Fed up.

[lcamp211]

I'm trying to sell a phone on ebay, and everytime the listing is about to end everyone gets outbid buy a brand new account with a 0 rating and wins, then they start asking me to email them my paypal information, obviously I'm not that dumb. Any tips to prevent this from happening over and over? By the time a real person actually wins it's not going to be worth anything anymore lol.

[timemachine777]

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@castlemagicmemorieswrote:

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@timemachine777wrote:

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@lcamp211wrote:

I'm trying to sell a phone on ebay, and everytime the listing is about to end everyone gets outbid buy a brand new account with a 0 rating and wins, then they start asking me to email them my paypal information, obviously I'm not that dumb. Any tips to prevent this from happening over and over? By the time a real person actually wins it's not going to be worth anything anymore lol.

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Very simple fix. Go to your account and click site preferences, and edit your buyer requirements and up the number of feedback required to buy from you.

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Time,  there isn't a block that does this...sorry.

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Actually there is. Go to your account tab and on the drop down menu select Site Preferences, and then under Selling Preferences scroll down to Buyer requirements, and click Show, and then click Edit. Scroll down to: Buyers who may bid on several of my items and not pay for them...Set this one to: 1 ( Block buyers who are currently winning or have bought 1 of my items in the last 10 days. ) and set this one to: 0 ( Only apply this block to buyers who have a feedback score of 0 or lower.) 

That's it. 

[*eponymous*]

Correct.  I always wonder why sellers don't use it.

[timemachine777]

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@*eponymous*wrote:

Correct.  I always wonder why sellers don't use it.

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I don't think many people even know all the things that eBay has under the hood of their accounts that can be adjusted, or reset from default settings.  Oh...and I can't forget. Get mysteriously undone sometimes done the road.

[pjcdn2005]

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@timemachine777wrote:

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Actually there is. Go to your account tab and on the drop down menu select Site Preferences, and then under Selling Preferences scroll down to Buyer requirements, and click Show, and then click Edit. Scroll down to: Buyers who may bid on several of my items and not pay for them...Set this one to: 1 ( Block buyers who are currently winning or have bought 1 of my items in the last 10 days. ) and set this one to: 0 ( Only apply this block to buyers who have a feedback score of 0 or lower.) 

That's it. 

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As others have said there is no option to block buyers with zero feedback.  You can only block buyers with feedback in the negative numbers.

[thatsallfolks]

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@timemachine777wrote:Actually there is. Go to your account tab and on the drop down menu select Site Preferences, and then under Selling Preferences scroll down to Buyer requirements, and click Show, and then click Edit. Scroll down to: Buyers who may bid on several of my items and not pay for them...Set this one to: 1 ( Block buyers who are currently winning or have bought 1 of my items in the last 10 days. ) and set this one to: 0 ( Only apply this block to buyers who have a feedback score of 0 or lower.) 

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You post the exact text of the block, then you fail to understand it. OP is trying to sell ONE item. Their goal is to prevent zero/low feedback buyers from bidding on or buying that ONE item. The block you're advocating here only blocks buyers "who are currently winning or have bought 1 of my items in the last 10 days".

Please explain how that option, which blocks people AFTER they've bid on the item, is useful to the OP, who wants to block them BEFORE they bid on the item.

[thatsallfolks]

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@pburnwrote:

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@thatsallfolkswrote:

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@pburnwrote:

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@ittybitnotwrote:

and edit your buyer requirements and up the number of feedback required to buy from you.

I don't think there is any such thing...LOL...

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You don't? LOL.

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Those blocks only affect people attempting to buy multiple items from you. They won’t help the OP.

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I think you've accidentally responded to the wrong poster. I didn't bring up the blocking idea.

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You LOL'd at someone who doesn't think a global block of zero feedbackers exists; they're right, it doesn't.

[pburn]

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@thatsallfolkswrote:

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You LOL'd at someone who doesn't think a global block of zero feedbackers exists; they're right, it doesn't.

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I was agreeing with him/her. I'm sorry that wasn't clear. I should have expressed it better.

[thatsallfolks]

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@pburnwrote:

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@thatsallfolkswrote:

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You LOL'd at someone who doesn't think a global block of zero feedbackers exists; they're right, it doesn't.

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I was agreeing with him/her. I'm sorry that wasn't clear. I should have expressed it better.

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Then I misinterpreted your post. Thanks, I probably should have realized that, having read some of your other posts. It seemed "out of character".

[lewisburggold]

Do a buy it now.  For some reason they dont mess with fixed prices so much.  You can always do a second chance offer to buyers that they outbid also.  Its getting out of control though the scammers are just to much.   Scammers wont be happy till they ruin it for all.  Best regards

[thatsallfolks]

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@lewisburggoldwrote:

For some reason they dont mess with fixed prices so much.

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The reason is the Immediate Payment Required option. Their goal is to get the item without paying.

