Can you restrict buyers who have a 0 (or very low) feedback?

[wolfpack1875]

Can you restrict buyers who have a 0 (or very low) feedback?

[mtgraves7984]

Nope.

[coolections]

no

[soh.maryl]

Here's my standard reply to that question:  Using your imagination, go way back to the very beginning of eBay, whenever that was.  What if eBay had only allowed buyers who had accumulated FB to buy on eBay? Where would eBay be now? How many buyers would there be? 

It's like my walking into a store and being met at the door by an employee (a guardian?) who would tell me I could not shop there because I'd never shopped there before.  

[ckimodog]

@wolfpack1875 

You cannot. However if you list all your items at a fixed buy it now price with immediate payment checked off and don't offer best offers, you'll be more likely to attract a serious buyer.  

Happy Selling. 

[buyselljack2016]

You can block a user with (-1) or lower. As buyers can no longer get negative feedback that ID would also have to be a seller to be rated (-1) or lower, so as mtgraves posted, the answer is truly "nope".

You could restrict the # of items that a low feedback buyer could purchase in a short time by setting "buyer requirements", but still not a completer restriction. Also they could just purchase as a "guest" if the listing is a "buy it now".

Use help and contact to "search" buyer requirements.

[s.scharmu0 · Accepted solution]

Would you have liked to be restricted when you 1st started & had zero feedback?

[buyselljack2016]

Use help and contact to "search" buyer requirements. You can of course come here to the boards to ask a question anytime that you would like to, but Help & contact is located at the top, or bottom of many eBay pages, and can be used to find many official eBay policies. 

[nobody*s_perfect]

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@buyselljack2016 wrote:

You can block a user with (-1) or lower. ....

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That option has been removed from the site preferences "buyer requirements" page.

[wolfpack1875]

I was looking for a yes or no answer. Not someone's condescending, moral "high ground" opinion.

[dirk12955]

Well,    You got it.      Some of us are proud to be the first seller to a "0"  feedback buyer.  

A buyer is a buyer.     That's why most of us sellers are here.   

[janet9988]

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@wolfpack1875 wrote:

I was looking for a yes or no answer. Not someone's condescending, moral "high ground" opinion.

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Well, your question is condescending to 0 or low feedback buyers.

[media_graveyard]

I don't mind them. Especially if they are guest accounts. Some people can't be bothered to make an account or don't want too or use Ebay so little that they forget their credentials and just start a new account. 

[stephenmorgan]

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@wolfpack1875 wrote:

I was looking for a yes or no answer. Not someone's condescending, moral "high ground" opinion.

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You can on a individual basis, that is if you know who they are you can block them.  If you had a issue with a user you can add them to your Blocked Buyers List (limited to 5000).  To completely block everyone who has O feedback, there is not a function to do this.

When eBay first started they would block you from selling unless you had 10 Feedbacks and a person could leave a feedback for a non transaction.

[buyselljack2016]

Thanks, I have not been there recently, and was unaware of that change.

I will try to log that in my memory bank to not post that again, but my bank is aging, and keeps springing holes 🙂