Lots of non paying buyers lately, cant give bad feedback

[phantomchris1984]

I came back to ebay about late august this year to start selling again to clear out my room of the piles of games, movies i never play or watch often. I have sold on ebay before and it has been fine with no troubles.

Now that im back selling again I have noticed some people bidding and winning and then simply not paying. since august i have had 6 non payments, possibly 7, waiting to see if the buyer responds yet or had possibly died of a heart attack at their computer screen, unclear yet.

What is going on. In all my many years of selling i have only had about one non payment. Now im back selling and i have seven in about four months.

These people not paying just simply dont respond, checking their feedback other sellers leave feedback saying they have no payment or response either.

What makes it difficult is that i cant give bad feedback like i could before. All these non payers have all this positive feedback with comments saying they have not payed.

I feel like this is some sort of scam.

Did ebay do this to not scare away customer by having bad feedback. whats the deal. Does ebay ever get rid of these ebayers that occasionally buy but mostly dont pay to get more positive feedback. I doubt ebay would get rid of customer even if they do not pay some times, they want the fees.

I have opened unpaid cases for all these items, wasting my time because the buyers have nothing to fear anymore because there is no bad feedback anymore.

Anyone else notice an increase of non payments recently?.

[collect247]

Oh no you didn't countess,now everyone will know.

[kitschkoven]

I'm sure the people reviving old threads are trying to be courteous by not bothering the regulars and starting new topics about the same old thing... and in the process, bothering the regulars. 😄

Not everyone is au fait with the culture of these particular boards. As a regular visitor/poster/lurker, I personally wouldn't DARE!!!!!! revive an old thread.

[kitschkoven]

... And the rules do change on some issues, which I do note has been pointed out on some of these. But not everyone knows that.

[springyzone]

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@kitschkoven wrote:
... And the rules do change on some issues, which I do note has been pointed out on some of these. But not everyone knows that.

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Exactly. Not every newbie would know that, but the mods certainly must because they trawl through the boards day in and day out,  more than any of us. They could certainly bring the issue to the attention of the managers, you would think. But they don't.

[zir170]

Yep still happening i had 3 in a week have contacted e bay several times for not being able to leave neg feedback been told buyer gets a mark on there acc who see s that

[*tippy*toes*]

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@zir170 wrote:
Yep still happening i had 3 in a week have contacted e bay several times for not being able to leave neg feedback been told buyer gets a mark on there acc who see s that

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Please tell me how you would stop a buyer with negative feedback from bidding in the last 2 seconds of your auctions, or using the BIN option on your other listing? The ONLY time it MIGHT be useful would be if they bid early. Then you would have time to cancel the bid. Apart from that, there is no way to stop them bidding/buying. No amount of negative feedback will stop them. Once they've bought, it's too late.

However, if you have put buyer requirement blocks in place, once they have 2 unpaid strikes on their account, they can't buy from you for 12 months (or whatever duration you set......12 months is the best option). That WILL stop them from buying from you regardless. It won't stop a new non payer, or a one off non payer, but it certainly does stop the serial pests.