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How very rude??

azureline** — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:07:18 GMT

Sorry, you are not allowed to purchase this itemThis item is only available to buyers who have not purchased 5 or more items from this seller in the past 10 days.You can contact the seller for more information, or find similar items offered by other sellers.

Re: How very rude??

azureline** — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:08:18 GMT

i have never seen this before, what is the deal?

Re: How very rude??

debra9275 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:15:06 GMT

Az, it's nothing personal, The seller has a block in place just in case someone tries to sabotage their account. If you contact the seller & let them know you want to purchase something, they will be able to exempt you from the block, I'ts just a general block set up from the seller's site preferences

Re: How very rude??

azureline** — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:21:49 GMT

Won't that then allow them to know I am willing to bid more though?

It gave me a shock to see it. Thanks for explaining 🙂

Re: How very rude??

rabbitearbandicoot — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:28:22 GMT

you lose a few keys do you azure?

Re: How very rude??

azureline** — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:30:16 GMT

no, I was buying for someone else. 🙂 not everything I buy is for me.

Re: How very rude??

debra9275 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:12:53 GMT

Won't that then allow them to know I am willing to bid more though?

It gave me a shock to see it. Thanks for explaining 🙂

no, they will just see that this is a person who's bought from them before & all is well & they'll exempt you from the block

Re: How very rude??

motherbear2003 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:12:11 GMT

I have the same block in place:-)

Re: How very rude??

motherbear2003 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:12:57 GMT

Correction - my block is 10 items in 10 days:8}

Re: How very rude??

annies_fancy_dress — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:54:33 GMT

Yes, I have blocks for over ten items too, buyers just send a message and I exempt them. Easy Peasy.

Re: How very rude??

happyshopping20091118 — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:10:16 GMT

Hey,it is setup by seller.You only could get contact with the seller.

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bsal6160 — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:03:55 GMT

Had the same announcement come my once when trying to bid on a $500 vase. Just to say i didnt end up buying it and the seller is now on my list of DONT BUY FROM.

I didnt even bother trying to contact seller to get me off his/her block list.

Didnt want to take my money so spent it elsewhere, probably one of their competitors.

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*bad*angel* — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 05:52:38 GMT

bsal6160 why would you do that? It's not personal against you, it's to protect sellers from buyers who want to auction bomb them and is a quite reasonable block.

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bsal6160 — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 06:03:41 GMT

Why you ask...well obviously the seller doesnt want my business so I am only to happy to oblige them by spending my money elsewhere and also, to much hassle for a buyer to have to contact a seller just to make a bid. If a seller has this type of block setup then they are not too keen on getting new business. Most of the items I buy are not your cheap, junk $5.00 ones but rather antiques worth 100's$ and once in a while 1,000s$. So for me to have to contact a seller before bidding so i can spend my money.....forget it, i will go elsewhere.

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*bad*angel* — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 06:18:29 GMT

Fair enough, I only asked because you seem to be taking this personally as a slight against you instead of understanding the process. You're of course free to spend your money where you choose 🙂

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austeam — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 07:27:18 GMT

My block is: Are currently winning or have bought 10 of my items in the last 10 days and have a feedback score of 5 or lower

However, I set this up on eBay's advice because on 2 occassions someone created a new ID and bought EVERYTHING I had listed. Needless to say they never paid. eBay were kind enough to reimburse me the fees, but after the second time I had to put blocks in place.

After purchasing 10 items from me hopefully the genuine buyer will be so impressed with my items and service that they will be prepared to come back after 10 days

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flotsam-jetsom — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 08:23:48 GMT

😮 ?:|

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azureline** — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 08:28:11 GMT

Thank you, I had never seen this before and it caused me to miss out on the item because I got the message after confirm bid.

I understand the reasoning but I have a large feedback myself so was a bit surprised by it.

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austeam — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:01:15 GMT

It might be worth sending a message to the seller as they might not realise that they have it set-up that way. It might also have been a glitch.

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tonalidesigns — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:12:45 GMT

This is one of the blocks I am progressively removing - not even sure why I wanted it there in the first place.

Yes, there is the possibility that someone wanting to cause a problem might buy 5 or 10 items off me - but there is also the possibility that someone might want to actually buy stuff as well.

And if someone IS hell bent on malicious buying all they need is a few different ID's anyway.

I'd rather risk the problems of mischievous buyers (that can generally be sorted out - usually they don't pay anyway so that is easy) than risk losing very good repeat business which may be lost forever under the blocks.