eBay

ottmus2 · ‎12-19-2022

can anything other than reporting buyers be done to buyers that bid up and don't pay or respond to messages? Always seems to be a new person recently joined ebay with 0 feedback seems I have had several of these, looks like just trying to get someone to not buy mine and maybe buy theirs, getting old, waste of my time

onefootflipper · ‎12-19-2022

You don't have a single item listed that is better in auction format. Most customers don't look at auctions anymore and most serious sellers rarely use auction format anymore.

If I had your current inventory then every one of those items would be fixed price buy it now.

Do that and you will spend less time on ebay, make more money and the non-paying bidder problem will vanish entirely.

fashunu4eeuh · ‎12-19-2022

The more likely explanation is the buyer is bidding on multiple auctions for the same item, and then buys the cheapest one he wins. And never returns to tell the other auction sellers that he is not going to pay for those winning bids.

But regardless of why, the best way to remove non-payers is by selling fixed price with Immediate Payment Required. Also, set your Buyer Requirements to their strictest settings, which will block serial non-payers from bidding on or buying your items.

soh.maryl · ‎12-19-2022

"reporting" buyers? I hope you mean that you're cancelling, citing "didn't pay" as the reason.

gemarakop_trading · ‎12-19-2022

Yes they can charge a card a penalty if full payment is not made. Make it part of the user agreement. Not sure what would happen with disputes.

luckythewinner · ‎12-19-2022

@ottmus2 wrote:
can anything other than reporting buyers be done to buyers that bid up and don't pay or respond to messages? Always seems to be a new person recently joined ebay with 0 feedback seems I have had several of these, looks like just trying to get someone to not buy mine and maybe buy theirs, getting old, waste of my time

No there is really nothing you can do. And that is why many sellers have stopped running auctions and started using fixed price with immediate payment required.

luckythewinner · ‎12-19-2022

@gemarakop_trading wrote:
Yes they can charge a card a penalty if full payment is not made. Make it part of the user agreement. Not sure what would happen with disputes.

That would just cost those sellers $20 every time a penalty was charged because buyers would just dispute the payment with the card company.

If eBay made me give a credit card to bid, I would stop bidding. I have not paid for about a dozen items in the past 20 years, and every time it was because the SELLER was a deadbeat.