Thanks. I am not in the States. I am in the UK . When I say private messaging I meant direct messaging.

So a bundle of clothes which would have been £45 (plus postage etc). They were offering £15 and adking me to do something for them about postage. I have lowest offers set on my items and they were bypassing that by messaging me directly. I even politely asked them to stop and blocked. Minutes later a new account appeared.  This wasn't just 15 minutes of silliness but was two days of messages and purchases one after the other and I was worried about the same today so have put my account on Time Away as it was getting too much yesterday. This wasn't a specific item but a number of items.

I suppose I am a little perplexed that ebay allows the blocking of a user to be bypassed by them creating new accounts one after the other. This isn't possible on other platforms as it gets picked up quite quickly particularly where the same address is used over and over. Surely as a seller I should be able to protect myself from someone who is displaying quite unsettling behaviour.  I absolutely will not put myself in a position where they will then have my personal details.