How do you deal with ghost bidders?

[yorky2007]

How do you deal with ghost bidders? I’m getting tired dealing with “people” who bid then don’t respond or  pay.  When you go to their account their is little activity.   Are they actual accounts or scammers?

[kopenhagen5 · Accepted solution]

Non payers with new accounts is not uncommon.

New accounts often don't know the rules of eBay and think they can bid then forget about it if they have lost interest.

With your BIN listings you can choose Immediate payment required, that stops all non payers.

On auctions, you just need to open and close unpaid item cases for all non payers to get your fees back and issuing the non payers with a strike. Then add them to your BBL.

Also set your blocks to weed out serial non payers if you haven't already.