zero feedback accounts

[silver-fox-bullion]

hi guys 

After people thoughts on selling to zero feedback accounts on auctions.   I have just had 1 here that i caught that was really set alarm bells off bid on a couple of auctions here.   Has pulled their bids gaven their ebay account was only about 30-40 mins old going off the time of bid 1am 17/8/2020 and the date of account been made 17/8/2020 so the account I guessing had not been fully verified by ebay yet been that long since I made an ebay account I can not even remember what checks etc are done lol.   So alarm bells were ringing with this user and what interesting the buyer has NOT messaged or question the bids being pulled further justifty the bids been pulled to protect myself.

Just wondering what other peoples experiences with these types of accounts that are only less than a hour old or a couple hours ???

cheers guys.

[cezm]

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@*tippy*toes* wrote:

Yes, especially given they are a brand new member, but already know how to retract bids...twice.

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Ahhh I read it as the OP had cancelled the bids because they were made within 30-40 minutes of the buyer joining

[lyndal1838]

The seller did cancel some bids for that reason but he has allowed other bids to stand when the 0 feedback bidder has already retracted bids several times.

Something does not smell right about that to me.

[tazzieterror]

Yeah it's a little a bit of a head-scratcher. In total there have been three zero feedback bidders bidding across the three gold auctions:

Item #...784: A retracted bid & a cancelled bid; the bidder who retracted is still bidding
...513: The retracting bidder from above also bidding here
...266: The other cancelled bid, from the same bidder whose bid was cancelled in 784. Also, a third 0-FB bidder is bidding on this one.

Looks like the one who retracted was wanting to know the current max bid of the current high-bidder on 784.

[*tippy*toes*]

That's how I saw it too. Something smells fishy.

My 0 FB buyer only created the account that day. They bought an item that had been listed for 5 years. I was pretty chuffed about that!

[padi*0409]

I wonder if the OP is aware that bullion (at the moment) is one of the listings that's prohibited under Managed Payments ???? 

[padi*0409]

https://www.ebay.com.au/help/policies/selling-policies/managed-payments-restricted-items-policy?id=5...

[tazzieterror]

I assume the fact that they've been able to list it in that category means they've not signed up to MP at this stage.

[*tippy*toes*]

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@padi*0409 wrote:

I wonder if the OP is aware that bullion (at the moment) is one of the listings that's prohibited under Managed Payments ???? 

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Not everyone has been switched over yet. Myself included. I had an instant payment of nearly $200 yesterday. It could have been in my bank this morning, but I have chosen to leave it in PayPal for now. 

I am still shaking my head about these prohibited listings under managed payments. Like seriously, why are bullion and coins suddenly a bad thing? Not to mention all the other stuff that is suddenly no good any more.

Funny how none of the cheap Chinese carp appears on the list. Nor does pretty much everything the big box retailers on here sell. Yet another way to push out the small sellers.

[tazzieterror]

Also it's a little weird the listing text keeps referring to the seller in the 3rd person.

[silver-fox-bullion]

the seller is a company hence 3rd person lol.   

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@tazzieterror wrote:
Also it's a little weird the listing text keeps referring to the seller in the 3rd person.

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