highest bidder has non payment reviews

[ange0810]

Hi - what can you do if your highest bidder has a number of non payment reviews but has 100% positive (not sure how)? Thanks in advance 🙂

[enigmabear]

Buyers can only have positives, so if this person has no negs as a seller, they can't have anything but 100%

Many sellers however are for some reason more than happy to STILL give these non-payers a positive green dot which only serves to inflate the non-payers 'good' feedback, whilst leaving a neg comment with a green dot is against eBay policy (so not only are people who choose to do this rewarding the non-paying time wasters,they also risk eBay limiting/banning THEM) rather foolish IMHO

Fingers crossed this serial non-payer here is outbid, if they are, you can add them to your blocked bidders list so they can't make another bid 

[shoppingbag*]

You can block buyers with two or more non payment strikes (unless things have changed) How did you discover that they do not pay? Buyers can only receive positive feedbacks.

[enigmabear]

It sounds as if sellers have left false positives mentioning non payment but awarding a green dot anyway

[padi*0409]

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@ange0810 wrote:

Hi - what can you do if your highest bidder has a number of non payment reviews but has 100% positive (not sure how)? Thanks in advance 🙂

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I'm not a seller, but as I understand it bids can be cancelled by the seller if the seller is worried that the bid could be fraudulent.

I believe that you need to block the bidder before cancelling their bid though.

https://www.ebay.com.au/help/selling/listings/selling-auctions/cancelling-bid?id=4140

https://offer.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?BuyerBlockPreferences

[imastawka]

Oh dear.  I see the top bidder has 58 bid retractions in the last 6 months.

[padi*0409]

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@imastawka wrote:

Oh dear.  I see the top bidder has 58 bid retractions in the last 6 months.

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So much for eBay frowning on excessive retractions Stawks...............

[repentatleisure1952]

Excessive?

58?

Hah...6k retractions in 6 months is the best I have seen.

[countessalmirena]

Have I previously commented with shock on that, tuckcase?

If not, ...

                         

[brerrabbit585]

I'd block them as soon as you possibly can. If you don't they could mess up your auction and the other bidders might walk away and not come back if you relist it. As well as this, instead of being suspicious of another bidder, other potential buyers could end up suspicious of you.