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How big is your Blocked Bidder list?
 

Just curious, I share between stealth accounts. Look at competitors who get bad ratings, etc. I have done quite and extensive job of keeping away undesirable customers. How big is your blocked bidder list?

I only have 3 or 4 on each stealth accounts at the most, some have none at all though.

Mine is not big enough, this months list almost doubled, no joke. Almost 40-45.

I gave up and stopped adding?

doesn't seem to do much good... much like adding buyer requirements..... futile...

Checked a few accounts of mine...some have 0...some have double digits in the 20s.

Really matters on which market the account is geared for I would say. Not a big thing really.

are you sharing blocked bidders lists across accounts? Wouldn't that allow you to be linked

I've never had a block list, so all my stealths have 0.

Empty blocked lists. Wow, you are some lucky people. I can understand on ste/alth accounts, but on any account that I have that is long standing with hundreds or thousands of feedback, you better believe my blocked lists are extensive. Walled gardens, protecting my money trees.

In my main area of selling I have a nice list.

I mix them up a bit so they dont repeat from account to account.

Esp those idiots who try to bait and switch 500.00 items on me.

Like the one I just destroyed with video proof of my packing an item and unpacking of the pc of crap he sent me back.....

:clap:

Yup. He is now blocked across the board on all my better accounts so he made the deans list.

you would think that after a stunt like that that he would be banned for life

You would think but of course ebay loves those scammers who want to buy a mint expensive item and return you a piece of crap worth nothing and want the money and the mint item for free.

This idiot also threatened a negative so I asked him. Are you really threatening me with a negative? Of course he said yes.

I had to send him to TOS that a buyer cannot threaten a negative.

When he found I had a video of his scam job I would had loved to be a fly on his wall.

Just for those who sell expensive items.

I have a tri pod and camera set up to video the packing and boxing of all items.

It is of course not showing me but my arms, hands etc wrapping, packing and the item and taping the box.

If a return like this happens, I turn it back on and repeat it.

It worked for me and one scam artist just got owned.

I have a written list of thieves and liars that I've had for years...they come back and still do their thing on my newer accts.
I have had the same blocked names on countless accts. They do not link.

But when a buyer changes their ebay name the new name appears in it's place in your blocked list. That's in every blocked list, all across every acct you ever typed the old name in!!

I add the idiots that leave me negative feedback for ever trying to coming back and buying from me. However, I don't think they would ever come back given they weren't happy the first time. Probably waste of time, but it makes me feel good lol.

Mine is an obituary list.

Once only mention in despatches.

Repel ALL invaders.

:rip:

I had a guy in NJ who I blocked tell me you can block me all you want but my wife and my kids all have accounts so you cannot stop me from getting my item.

LOL

I pulled the auction. He never got HIS item. :clap: He thought it was his even before the auction ended.

Non paying buyer many times over on other accounts and on this one paid 2 weeks after auction ended so I blocked him.


Relisted a few weeks later with a BIN only and sold it to someone else.

:yar:

Yea, Sandy

I have had a few situations similar to that myself. A buyer just bugged me so much and I knew they were going to be problematic. I just pulled the listings and re-listed it on another account a few weeks later.

By all means I do everything I can to avoid buyers who are going to waste my time with returns, negatives, or just complain or ask me a million questions. My margins aren't high enough to care about these buyers. I normally just don't say anything. But in a few situations I have told them to buy from someone else and be their problem. Not mine.

There definitely are crazy eBayers. I had one buyer buy an Authentic piece of clothing. Message me saying I sent them the wrong size. They sent me back a China ⊗⊗⊗⊗ completely different than I had send them. You never know what kind of stunts eBayers are going to try and pull.

I have a master block list (a notebook) full of 630+ buyers, sellers and bidders. I wish I had time to add each one to a stealth account by hand, but obviously, I do not. When I have the time, I add a few here and there to stealth accounts until I have completed the list.

630, good lord :eek:

^^^agree there, MM78

Santo cielo

:juggle:

Yeah, I was running a few accounts before I met this forum and this was when people just flat out refused to pay or just outright scammed.
I saved the book and just continued to let the list grow.

At first I said forget it and moved on, but it just got so rampant and you would be surprised how many people you can cross reference and avoid the hassle with. :pry:

Bait and switch. The professional buyers do this all day long and make money doing so.

One of the members here sells lots of used clothing and told me they added the measurements from all angles and one of their buyers bought a large group of shirts from them to only tell them, hey, I dont like the way these fit, I will accept them if you send me 50% of the total cost in a refund.

Amazing.

Make it 631, add MM78.........


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Its a very remote link in my opinion - not something to be worried about. I dont need to share lists between accounts since different accounts, cater to different markets/testing venues. That being said, if someone is REALLY out to get you, he or she will keep opening accounts and pounding your sales. That's the nature of the loser buyers.

Re: How big is your Blocked Bidder list?
 

Like the energize Bunny. Keeps Growing and growing and growing. Gotta be at 600+ on my end. Knock on wood. But I have not had the moronic buyers and shysters buying from me over the past year or so. I do share blocked sellers with a 2 or 3 eBay seller friends. Go figure and knock on wood again but have seem to blocked out many of the problems.

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Professional buyers on ebay are smart. They just keep making those damn buyers accounts and I cannot catch them all.

:p

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I agree 100%. If you were to speak in this "tone" on Etsy you would get half a dozen loops cupcakes telling you that you should "believe the best" or your buyers. The cupcakes confuse service with servility. I am sure some of them would allow their customers to stomp over their bleeding body and eat their children if it enhanced their buying experience.

I have a buyer at the moment very abusive. Tracking shows item delivered but she swears she has not got it. She opened a case and Etsy closed it immediately. I told her to take it up with USPS. Ooooops - USPS will not compensate if they have it down as "delivered."

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Has anybody maxed out the 5,000 buyers on their block list?

I was also curious about what other people do with the buyers that got a number@deleted. example 111111111@deleted so obviously someone has lost their account I would imagine.

I just am not sure to leave them on since I haven't hit 5k. Or take them off. Always wonder about buyers I don't want to deal with who get their accounts reinstated.

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I do not go out searching for people to block because the chance of meeting up with John Doe's bad buyer is so remote but I do have a nice sized BBL.

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I had aholes who messed up computer systems i sold as well new and they tried opening it and doing all sort of **** to it without knowing what or how to do. Sad to say i should have video taped the product and putting it in the box and i would have gotten compensation for my broken computer case the customer sent back after trying to modify it. At least none of the parts were stolen, but it is my last time selling whole systems on Ebay, ill just sell them locally, it is too much work for a little return as a side job. Putting the components together, installing the software and updates, recording serials, packaging and double checking, then now well video taping myself packaging it for 150 profit at most is far from worth it, even for 4 hours of work, the hassle is not worth it.


I just sell small items now, have buyer requirements and do not ship the item unless money is received, i still have alot to learn about dealing with these people and proper eBay practices but i do have products i do need to sell and Ebay sadly has the monopoly.

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@Rost TOO FUNNY!

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I have 1, let you know when I hit 4,999 more!

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not big only out of my laziness.

if there blocked, do they get a message that says there blocked or do your items not come up in the search>?

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For some sellers 5,000 would be their entire buyers availability. Blocking would not be feasible. LOL.

To quote that great line from the Godfather....

Fredo, you are dead to me.

Hit my blocked list and that is where you stay. Couple of times a year I do a random sweep to see if they have been revived.

Only had one.

Plan B worked quickly.

:croc:

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7 bidders, so far..

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So, who exactly do you guys block? Specific people or like people with strikes on their name and do not have a Paypal account?