Do blocked bidders stay blocked when they change their IDs?

porto_bello

I won't bore everyone with the detail, but in the past, a particular seller sent me a confrontational email, demanding that I immediately sell all my items that they wanted to them, for their starting prices, so they could sell them at a higher price.

They don't like competition, and undoubtedly would be trouble, so I simply blocked them, which led to another confrontational email. I also noticed that they keep changing their ID, so whenever I list the kind of items that they sell, I update my blocked bidder list with their latest ID.

This seems to work - though I have got another confrontational email, demanding to know what I am doing by blocking them from buying. I ignored this too.

My question is, do I have to update my blocked bidder list, whenever they change their ID? Or is the blocked bidder system smart enough to automatically keep blocking a bidder when they change their ID?

Sorry if this has been asked before!

Crowqueen

I believe so, as long as it's a change of name on the old account.

porto_bello

To explain, yes, it's the same account. They just keep changing their ID ... I wonder why?!

I should also add that I've tried asking eBay, but I haven't got an answer - I just get the standard reply, telling me how to go about blocking a bidder.

Obviously, it would be helpful to know that once I have blocked an account with a certain name, the eBay account is then permanently blocked, no matter how many times they change their ID.

Abbafan1972

How rude of them op. :eek: I hope you told them to do one.

porto_bello

Abbafan1972 wrote: »

How rude of them op. :eek: I hope you told them to do one.

That was exactly my first thought! But on reflection, I thought I would just politely refuse and avoid any contact with them - or try to.:)

It strikes me that they aren't used to hearing 'no' and might go to the lengths of opening a new account, just to be able to buy items from their competition and then leave negative feedback!:mad:

That way the more competititive seller gets rotten feedback and becomes less attractive with alarming feedback comments - I've known this to happen on Amazon, so I'm sure it's possible on eBay.

By the way Abbafan, let me take this opportunity to say 'Arrival' is an absolute classic!;)

porto_bello

bullau wrote: »

You tried using this fool to your advantage?

Sounds like you are doing all of the selling and at far less than the other party.

Stop selling the item, let prices rise or atleast let him list at double the price.

When ready list the items yourself, to end say 5-10 mins before the other sellers. Up your sale price and it should still be ok when you are still the cheapest option.

Failing that, just up the sale price anyway, see what this fool is willing to go upto.

You've jumped to the wrong conclusion, I'm afraid. All this seller buys and sells is promotional DVDs in cardboard sleeve - the type you get free in the newspapers.:)

My parents occasionally give me their unwanted DVDs to sell and I give them the profits, but this isn't really my field, so my parents are happy for them to go for a few quid per set and sometimes they are pleasantly surprised by what they sell for. As you suggest, I usually wait for a few months before listing them, so new, complete sets are rare by the time I list.;)

Anyway, this seller madly goes around trying to snap up everybody else's, to leave just theirs on sale, but as far as I can tell, they often have trouble selling them on for a profit!

At the moment, they are madly buying up everyone else's sets of the Cliff Richard DVD series in the Daily Mail for around £4.50 and selling them on for £4.99 post free. But when you add on eBay's 10% and paypal fees (even if they are posting them for free, from work), they have to be making a loss on every one!:rotfl: