The Ban Hammer !

[fribblecollectables]

Friday is catch up day . . .  sending invoices to regulars that have built up orders, sticking unsold auctions into Buy It Nows etc.

Its also when some buyers has passed last chance saloon, and even after a reminder they haven't paid.

This week was annoying. Four time wasters totalling over £160.

So . .  . cancel for non-payment, relist, add buyer to list of blocked bidders.

Got me thinking - how many are on that list?

Copy and paste whole list into ChatGPT, ask it to count them, check it again, and the total is . .  . 428 names.

428 non payers. What a waste of time.

No doubt other sellers have more though.

[jckl1957]

I thought I had a lot - I don't use ChatGPT so I did a quick average of how many people are listed per line and then counted the number of lines.

I have about 250.

I block for non-payment, INR or INAD cases, cancelled bids and snarky feedback.

I also (sometimes) block members who post in the forum if they are clearly 'troublesome'.

[vintage-emporium-jedburgh]

Waste of time and  bother banning

you cant stop the tide

[vintage-emporium-jedburgh]

Makes it worse sometimes we have had more than one buyer reacting to a ban 

causing further problems 

[vintage-emporium-jedburgh]

Ebay are quite strict with poor sellers 

yet do little to control poor buyers 

[jonatjonatjonat]

If you've got a comma separated list (which is what the blocked buyers list is) - use https://delim.co/

Paste the comma sep list on the right - then click the left arrow - it'll give you a list on the left. Then just count the rows.

Saves you a chat gpt water hungry request as well.

[vintage-emporium-jedburgh]

You cant fix a leaking roof  with a bucket to catch the drips

Ebay need to do more, its their roof

[fargvs]

--- 'even after a reminder they haven't paid.'

Reminders will only reset the 4 day time limit given to make payment --- just give those timewasters a well deserved Non payment account defect/strike. 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/selling/getting-paid/resolving-unpaid-items-buyers?id=4137

https://www.ebay.co.uk/bmgt/BuyerBlock?

[vintage-emporium-jedburgh]

Sellers placebo ??

 Non paying strikes mean little 

[vinylscot]

I've got 495 on mine. They're not all non-payers. Many are just folk who have proved to be just too much bother - stupid questions, false returns or feedback, etc, etc. I've even added a few when they've been identifiable from posts on here. I'm sure it is just a drop in the ocean, but when the facility is there, I may as well use it.

[vintage-emporium-jedburgh]

We simply set the  bidding restrictions and blocks to maximum

Then  gef on with things

Its upto ebay to police its own site

[vinylscot]

So some individual, not picked up by your blocks,  mucks you about - daft questions, rude or insulting messages, unrealistic postage requests/expectations, late payments (or no payments), false feedback, "swap-out" returns, low-ball offers, etc. - and you just let them do it to you again? 

OK