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Removing bid blocking at auction.
I have two unfulfilled items on my account. I paid everything on time. can you check this? I cannot bid on items. I receive a message saying that I have two unpaid items. Can you remove these restrictions?
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inceptions
Mentor2 years agoHi @and123_76
Unpaid item strikes roll off your record after 12 months. Until then, your ability to buy may be limited.
You can see which items you didn't pay for by clicking the Unpaid items tab in your Purchase History.
Most sellers will add buyers to their blocked buyer list when a customer doesn't pay.
woodland_gnome
·2 years agoIf you don't find them there check the "Returns and cancellations" bubble instead. I suspect "Unpaid items" is for items that are awaiting payment, and those cancelled for non-payment (or any reason) would not be there. The block that sellers can sell on multiple (2 or more in the past 12 or fewer months) unpaid items is based on "unpaid cancellation records" which require the seller to cancel for that particular reason after 4 days of non-payment, so they should be in Returns and Cancellations. Let us know if I am wrong about where it is (or if it is in both).
Whether you can buy an item 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.