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

[vintage-emporium-jedburgh]

Nope it not us who allow poor buyer behaviour  ,its ebays lack of enforcement 

[vintage-emporium-jedburgh]

Your blocked list means not a jot to other sellers! Your  poor buyers can continue causing problems to the rest of ebay with little or no restrictions 

[vintage-emporium-jedburgh]

we have multiple  ids we dont have the  time  or inclination  to add every ebay nutter we come  across to every block list

[vinylscot]

Your two responses to my post make no sense at all.

Nobody disagrees that eBay could do a lot more to improve buyer behaviour. Why should I not do something which may reduce my exposure to that poor buyer behaviour?

My blocked bidder list is obviously for my benefit exclusively. To be frank, that's what concerns me most. Again, why should I not do something which may reduce my exposure to future abuse or inconvenience?

I add a new member to my list less often than once a week - the "baddies" are a tiny minority. It is not at all time-consuming, and, as far as I am concerned, it is time well spent.

[vintage-emporium-jedburgh]

Indeed Blocking a buyer can have  a detrimental result

as they can register another alternative id with ease and be vindictive if they wish

[vintage-emporium-jedburgh]

Anyhow These days even poor buyers are in short supply😂

[gjalp]

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@vintage-emporium-jedburgh wrote:

we have multiple  ids we dont have the  time  or inclination  to add every ebay nutter we come  across to every block list

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I add them to all IDs. Copy and paste job, scrolling through the IDs 😂 doesn’t take long to log in and out

[vintage-emporium-jedburgh]

Waste of effort

we dont have  a blocked list to copy and paste to

only an exemption list to our buyer restrictions