[timemachine777]

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@pjcdn2005wrote:

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@timemachine777wrote:

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Actually there is. Go to your account tab and on the drop down menu select Site Preferences, and then under Selling Preferences scroll down to Buyer requirements, and click Show, and then click Edit. Scroll down to: Buyers who may bid on several of my items and not pay for them...Set this one to: 1 ( Block buyers who are currently winning or have bought 1 of my items in the last 10 days. ) and set this one to: 0 ( Only apply this block to buyers who have a feedback score of 0 or lower.) 

That's it. 

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As others have said there is no option to block buyers with zero feedback.  You can only block buyers with feedback in the negative numbers.

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What I posted above comes from my buyer requirements on my eBay account.

[timemachine777]

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@thatsallfolkswrote:

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@timemachine777wrote:Actually there is. Go to your account tab and on the drop down menu select Site Preferences, and then under Selling Preferences scroll down to Buyer requirements, and click Show, and then click Edit. Scroll down to: Buyers who may bid on several of my items and not pay for them...Set this one to: 1 ( Block buyers who are currently winning or have bought 1 of my items in the last 10 days. ) and set this one to: 0 ( Only apply this block to buyers who have a feedback score of 0 or lower.) 

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You post the exact text of the block, then you fail to understand it. OP is trying to sell ONE item. Their goal is to prevent zero/low feedback buyers from bidding on or buying that ONE item. The block you're advocating here only blocks buyers "who are currently winning or have bought 1 of my items in the last 10 days".

Please explain how that option, which blocks people AFTER they've bid on the item, is useful to the OP, who wants to block them BEFORE they bid on the item.

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When you set your values to 1 and 0, the system blocks all buyers that are currently placing a winning bid on your item and also have 0 FB. I can change both values to reflect a buyer that is placing bids on more than one item and increase the FB limit to 5 maximum.

[a_c_green]

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@timemachine777 wrote:

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@thatsallfolks wrote:

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@timemachine777 wrote:
Actually there is. Go to your account tab and on the drop down menu select Site Preferences, and then under Selling Preferences scroll down to Buyer requirements, and click Show, and then click Edit. Scroll down to: Buyers who may bid on several of my items and not pay for them...Set this one to: 1 ( Block buyers who are currently winning or have bought 1 of my items in the last 10 days. ) and set this one to: 0 ( Only apply this block to buyers who have a feedback score of 0 or lower.) 

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You post the exact text of the block, then you fail to understand it. OP is trying to sell ONE item. Their goal is to prevent zero/low feedback buyers from bidding on or buying that ONE item. The block you're advocating here only blocks buyers "who are currently winning or have bought 1 of my items in the last 10 days".

Please explain how that option, which blocks people AFTER they've bid on the item, is useful to the OP, who wants to block them BEFORE they bid on the item.

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When you set your values to 1 and 0, the system blocks all buyers that are currently placing a winning bid on your item and also have 0 FB. I can change both values to reflect a buyer that is placing bids on more than one item and increase the FB limit to 5 maximum. 

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Perhaps a screenshot would help to clarify things here. From what I've read so far, this (below) is the setting that can be made:  

Buyer Requirements (partial)

Notice in the screenshot above that you cannot arbitrarily block zero-feedback bidders completely; the first setting shown above ("Buyers with a negative feedback score") will only go as high as -1 feedback, not zero, and -1 basically doesn't exist anymore, except for really bad sellers who are trying to buy with the same account.

However, in the settings for "Buyers who may bid on several of my items and not pay for them," you can indeed have Zero feedback as one of your blocking conditions. See the highlight in the pulldown menu for that setting above.

[thatsallfolks]

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@timemachine777wrote:

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@thatsallfolkswrote:

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@timemachine777wrote:Actually there is. Go to your account tab and on the drop down menu select Site Preferences, and then under Selling Preferences scroll down to Buyer requirements, and click Show, and then click Edit. Scroll down to: Buyers who may bid on several of my items and not pay for them...Set this one to: 1 ( Block buyers who are currently winning or have bought 1 of my items in the last 10 days. ) and set this one to: 0 ( Only apply this block to buyers who have a feedback score of 0 or lower.) 

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You post the exact text of the block, then you fail to understand it. OP is trying to sell ONE item. Their goal is to prevent zero/low feedback buyers from bidding on or buying that ONE item. The block you're advocating here only blocks buyers "who are currently winning or have bought 1 of my items in the last 10 days".

Please explain how that option, which blocks people AFTER they've bid on the item, is useful to the OP, who wants to block them BEFORE they bid on the item.

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When you set your values to 1 and 0, the system blocks all buyers that are currently placing a winning bid on your item and also have 0 FB. I can change both values to reflect a buyer that is placing bids on more than one item and increase the FB limit to 5 maximum.

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Yes, we know what the setting does. Why do you not understand that an option that blocks someone from bidding on MORE THAN ONE OF YOUR ITEMS doesn't help an OP who is offering ONLY ONE ITEM?

[thatsallfolks]

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@a_c_greenwrote:
However, in the settings for "Buyers who may bid on several of my items and not pay for them," you can indeed have Zero feedback as one of your blocking conditions. See the highlight in the pulldown menu for that setting above.

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I'm pretty sure we're all on board with the ability to block a zero if, and only if, they're already bidding on one of your items or have bought one recently. Howerver, that is of absolutely no help to the OP.