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Buyers with 0 Feedback score making offers on items then never paying.

Every month I get a couple sales that the person has a feedback score of zero (which I can assume is because it is a new account) and they never pay for the item. I have to play the waiting game and file an unpaid item claim before getting the final value fees refunded and being able to safely relist the item. I have adjusted the settings to block certain types of buyers but I did not want to exclude zero feedback buyers because if someone finds my item through the internet and sets up an account to buy it, I don't want to lose that business. Anyone experience this?

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Buyers with 0 Feedback score making offers on items then never paying.

You cannot block 0 buyers.

 

You can block those with 3 or more unpaid strikes.

 

Have you considered using fixed prices immediate payment required?

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Buyers with 0 Feedback score making offers on items then never paying.


@jennzet-0 wrote:

 

You can block those with 3 or more unpaid strikes.

 


Actually the strictest setting is 2 strikes in the past 12 months.

 

 

 

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Buyers with 0 Feedback score making offers on items then never paying.

Thank you for pointing that out.  I was not aware of that strike.

 

So it is 2 strikes within 12 months.

 

How does it work with 3 strikes?  Do they fall off at a certain period or is the block permanent?

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Buyers with 0 Feedback score making offers on items then never paying.

it happens even with accounts that dont have 0 feedback. I had a situation where a customer purchased two items on BO, total was around $300 free shipping, and it took about a week and filing unpaid item to get it resolved. They did end up paying but never responded to a single courtesy message I sent.

Im still counting the days before they can no longer ram a SNAD scam up my hind end over it.
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Buyers with 0 Feedback score making offers on items then never paying.

My listings are fixed price with immediate payment required however eBay does not require immediate payment on offers.

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Buyers with 0 Feedback score making offers on items then never paying.

Exactly. It typically takes the item off the market for about a 8 days until the unpaid item claim is complete. I did learn that you must do the unpaid item claim every time. If not they could still leave you a negative feedback. I

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Buyers with 0 Feedback score making offers on items then never paying.

Can you remove the best offer option?

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Buyers with 0 Feedback score making offers on items then never paying.

yeah that whole process is a bit of a pain.
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