Zero feedback - how to stop bidders

Ineedaservant

How do I stop bidders with a zero feedback score bidding / buying my items. I can see the buyer requirements for negative feedback, but not for numbers of feedback.

Many thanks

Stevie_Palimo

They could be new or may have not purchased anything previously so this could be the reason for a zero score, Everyone deserves the benefit of the doubt surely !!!!

shopaholicz

Have a look here

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

https://community.ebay.com/t5/A-Part-time-eBay-Sellers-Group/Need-to-Block-0-feedback-buyers/td-p/2959542

soolin

You can block users with less than 5 feedback if you choose the options of them not having a card registered with ebay, it's in seller preferences. If a buyer does have a card registered then you can't block them automatically at all.

emmbrook

Everyone has to start somewhere - you had a score of zero once upon a time. It doesn't make them a scammer. They may have joined just to buy your item, be a young person who has just started buying their own things, a person who just hasn't tried eBay before, or, like me, be a long time eBay user who has just yesterday opened a separate account to keep buying and selling apart.

MysteryMe

Common sense has to kick in, as already stated everyone had zero feedback. If it's an i phone you are listing fair enough but if it's a signed Des O'Connor photo I'd risk selling to a newbie.

Brywalker

MysteryMe wrote: »

if it's a signed Des O'Connor photo I'd risk selling to a newbie.

But surely the seller would have to pay the buyer to take it

Ineedaservant

Many apologies to all of you kind enough to reply, almost immediately after posting this question an elderly friend of mine had a fall and, among other things, I have taken on his dog till he is out of hospital. This thread went completely out of my mind.

I asked this as I have had a spate of zero feedback in the last couple of weeks, after many years of hardly any. I fully appreciate that even I had to start somewhere!

A few weeks ago, just before an item ended, I had a silly message saying that the item I was selling looked fake. Item didn't sell and I blocked the sender of the message and relisted it. It was bought at the end of the week by someone with zero feedback who had joined a couple of days prior. Even though suspicious, I sent the item and - yes - got an INR. Hence my present downer on zero feedback buyers.

I_have_spoken

My standard advice is look at the buyers address on Google street-view and make a judgement call on whether to send or cancel.

soolin

I_have_spoken wrote: »

My standard advice is look at the buyers address on Google street-view and make a judgement call on whether to send or cancel.

Remember that a cancellation will give you a defect, so be careful.