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Unpaid Cancellations
How long does eBay suspend a buyer from bidding on items if the buyer has excessive unpaid cancellations?
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How long does eBay suspend a buyer from bidding on items if the buyer has excessive unpaid cancellations?
disneyshopper
Mentor3 years agoIt is the SELLERS who block buyers with 2 or more unpaid items. And that will be for 12 months. If you have more than 2 unpaid items, as each one falls off at the 12 month mark, leaving only one, then you should be able to bid/buy from those sellers.
properma-86
OP3 years agoThanks for the info. But, how would any seller know that a buyer has unpaid items, unless it's automatically included as an option for the seller. Is it something that is included in the algorithm when they sign up as a seller? I believe I have a couple of strikes, and yet was still able to bid on items. Well, I guess I won't know for sure. Anyway, thanks.
woodland_gnome
·3 years agoThe seller doesn't have to know, eBay does. eBay offers options ("Buyer Requirements") to automatically block those with unpaid item cancellations (formerly known as "strikes") within the past 12 months. 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.
And all this depends on the seller who got stiffed actually doing the cancellation for non-payment. Since there is no longer a financial incentive to do so (since the Final Value Fee is no longer charged once there is a sale but rather now only on payment) some don't do anything, while others will cancel for some other reason rather than waiting out the 4 full calendar days buyers have to pay before the seller can do so.
Look in the various sections (not sure which one, and you might have to set it to look at all of 2023 and then 2022 since it can go back 12 months) of your Purchase History to see if any sellers have canceled for non-payment.
AND even if your particular sellers do nothing, items that eBay does not have record of you having paid for can affect your buying limits.