@springyzone wrote:
If someone really wanted to cause grief, they could order/pay and then claim not as described by damaging the item or whatever, or just claim not received (if no tracking).
But surely the odds would be low? Does anyone really care that much about an ebay board? I have been on other boards where it has got much more personal & nasty, ebay boards are very refined and calm in comparison.
Yes, if they really wanted to cause grief they could damage items or whatever but just causing a seller the inconvenience of having to open a dispute and have the item out of circulation for 8 days gives them their jollies without any inconvenience to themselves.
If they end up with non paying buyer strikes they just open up another account and wait for the strikes to fall off after 12 months. Very easy to fly under the radar that way but still be annoying to sellers.
The ebay boards of today are very calm compared to a few years ago....it was a jungle out there before Lithium took over.
Since Lithium came on the scene the trouble makers are very quickly bought under control....there have been more members suspended in the last couple of years than there were in the first 10 years combined that I was on ebay.
I guess people are all different.
No matter how much anyone's comments annoyed me, even if they had a real go at me, I can't imagine spending a single cent of my money on them, I draw the line at anything that involves my good money.
I'd probably go the other way-never look at anything that seller had to sell.
But it takes all types I guess.
@lyndal1838 wrote:
I mentioned lurkers purely because there are many of them out there....just look at the kudos given to any poster on the boards........so often there are kudos from members who never actually post.
If posters rub others up the wrong way on a regular basis I would think it could easily come back to bite them. In your case Cats it would have to be lurkers because you have told the regular posters that they are blocked from buying from you.....and you would recognise their IDs anyway.
lol as if any regular posters have used or would use their own ID to purchase from me to be vindicative if I did rub them up the wrong way. That would be kind of stupid.
I betcha I have more lurkers as fans, than foe 
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@springyzone wrote:I guess people are all different.
No matter how much anyone's comments annoyed me, even if they had a real go at me, I can't imagine spending a single cent of my money on them, I draw the line at anything that involves my good money.
I'd probably go the other way-never look at anything that seller had to sell.
But it takes all types I guess.
In my case the attention my account recieved was not through buying activity with the intent to disrupt the business.. The attention was of a very different kind and very strange in nature. As the account was my main source of income, I used to keep a close eye on my traffic figures and where the traffic was coming from.
Before my accidental post on the forums my listings would recieve around 200-300 hits per day on average and figures where reasonably consistent. After my one and only forum post with my main ID, traffic numbers exploded. This was not just forum members having a sticky beak.
Within a couple of days the account was recieving over 1000 hits a day and escalating. Within a week it was over 6000 hits and something had obviously gone viral. Most of the interest was in my feedback which contained selling history at that time, but other aspects of the account where also being viewed. None of this increase in views was translating into sales, so something else had obviously caught peoples attention. My feedback was 100% positive and just the normal boring, good stuff that so many other !00% sellers have, so that was not the answer.
By this stage I was very concerned as graphs of page views where just ridiculous with my previous views small dots compared to the increasing lines each day. In the end I put the account in holiday mode for a couple of weeks to try to stop whatever was happening. This worked to an extent but even twelve months later I was still getting over 1000 views per day so something very strange occured. Most of these views where from overseas, so whatever happened it was not Australian forum users to blame.
I still dont know what happened, but at the time the store was expanding very rapidly and was the second largest in its catagory on Australian ebay and just below turnover figures for a top 100 business. ( This was a number of years ago when you didnt actually need huge figures to be top 100 ). The only thing I can think of is that the ID had come to someones attention and was being studied and dissected by a group of people who where viewing the account a number of times a day. Ebay was all the rage at the time and there was a lot of interest in people starting home based online businesses.
At this time I did very extensive google searches on my ID and listings trying to find the cause of the exteme views. It was interesting to see where my listings had ended up, with clubs and forums around the world sharing links to specific items of interest, but I dont believe this was the cause of the rapid escalation in views.
The account views where never the same after this, but the extra interest did not convert into any extra sales, it just seemed to be benign sticky beaking. I still dont know exactly what happened. All I know is I had to shut my account down and not have any income for a couple of weeks.
We dont know who is lurking on the forums or what their intent is, but it pays to be a little bit carefull when using a selling ID to post.
