The number of non-paying buyers has increased enormously by the sound of it. That's probably due to the flexibility eBay gives people who really aren't serious with their bidding or don't realise how time consuming it is for sellers to put up with this rot.

Block these people by all means and of course issue unpaid item reports but I'm not too sure how serious eBay are with their interest in controlling the problem. Have had another couple this week.Done everything right,won't make any difference.

The wheel seems to have turned from a few years ago when sellers were the "nasties" (and there were plenty of them in those days) but it's time eBay had a close look at their feedback policies to BALANCE things.Buyers should not become a protected species.