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OT: Set your Ebay preferences to avoid deadbeat bidders

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Bosco685

Bosco685

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It should be interesting,I changed from

Block bidders and buyers who have received 2 Unpaid Item strike(s) within 2 month(s)

to now

Block bidders and buyers who have received 2 Unpaid Item strike(s) within 12 month(s)

I went super-aggressive as well on the settings at first when I found this last year, but then backed off a little when I found out how many buyers I was blocking that really do pay. They just had a few bad spots with sellers.

 

I've only had two non-paying bidders afterwards, and oddly enough it was with $.99 books - never the high-end books.

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Flaming_Telepath

Flaming_Telepath

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Great info, thanks for sharing.

 

I have another non-related ebay question I thought I would throw out:

 

Can you block certain sellers from searches?

 

I like to search through original art, but would like to block sellers that continue to have ridiculous buy it now prices.

 

Thanks.

 

I think you can...somebody here was talking about blocking Showcase New England from their seaches...but I have no idea how.

 

Hope that this helped. :insane:

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Flaming_Telepath

Flaming_Telepath

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BTW, anyone know what sort of message or info is presented to a bidder when they attempt to bid and are blocked? Some sort of "sorry, loser!" message I would hope! :devil: But knowing ebay they probably make the seller out to be the bad guy. :tonofbricks:

 

Kiss my arse? (shrug)

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MR.COMICBOOK

MR.COMICBOOK

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It should be interesting,I changed from

Block bidders and buyers who have received 2 Unpaid Item strike(s) within 2 month(s)

to now

Block bidders and buyers who have received 2 Unpaid Item strike(s) within 12 month(s)

I went super-aggressive as well on the settings at first when I found this last year, but then backed off a little when I found out how many buyers I was blocking that really do pay. They just had a few bad spots with sellers.

 

I've only had two non-paying bidders afterwards, and oddly enough it was with $.99 books - never the high-end books.

That`s how it is in real life, rich people won`t think twice about paying $100 dollars,while not rich people will think twice about paying .99 cents.

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