How to block a bidder

bartelbe

I got a message about on old toy I'm selling on ebay, asking why do you not ship to Germany? I had a look at the person submitting the question, zero feedback, member for 4 days. I said i don't ship internationally.

It could be the user is legit, but it seem suspect. I would like to be able to block any bid from them, before I get into negative feedback territory. Alas the ebay guides are useless, they just say add to blocked bidder list, without saying where that is.

What is my best course of action?

No_Eye_Deer

Here

http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?BidderBlockLogin&guest=1

Just enter the ID in the box and press Submit.

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bartelbe

Thanks, for some reason I thought that was just a help page, didn't realise it was the block bidder page.

Might be a bit paranoid, but zero feedback made me a bit suspiscious.

sharpy2010

bartelbe wrote: »

Might be a bit paranoid, but zero feedback made me a bit suspiscious.

Everyone has to start somewhere, however, personally I DREAD it when someone with 0 feedback buys one of my items...

plumface

sharpy2010 wrote: »

Everyone has to start somewhere, however, personally I DREAD it when someone with 0 feedback buys one of my items...

Why?
As somebody (Soolin i think,and i agree) mentioned before,zero or low feedback buyers seem to be the the better ones.The real PIA always seem to be buyers with a 100+ feedback!

pulliptears

bartelbe wrote: »

I got a message about on old toy I'm selling on ebay, asking why do you not ship to Germany? I had a look at the person submitting the question, zero feedback, member for 4 days. I said i don't ship internationally.

It could be the user is legit, but it seem suspect. I would like to be able to block any bid from them, before I get into negative feedback territory. Alas the ebay guides are useless, they just say add to blocked bidder list, without saying where that is.

What is my best course of action?

Your best course of action is to block international bidders in your selling preferences

http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?BuyerBlockPreferences

GregtheHammer

plumface wrote: »

Why?
As somebody (Soolin i think,and i agree) mentioned before,zero or low feedback buyers seem to be the the better ones.The real PIA always seem to be buyers with a 100+ feedback!

Absolutely, more problems with buyers with feedback in the 1000s rather than 0

sharpy2010

plumface wrote: »

Why?
As somebody (Soolin i think,and i agree) mentioned before,zero or low feedback buyers seem to be the the better ones.The real PIA always seem to be buyers with a 100+ feedback!

Thats not my experience of it, which is why I said what I did.