10-22-2012, 05:53 PM
ArtP wrote:
I was gonna say - go to a similar auction - Click - "Sell One like this- edit...
I need to re-list my iPhone 3G tonight maybe. It's been a while since I've sold on eBay and I made the mistake of doing a Buy It Now and forgot my disclaimers.
I guess in Cell Phone and PDA listings - the Buy It Now doesn't disappear until the regular auction bids reach 50% of the Buy It Now price (discourages regular bidders).
I also forgot to put No International Bidders (or contact me first) and No Bidders with feedback less than 10. My main bidder was a guy with Zero feedback who also had bid and was bidding on a number of iPhones in the last few weeks. He had won 2 or 3 but never paid on any of them and was high bidder on mines and a few others until my Buy It Now bidder jumped in.
He (or she) was a Zero feedback bidder from the Ukraine who also bid and won 5 other iPhones
How can eBay let them get away with that?
Everyone on ebay has a right to bid on auctions. You can put restrictions in the text of your listing, but that doesn't block them from bidding.
True blocking can only happen when you originally set up the sale:
Once the bidder bids, you can cancel the bid and put them on you blocked bidder list, but that's about as much control over it as you can have.
All my sales are set up as buy it now only with immediate payment. If they don't pay for it right then, they don't get it.