eBay

gujersey3ozs · ‎10-30-2019

I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing a drastic increase in the number of non payers? Over the last 30 to 60 days, I have had 5/6 non payers on sports related items. This is obviously frustrating because the item then has to be relisted, but even more frustrating is that ebay does NOTHING to the buyer. Even though they say they monitor this, I had one buyer, non pay twice on me before I blocked him. After non paying twice, I checked his feedback and there was nothing indicating he was a multiple non payer AND the account was still active, so he was free to continue.

fashunu4eeuh · ‎10-30-2019

Hi, it is frustrating. eBay does offer blocks in Buyer Requirements for those buyers with 2 or more non-payment strikes. As long as sellers use the Unpaid Item Dispute for non-payers, these accounts will find they are blocked from purchasing from those sellers for a year.

As for checking a buyer’s feedback for evidence of deadbeat behavior, the reason you found nothing is due to policy—buyers can only receive positive feedback.

lex-talon · ‎10-30-2019

I'm having an increase in sales, but haven't had a non payer in quite awhile. A buyer has to accumulate enough strikes before eBay takes action. Not sure how many, only they know.

a_c_green · ‎10-30-2019

@fashunu4eeuh wrote:
Hi, it is frustrating. eBay does offer blocks in Buyer Requirements for those buyers with 2 or more non-payment strikes. As long as sellers use the Unpaid Item Dispute for non-payers, these accounts will find they are blocked from purchasing from those sellers for a year.

And, just to add to that above, you can see the recent history of deadbeats blocked from your listings on your Buyer Requirements Activity Log here: https://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?BuyerRequirementsActivityLog

P.S. Regarding zero-feedback bidders and whether they're any more reliable than older accounts, I can report that the two deadbeats currently showing in my own blocked-bidder activity log as being blocked recently from one or more of my auctions (one guy bounced off two of my auctions before getting the message) opened their accounts in October of 2015 (feedback 154) and December of 2012 (feedback 54).