How many unpaid item strikes?

[thingsgirlsluv71]

How many times can a deadbeat not pay before ebay suspends their account?

[nobody*s_perfect]

There is no evidence that there is any limit.

eBay used to have a "3 strikes and you're out" policy, but it disappeared soon after they introduced the option for sellers to automatically block bidders/buyers based on their strikes. Some sellers  have "Immediate payment required" on all of their listings, so they don't care about a buyer's strikes history.

[dhbookds]

I don't think anyone knows, but have seen a few reports that some are put on an immediate payment stricture and some are barred from auction bidding.   Whether those are "special cases" or via a policy of some sort, I've never seen explained.

There are cases where buyers have a legit reason for not paying.......i.e. seller tries to raise shipping or price after the sale, but whether ebay can/does differentiate between those and the deadbeats, I don't know. 

[pargran3]

I don't think any of us know the answer to that.

As long as sellers file an unpaid item to give the person a strike sellers can block anyone that has two or more strikes in a chosen period of time. Set that in your seller preferences.

Radine

[fashunu4eeuh]

This is not a question that can be answered here in the forums. Ebay plays its cards very close to their chest, so it is impossible to know if or why a member gets suspended or otherwise sanctioned. If i were going to take a guess, I would say it would take many overall violations for a buyer to get banned from the site, not just payment strikes. However, once and a while a buyer will surface who has suffered some lack of buying privileges, such as losing eligibility for the Money Back Guarantee policy. 

Importantly, sellers going the extra mile to give strikes to a deadbeat buyer protects all those sellers savvy enough to set up their Buyer Requirements. So my question would be "How do i minimize my instances of non-payers?" rather than what does it take to get a buyer thrown off the platform.