Remove Guest checkout option

[retrokonsoleking]

I know eBay don’t let sellers block people with under 5 feedback score anymore which is annoying as hell and sorely missed but I just thought can I turn off the guest checkout option as that may also cut down the amount of zero feedback bidders im getting? ( and if so how do u do it as I’m assuming there is no easy simple way to do it as this is eBay after all nothing is made easy for sellers these days other than for them to now take their ridiculously high fee charges) 

[evry1nositswindy]

@fern*wood  Good call!

[mtgraves7984]

Oh, my... 👀

[gloryglorygifts]

Just because they are a guest doesn't necessarily mean they are going to be a problem. I don't have exact percentages but the last few years I would say that about 75% of my customers were guests, with a smattering of newbies, based on their feedback scores. I haven't had any problems with them but all my listings are BIN. You can tell who they are in my feedback left for others because I basically say they paid quickly and we look forward to working with them again.

Every day on the boards I see sellers complain about sales being either slow or non-existent. Why would you want to turn the faucet down further? 

[maxine*j]

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@fern*wood wrote:

Are the rules different in the UK about giving buyers false positives being a policy violation?

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Holy sardines! 

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[dbfolks166mt]

I really think that ebay shoud do away with guest checkout

I have seen many buyers come to these boards with problems related to it

they have tried to use gift cards or pre paid cards and have gotten hung up and all I can think about is its because you are checking out as a guest.

While it would probably cut down on some problems I am not sure what the adverse impact would be. I have used a guest account to buy 100's of things online. It may result in the loss of a lot of viable sales. 

[dbfolks166mt]

Yes, that is clear if it's given a moment's actual consideration and thought, isn't it?

But a lot of people apparently cannot understand what they're seeing there.  The "block buyers with a feedback score..." is indented because it is a subset or a suboption to the Buyer Requirements.  IF you check "Block buyers who are currently winning or have bought...", THEN you may use "Only set this requirement to block buyers with a feedback score..." as a secondary option to that choice.

There is not, and there never has been, an option to block buyers with fewer than 5 FB as a primary requirement, a stand-alone option.

I've had more success arguing with brick walls than I have in arguing with sellers about this, though. 😂

     Agree with you 100% and while I understand the setting option and what it does a lot of sellers, especially new ones, do not. 

[toomuchstuffagain35]

I agree. There are a lot of buyers out there who don't want the hassle of having to sign up to a site to buy something. The sites who want you to sign up just to LOOK are even worse.

I venture a  lot, like me, go "okay fine, you don't want my money I'll go elsewhere"

[richard1rst]

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@retrokonsoleking wrote:

I know eBay don’t let sellers block people with under 5 feedback score anymore which is annoying as hell and sorely missed but I just thought can I turn off the guest checkout option as that may also cut down the amount of zero feedback bidders im getting? ( and if so how do u do it as I’m assuming there is no easy simple way to do it as this is eBay after all nothing is made easy for sellers these days other than for them to now take their ridiculously high fee charges) 

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From a buyer’s perspective

Once in a while I need something I can not find on eBay (or I find it elsewhere for less). So I click on a site I have never purchased from and, in all probability, will never buy from again. If they require that I set up an account, log in, password, etc I leave the site. No point in adding one more source of Spam and Newsletters. If they allow me to buy as a “guest” I make the purchase.

So your requirement MAY (I admit no proof) reduce the sales of those who do pay.

It is really no different then when I ran a B&M store. Someone would come in, take up a chunk of my time with innumerable questions, and finish with OK I’ll think about it and get back to you.

And then never see them again.

It is simply the way it is.

[inhawaii]

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@maxine*j wrote:

There is not, and there never has been, an option to block buyers with fewer than 5 FB as a primary requirement, a stand-alone option.

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Not in America but they used to have that in the UK dang it!    😉

[toomuchstuffagain35]

Let's suspend disbelief for one second and assume OP is correct.

They had this in the UK for the (very) small amount of time it took for the sellers to start complaining there were NO buyers.

[house*of*paws]

I saw a Buzzfeed article a while back entitled something like '37 Things You Thought Were True But Aren't'.

'Blocking eBay buyers with zero feedback' could have been one of them.

I've seen dozens ... if not hundreds ... of Community posts where people 'remember' being able to block zero-feedback buyers.  I have to say the current OP might be the most difficult to disabuse of this false belief.   🙂

[reallynicestamps]

ut down the amount of zero feedback bidders im getting? ( and if so how do u do it as I’m assuming there is no easy simple way to do it

Less than 15% of listings on eBayare auctions.

I notice that the last auction youran had only one bid.

You can cut down on the number of deadbeat buyers you get by switching to the more popular Fixed Price and end unpaid items by adding Immediate Payment Required.

[doc-holmes]

Perhaps we have all once again fallen victim to the Mandela Effect! 

[dbfolks166mt]

Less than 15% of listings on eBayare auctions.

I notice that the last auction youran had only one bid.

You can cut down on the number of deadbeat buyers you get by switching to the more popular Fixed Price and end unpaid items by adding Immediate Payment Required.

     Always love the canned answer of BIN with immediate payment required. That guarantees is you will get paid and you will never, unless it's a scam, get more than your BIN price. No guarantee buyer will not cancel the order or return it anymore than there is with an auction format. 

     Do you know if eBay ever implemented the immediate payment required if an offer is made on a BIN now item and accepted? If not may want to shuck the OBO option on BIN. 

[reallynicestamps]

if an offer is made on a BIN now item and accepted? If not may want to shuck the OBO option on BIN. 

If a Best Offer is accepted the IPR cannot be implemented.

Which makes sense since that kind of haggling usually happens when one or the other parties is not hanging over the keyboard fingers poised. Although I did accept a BO a few hours ago and was paid within minutes, so obviously it can happen.

More often, the haggling takes place over a few hours as members' lives go on.

Best Offer is a kind of backwards auction, so IPR can't work.