How to block a member from seeing your listings or feedback?

[better_than_ice_cream]

@sea.turtle.soul 

@penguins_dont_fly 

You asked here on the M2M board (where I am unable to respond) if you can block a member from seeing your feedback profile.  While you cannot block a specific member, you can set your feedback to Private.  However, in order to sell on eBay, your feedback profile must be public.

Here are the instructions:

https://www.ebay.com/help/account/changing-account-settings/feedback-profiles?id=4204 

[pburn]

@better_than_ice_cream 

The OP who started that thread was interested in blocking only one particular member/buyer from seeing his/her listings and/or feedback, not everyone. The link you provided will hide feedback from everyone, and, as you say, cannot be utilized with a selling account. 

The link, while probably handy in some circumstances (which I can't really imagine right at this moment) is probably not the solution the OP was looking for. 

penquins_dont_fly's answer was complete and correct to address the OP's situation.

[mam98031]

To be able to respond on the M2M board you must be an Community Mentor.  To qualify to be a Community Mentor you must be a knowledgeable, seasoned member of Ebay.  We go through a vetting / approval process to become a Mentor.  Penguins is a mentor with a great command of the Ebay rules.

And I agree with the other poster that what Penguins answered on that board was correct to the question asked.  

I'm confident you were just trying to be helpful.

[div_style]

My wish would be that buyers who had left 2 or more negatives for sellers in the last year could be prevented from buying or bidding on my items.

[slippinjimmy]

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@div_style wrote:

My wish would be that buyers who had left 2 or more negatives for sellers in the last year could be prevented from buying or bidding on my items.

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Do you believe that ALL negatives are unjustified?

Do you believe that if I bought 50 items in the past year and for a couple of them I received, no item, broken item, or misrepresented item from sellers with poor customer service I'm not worthy of exchanging my money for your goods?

And people wonder why eBay can't retain buyers........

[pburn]

So true. I just left a negative for an INR. Buyer didn't upload tracking number until AFTER I filed the INR, and then never bothered to ship the item.

[mam98031]

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@div_style wrote:

My wish would be that buyers who had left 2 or more negatives for sellers in the last year could be prevented from buying or bidding on my items.

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I find that blanket statements are rarely correct.  This subject is a bit more complex than that.  To simply say a buyer with 2+ negs in a year should be banned is way to simplistic and likely completely unfair.  It is one thing if the buyer only purchased a handful of things in the past year, but what about a buyer that purchased a whole bunch of stuff.  More than just the number of FB has to be considered.  Otherwise it is a rule that would only do more harm than good.  

[div_style]

Most buyers don't leave any negative FB.  In 2019 I bought thousands of items on my buying ID.  This pic shows how many pages of items in my purchase history for 2019.  And not once did I consider leaving a negative.  If a seller is willing to work with buyer, no neg, in my opinion, is warranted.  In fact in 20 years on eBay, on one ID or another, I have left only 2 negs.

Anyway, my suggestion is no more draconian than blocking buyers with 2 INRs.  It doesn't stop them from buying elsewhere.  It just wouldn't show them my items.  Your perspective may differ from mine, that's OK.

[mam98031]

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@div_style wrote:

Most buyers don't leave any negative FB.  In 2019 I bought thousands of items on my buying ID.  This pic shows how many pages of items in my purchase history for 2019.  And not once did I consider leaving a negative.  If a seller is willing to work with buyer, no neg, in my opinion, is warranted.  In fact in 20 years on eBay, on one ID or another, I have left only 2 negs.

Anyway, my suggestion is no more draconian than blocking buyers with 2 INRs.  It doesn't stop them from buying elsewhere.  It just wouldn't show them my items.  Your perspective may differ from mine, that's OK.

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You can't block buyers with 2 INRs either.  I'm unsure of your point.

[div_style]

Oops, I meant unpaid item strikes.

[mam98031]

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@div_style wrote:

Oops, I meant unpaid item strikes.

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Whoops.  

I should have know!!