yeah you do have the ability, and you can block users as well. that is how i do it. but it doesn't help at all when you have multiple people watching your item and sniping it at the end.
Like 99% of the auctions I bid on state they will cancel bids with 0 feedback. I believe you have the ability to cancel bids before the auction ends, so you'd have to keep up with it.
yeah you do have the ability, and you can block users as well. that is how i do it. but it doesn't help at all when you have multiple people watching your item and sniping it at the end.
they could easily allow an option that lets the user set up a minimum number of feedback required before you can bid on an item. or at least make it so that if they have 0 feedback or are registered in the past 30 days (whatever makes that stupid icon show up showing you as a "new user") that you cannot bid until you are authorized by the seller.
that would solve about 99.99% of the problems dealing with non paying bidders.
Which is what just happened to Ichinisan and me.
Setting up buyer requirements
You can specify buyer requirements to manage the types of buyers who can bid on or buy your items. You set up buyer requirements for your listings, you reduce the number of buyers who might make sales a challenge, but you also reduce the number of potential bidders and buyers for your items.
You can specify buyer requirements for all your listings, or you can specify the requirements only for particular listings.
To add buyer requirements to all of your listings:
To add buyer requirements for a specific listing, specify your requirements in the listing form.
- Go to My eBay > Account > Site preferences.
- In the Buyer requirements section, click Show, and then click Edit.
- On the Buyer Requirements page, select your buyer requirements. For example, you might not want to do business with buyers who:
Don't have a PayPal account
Have unpaid items recorded on their account
Are registered in countries you don't ship to
Have reportedly violated eBay policies
Have a negative Feedback score
Are currently winning or have bought a large number of your items in the last 10 days- If you want to apply these settings to all current and future listings, select the Apply above settings to current and future listings check box.
- If you want to prevent blocked buyers from sending you questions about your listings, select the Do not allow blocked buyers to contact me check box. Remember, you also need to add the buyers to your blocked list.
- Click Submit to save your requirements.
the last thing i tried to sell on ebay was a ps4 at launch. i was going to keep it but i won one from taco bell so i figured i'd try to sell it.
last second, a 0 feedback bidder that registered that day was the high bidder and ended that way. i knew i'd never see the money. no communication or anything.
and since there was a very short window to make any money off of them, i just returned it to amazon.
I know you can cancel bids after an auction has finished, as I've been outbid and then won the auction anyway.
you can do the '2nd chance bidder', which i did. but that doesn't mean the 2nd person 'won' the auction. they have 24 hours to accept or decline it. i've never once had a 2nd chance offer accept it.
Nothing to do but open a ticket and wait to close it... Ebay is horrible, can't see how people can use them. I have been burned way too many times.
everyone starts with 0 feedback so I think it's unfair to label 0 feedback people as non-paying.
Just set the item to buy it now with immediate payment required.
I've actually won an auction, despite it ending with me not being the highest bidder. After it ended, the seller (or buyer, idk) canceled or retracted the winning bid and it defaulted to me. It also didn't notify me I had won, so when I checked like 8 or so hours later, the seller was upset I hadn't paid within seconds... Like the auction ended at 4AM, get over it bro. He actually had sent a cancellation request by that time, so I just accepted that.
they could easily allow an option that lets the user set up a minimum number of feedback required before you can bid on an item. or at least make it so that if they have 0 feedback or are registered in the past 30 days (whatever makes that stupid icon show up showing you as a "new user") that you cannot bid until you are authorized by the seller.
that would solve about 99.99% of the problems dealing with non paying bidders.
If you sell as a fixed price listing, you can require immediate payment.
As Ichinisan pointed out there is a system to stop it - you can block non-paying bidders. However it only works if sellers actually report non paying bidders. Don't blame the ebay when it's the sellers community that won't report non paying bidders to ebay.
How do you get a non-zero feedback if you're not allowed to bid?
I believe I banned 0-feedback users from bidding on my stuff. While they're not all bad, I just don't want to deal with them. Then you also get the people that private message you, and try to get you to sell them an item outside of eBay, which is against eBay's ToS. Then you also get the super lowball offers... and I mean the ones that are just offensive. I was selling an EVGA 780 Hydrocopper (comes with a water block from the factory), and some guy offered me $80 saying that he could buy them for about $75 and that made his offer good. I just laughed, told him to "Buy one of those instead", and denied the offer.
I was selling a new, sealed copy of "Conker's Bad Fur Day" (N64) recently. Within a minute or two of listing the auction with starting price of $0.01, already with dozens of bids, a jugalo(tm) marihuana enthusiast offered $50 via the messaging system. It was funny and I knew exactly what he was doing, but I cordially declined. The bare cartridge goes for WAY more than that. Before I could even respond to his question (less than 1 minute), the bids were already well above what he was offering...with 1 week to go. Ultimately, it sold for over $260.
I loved that game.
Where are you getting these n64 games?