I want to block buyers faster!

[bigdeals.etc]

Ha ha ha. I realize that sounds harsh. But yea, why can't ebay have a link within the Manage Orders page under the "Actions" Pulldown to "block buyer"? I mean it already has an action there to "Report Buyer".

This will be much faster than having to go to the blocked buyers page and copy/pasting the name and adding a comma, then clicking submit. And yes, I'm a stinker.

[mam98031]

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@bigdeals.etc wrote:

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@mam98031 wrote:

I don't think most seller block buyers as easily as you do.  I think it was you that we have had this conversation before.  Right??  You felt the BBL list didn't have enough space??  Is my memory serving be correctly?

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Currently there’s a 5000 ID max in the BBL list. I’ve been on eBay with this account since 2003. If you do the math, I’d have to have an average of about 1 buyer blocked every 1.25 days for 17 years to hit that max. And you think I need more space?

My issue is the way the blocked users and exempt users systems are currently set up. There’s far more redundancies for other actions on eBay... multiple ways to do a certain action within ebay. But for blocking and exempting (is that a word?) buyers, there seems to be only one tedious way.

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I can do the math.  I've been on Ebay for over 20 years and I haven't even come close to maxing out on that number.  I did let you know that you can clean up the list easily whenever you have a moment.  If you go into the screen to enter a new one, the tail end of your list will have members that have an extension of @delete.  You can delete all of those and free up some room on your list as those are NARU'd members previously on your list.  So they are just taking up space.

We also discussed that you have some unusual procedures to seek out and put members on your BBL.

[mam98031]

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@toysaver wrote:

What are the coded numbers on the bottom of my blocked buyer list?  What buyers do they represent?  I have a few dozen  - a bunch of numbers@deleted.

I block buyers if they ask a question and I can see they've left negative feedbacks that seem unwarranted or if they start complaining before they even buy.  

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They are members you had on your BBL that are now no longer Ebay members.  You can delete those any time you feel like it.

[2013fitzp]

Completely agree with this!!  I currently have blocked 2760 buyers, but I sell electronics and get scammed on a weekly basis. 

[gwzcomps]

Geez you are making me look like a rookie. I still think we need to be able to block more than 5000 buyers 😛

[bigdeals.etc]

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@mam98031 wrote:

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We also discussed that you have some unusual procedures to seek out and put members on your BBL.

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Unusual enough to need to block more than 1 buyer every 1.25 days?? Regardless of that, maxing out the list is irrelevant to me suggesting that ebay put the "block/exempt buyer" link under the Actions Pulldown.

General reply below not directed to above...

That Actions pulldown already consists of actions that are very redundant or hardly used (i.e. "contact buyer" is easily done by clicking the feedback and going to "contact").

I never even use "mark/unmark as payment received", I also rarely "view order details"... despite you can easily get to there by clicking once on the "total price" of the item. So the function to block/exempt buyer isn't used just as often. Why doesn't it deserve a spot under the Actions like those? Especially since there's only 1 way I know of how to perform the function (unlike the others with the redundancies).