I have been barred from buying. How long till I can buy again?

Question

I went away on holiday to Sri Lanka without my computer.

I completely forgot about the bids till I returned and checked my ebay account about three weeks later!!!

I know; completely stupid of me but these things happen.

I have bought over 650 items; and now I am barred. How blooming annoying!

Anyone know till what year I am locked out and how much I am penalised when /if I casn buy again?

Kevin

woodland_gnome · Answer

It 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.

That is for the Buyer Requirement that sellers have control of. It is likely you triggered an adjustment downwards of your eBay buying limits (and the unpaid items will count towards those limits for some unspecified period of time) which you might also run into.

kensgiftshop · Answer

The UPI strikes will drop off in a year.