Ebay need to bring back the ability for sellers to give bad feedback to non paying buyers...I am get

[wonkyvixtrix]

Ebay need to bring the ability for sellers to give bad feedback to non paying buyers...I am getting more and more non payers and no communication from them....I think it would deter people from bidding if they do not intend to pay...Its a big waste of time,,,waiting for the buyer to pay,,,then they dont,,,send another invoice, then another, then sending them a personal email allll to no avail...come on lets get fair here!!!!

[*sparklz*]

Do you open and close the non payer disputes?

Have you got the blocks in place to stop non payers that have been issued strikes?

To put these blocks in place hover your mouse over account in your my eBay page and from the drop down click on Site Preferences then go down the list till you see Buyer requirements and to the right of that click on show then click on edit. From there you can put in place the blocks you want, to stop those you want to block from purchasing from you.

[putney32]

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@wonkyvixtrix wrote:

Ebay need to bring the ability for sellers to give bad feedback to non paying buyers...I am getting more and more non payers and no communication from them....I think it would deter people from bidding if they do not intend to pay...Its a big waste of time,,,waiting for the buyer to pay,,,then they dont,,,send another invoice, then another, then sending them a personal email allll to no avail...come on lets get fair here!!!!

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oh no they do not.

if you open / close disputes and have your preferences set to block bidders with more than 1 dispute against them, they'll soon have nothing to bid on.

please do the right thing, a neg. does not warn a Seller, certainly not a seller with Buy it Now items,  a strike from a non payer dispute DOES.

[gobigone2011]

Hi Putney, Unfortunately you can only block bidders who have 2 or more unpaid strikes.

Not much liking this policy too OP so you are not alone.

[no_tv*10]

It would be great if buyers got a star rating for payments etc!! I have had a heap of "new buyers" buy items that have been rejected by my non payment strike blocks...within minutes of it. I think most buyers know they can just open a new account when stopped from bidding now!

[lyndal1838]

You can report a buyer who has opened a new account in order to avoid buyer blocks.  Just report them to ebay.

Unless the requirements have changed you can block buyers who have had more than 1 strike in the last 12 months.  That will catch buyers who really are serial non payers.

[viewmont1071]

T o address the ops opening statement rather than heading off on a tangent ......ie.... mumble mumble mumble blocks as above^^^

If ebay marked a  buyers feedback when a NPB dispute was  finalized on the item with $ non paying bidder   then the OP would be happy, the strike would be issued and the lookers could look and the blockers could block serial non paying bidders (no matter how many accounts they had)

would stand out like the dog's proverbials

.....and wait for it threads like this would not exist.....

The " $NPB mark" would encourage those that at the moment may leave negative positive feedback but not open disputes to actually open a dispute so that  the within ebay policy "mark" could be left........

What do you think about that idea OP rather than bringing back negative feedback let ebay leave appropriate NPB feedback upon closure of a NPB dispute in the sellers favour ?????

[viewmont1071]

The non paying bidder on the thread below has an estimated 280 plus strikes in a month???????

the mark $ non paying bidder   would either highlight ebays diligance in protecting sellers or the indifference....simple.... the bottom thread shows that the OP is not Robinson Crusoe when imploring ebay that something needs to be done.

The very fact that sellers still ask  why they cannot leave negative feedback 4 odd years after that privelige has been taken away

highlights ebays poor stance on education of sellers and by the law of averages also gives an insight into the actual amount of

sellers that left "reatalitory" feedback is an insignificant amount

http://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Selling/why-can-t-sellers-leave-negative-feedback-for-non-payers/m-p...

http://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Selling/Should-sellers-be-able-to-leave-negative-feedback-for-non/m-...

[ojimon]

If we can't leave feedback, I'd like to know why eBay won't at least include Unpaid Item Strikes in a bidder's visible feedback?  After all, these strikes aren't unjustified, unverified retaliatory negative feedback from vindictive, dishonorable sellers.  As a seller, when I've gone through eBay's form UPI process ... I've now wasted an entire additional week BEYOND the wasted week of the auction waiting for some response from the bidder, just so that the system could formally declare that the UPI was EARNED ... and now eBay just assures me (and all other sellers) all that it is "keeping track" of that bidder's strike for us, behind the scenes somewhere.  There's no transparency.  How do I know that the entire UPI system isn't completely bogus?  That eBay isn't assuring me that it's assigned the strike, while doing nothing at all?

On top of this, I'm told that I'm protected as a seller because I can "block bidders" by setting certain requirements.  But I'm not actually allowed to set the requirements I want to set.  For example, I don't want to let bidders with ANY unpaid item strikes waste my time by bidding on my items ... but eBay won't let me block bidders with fewer than 2 unpaid strikes (and now I read that it's fairly easy for bidders to have strikes removed by eBay if they complain about them, so I guess it was DOUBLY a waste of my time to wait a week to be able to get those strikes ... which is probably why a lot of sellers don't bother, and just cancel the transactions instead ... which means most non-paying bidders never even get strikes at all ... which makes the "blocking" system TRIPLY useless as "protection" for sellers).  

I also don't want to let bidders with fewer than 3 verified completed transactions bid on my items, but eBay doesn't give me the option of blocking bidders with less than -1 negative feedback.  Which doesn't even make sense, because exactly how could a bidder even GET less than -1 negative feedback, when bidders can't be GIVEN negative feedback?!?!  This is a completely bogus and meaningless block that, again, provides ZERO protection for sellers!!!

I have been selling and buying on eBay for a very long time ... not as a power seller, just as an individual who, a few times a year, finds some high-end items in a closet that it's time to part with.  I have never, in at least 15 years on eBay, ever run into a non-paying bidder.  Last week, I had two.  I had no idea until today that eBay had made it impossible for sellers to leave negative feedback for buyers.  Now, having gone through the UPI process, I completely understand why I and so many others are experiencing this ... there is no real protection anymore for sellers because there is no VERIFIABLE, TRANSPARENT cost to a buyer for simply not completing a transaction.  No visible strike.  Nothing but 100% positive feedback ratings.  I had no idea eBay's feedback system had become so utterly meaningless.   How disappointing.

Thank goodness I have only a few more things to sell ... I'll look around to see if there are specialty sites related to those objects that might be more fair to me as a seller; otherwise, I'll just expect it'll take two or three times as long to sell things off, thanks to non-paying bidders.   But in future, unless something is VERY valuable and collectible, I'll probably just donate and take the tax writeoff instead.

[denhams]

You are joking surely? how does blocking buyers who  "Have received 2 Unpaid Item strike(s) within 1 Month(s)
Have a feedback score of -1 or lower" help the aggrieved seller?