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@jreg-fuchsias wrote:

On our selling id, which runs auctions,  we've seen an increase in scammers, non payers and general timewasters this year. When we investigate these, we invariably find that the bidder is already on our blocked list under one or more different id's.  So they've just used a different account to bid.

 

This costs everyone time and money, us when we fail to spot one and get scammed, and eBay because they lose fees, and we invariably have to move the item to a different platform once its been targetted.

 

Obviously I would prefer it if eBay policed the site better and dealt with these users, but thats a forlorn hope. What could be done, is if a user was on a sellers blocked list, then all the users linked accounts should also be automatically prevented from buying. That is something which could be implemented fairly easily, I'd have thought.

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Hi @jreg-fuchsias ,

Users can be linked based on different information and sometimes there are genuine users in the same household are using the same computers.eBay do check out linked accounts however if users are setting up new accounts with completely different details they can be hard to detect so not all possible scammers can be detected all of the time.

Regards,

Kat