eBay

ddeb6884 · ‎12-31-2021

Has anyone else noticed how many scammers are trying to buy your products? I’ve had three in one week they open up that day they have zero feedback is it OK to put that you won’t sell to anybody without feedback and that it they have had their accounts for length of time? I just had someone take a bid and take a really good expensive article off of my buyers list and didn’t pay for it and it turns out that she hadn’t been buying anything for nine years so obviously that’s a scam also so what do you do? Ebay said they give them a warning when they do that don’t pay three times and then they close them down at five times. I asked them why there wasn’t a place when they bid for one of your items that shows on their page that they have been people that did not pay so that the seller knows what they’re dealing with! Ebay said they wouldn’t do that and then I told them that was a disservice to the sellers.

ittybitnot · ‎12-31-2021

is it OK to put that you won’t sell to anybody without feedback and that it they have had their accounts for length of time

@ddeb6884

Basically, no. You can "say" that, but it is not enforceable, especially if you DO get paid. You can cut down on non-payers by using fixed price listings with immediate payment required, not sending or accepting 'offers', and by using the block for buyers with more than two non-payer strikes in a years time.

bastu-1689 · ‎12-31-2021

I have had it 4 times recently and I am a very new seller,I dont like the time my listing is off the viewing. I suggested it says pending purchase until completed. Iam very discouraged

bastu-1689 · ‎12-31-2021

where is the best place to check the buyer out Ijust started selling and my first 4 offers the buyers were restricted but I am getting very discour

ddeb6884 · ‎12-31-2021

Thanks so much. I’m going to have to learn to use that fixed price I’ve never use that before. Years ago I was a top seller then I had a bad accident and I didn’t sell for several years because I’m very disabled now but things have changed so much from then. Just learning all over again. Thanks for the info.Happy New Year.

Deb

ddeb6884 · ‎12-31-2021

I don’t know why Ebay doesn’t require the same type of putting a couple dollars in account to verify a buyer just like they do a seller. That would put an end to this nonsense they want your email address and your phone number so they can get into your accounts.
It is discouraging but you can always tell them because they will try to make an offer bid an offer it high. Someone just suggested to me that I do a fixed price and I think I will start doing that that’ll put a stop to this making an offer and all the stuff. Good luck and happy new year.

ittybitnot · ‎12-31-2021

where is the best place to check the buyer out

@bastu-1689

Unfortunately, eBay has removed most of the 'tools' seller's had for vetting a buyer. All buyer IDs have 100% positive feedback regardless if they are great buyers or the biggest scammers on the site. You can no longer see if a 'buyer' purchased five Iphones in the last month and filed phony claims or chargebacks on all of them.

The best you can do is to educate yourself as to the usual "signs" of a potential problem. Reading here OFTEN will be most useful. Of course there is the saying of "don't post anything for sale here that you cannot afford to lose." In all things eBay non-payers are basically the least of your worries.

collectfest · ‎12-31-2021

@ittybitnot wrote:
is it OK to put that you won’t sell to anybody without feedback and that it they have had their accounts for length of time

@ddeb6884

Basically, no. You can "say" that, but it is not enforceable, especially if you DO get paid. You can cut down on non-payers by using fixed price listings with immediate payment required, not sending or accepting 'offers', and by using the block for buyers with more than two non-payer strikes in a years time.

I agree with this advise above 100%, in addition, I have the option if there are watches to send an offer. So, just because I list fixed price I do have some more options. When I send an offer I can even check no counter offers.

Good luck

ddeb6884 · ‎12-31-2021

How is it that you can offer a watcher I tried to find out how to do that but I can’t find it. I just had some smart Alec say something to me about I’m a hypocrite because I’ve got a 51 feedback. She has no feedback so there must be scammers on this too! Thanks for the advice I appreciate it. IT had been years when I came back to EBay. So many changes. It’s like learning all over again.

ddeb6884 · ‎12-31-2021

I agree with you. Thanks for the advice.

simba6 · ‎12-31-2021

It's a form of work from home for shop lifters.

ddeb6884 · ‎12-31-2021

Lol you are right!

eddivillecc-0 · ‎12-31-2021

Hey YES IV HAD 90% of my listings hit on by scammers who say they want to buy the product I'm selling only to try and make me send them a $300 EBAY GIFT CARD with the package along with them telling me they want to do the sale outside of ebay and use a separate Pay Pal account! DO NOT FALL FOR THIS! LOOK FOR POOR GRAMMER AND SSIMPLE SPELLING ERRORS. I could understand why someone wouldn't want to do it threw ebay since it takes 3 WEEKS TO GET PAID AND THATS AFTER THE BUYER HAS RECEIVED THE DANG PRODUCT, but no one would ask you to also add a $300 ebay gift card to send to their brother as a present.... come on.

If you think you are being scammed it most likely is you are! TRUST YOUR GUT ALWAYS WHEN ITS TELLING YOU A BUYERS ENERGY IS OFF and report their account to EBAY IMMEDIETLY!

The other issue is there are so many of them online trying to trick new sellers into this and i can see them tricking maybe 10% of eager sellers who get excited about getting their first few hits on products they post only to be tricked into a scam that never ends well for the good guys like us and the bad guys always seem to go unpunished! Id like to see ebay do something about this!

soh.maryl · ‎12-31-2021

If it's been some years since you last sold on eBay, may I suggest that you refresh your information by reading everything in the "Sell" category at the bottom of any eBay page?

Plus reading these Boards frequently can be very enlightening.

You seem to believe there is no consequence for buyers who don't pay. If every single seller cancelled after 4 days of nonpayment, his FVF would be refunded and that buyer would have a strike. Two of those in twelve months and most smart sellers have set their requirements not to deal with that buyer.

A buyer who has not made any purchases in nine years is not suspicious. Lots of people sign up, find something they want, bid, don't get it and then lay dormant for awhile.

So someone actually at eBay told you eBay closes down a buyer after they have had UPI cases against them five times. Have never seen the actual numbers and am wondering if this is accurate or just something they told you to get you off the phone.