 12 months (and 1 day) after your second to last strike was issued (I know eBay no longer uses that term but it's a lot easier to type and comprehend than what the PR types decided eBay would call it). For those who don't have it set you can buy right now (assuming no other issues, such as running into your buying limits or another Buyer Requirement by that seller). For any other combination of x strikes in y months they will not apply to you when your xth to last strike is older than y months.
If instead your problem is that your buying limits are now low as a result, live within them. Don't be bidding or making offers on multiple items at the same time: wait until near the end of an auction to bid (ONE time at your TRUE maximum--once you bid it counts toward your Open Transaction Limits and there is no waiver of the limit to let you rebid on the same auction) and then pay immediately. If you can't wait for a Best Offer to expire before you make another commitment to buy don't make it, use the Buy It Now (and pay immediately whether it forces you to or not).