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Can anyone help me check out a buyer ( sexy-nickers) to see if they are fake or not? I have had so much trouble with fake people that get on here and try to pull a scam. It's got me watching everything and sometimes I don't feel that Ebay is a safe platform as they have failed to listen to me about scams. Anyone have a sure fire way to check if some one is real or not? Believe me, I warned Ebay twice about a couple of people and they let them continue to try to scam me and would mot listen to me when I talk to them. They say it's safe, but it is not, sometimes I just need a way to make sure bidders are actually going to do what they say and pay. Ebay needs to help people more and not be so hard to get in touch with a person who will be happy to help me weed out these sick people. They just don't seem to care till it's too late, for me anyways. I just don't trust people anymore as I am the last of the baby-boomers and we grew up taking someone's word and they did what they said, but now, I can't trust anything and it's frustrating. This new generation is terrible and have no respect for peoples time or efforts. I just want some real feedback on how to make sure I keep my listings safe and fair. Thanks and please give me some idea's on how to help Ebay clean up this platform from rotten people! Thanks again!!
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Mentor2 years ago@jbuck711
Sorry you are experiencing so many bad buyers. Here's some advice that will help you reduce your unpaid buyer cancelations. There is no way to check a buyer out ahead of time.
1. The only way to avoid this problem is to list as Fixed Price immediate payment required, only NO auctions and NO best offers**.
**( eBay does have a new setting you can turn on to require buyers to provide a payment method before they make an offer, it is at the bottom of this page: https://www.ebay.com/bmgt/buyerrequirements.)
To have the immediate payment required option you will need to change listing tools if you are using the Quick Listing Tool.
Sign up for Seller Hub while working from your computer to create your listing using the New Listing Tool.
A. Go to https://www.ebay.com/sh/landing
B. Click Start Using Seller Hub
C. To create a new listing go to your active listings page:
https://www.ebay.com/sh/lst/active and click the blue Create listing button near the top, right-hand side of the page.
D. The IPR box is located by selecting edit all fields in the payment section for this listing tool, then click on the blue hyper link for Payments Managed by eBay. On the next screen you will have the option for Immediate Payment Required.
2) If you have offers from suspicious buyers or they don't pay then add them to your blocked buyer list:
https://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?BidderBlockLogin
3) If buyer doesn't pay then on the 5th day after sale cancel as buyer hasn't paid. This prevents the buyer from leaving feedback and they receive a strike. Final value sellers fees are not charged until an item is paid for. Do NOT send an invoice as that starts the clock over again for when you can cancel as buyer hasn't paid.
https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/getting-paid/resolving-unpaid-items-buyers?id=4137&st=
4) Have you set up your shipping preferences and buyer requirements in account settings:
1. Block buyers whose primary shipping address is in a location I don't ship to AND block buyers with 2 or more unpaid items in 12 months. https://www.ebay.com/bmgt/buyerrequirements
2. Require buyers to provide a payment method before they make an offer>>
Buyer requirements:
https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/listings/creating-managing-listings/setting-buyer-requirements?id=...