Blocking bidders who leave loads of nasty negative feedback

[ninedragons]

Is it ok to put in your listing that you will cancel bids from users who've left a certain number of negative feedbacks, or will eBay cancel the auction in accordance with their Nobody Ever Gets Ripped Off on Ebay schtick?

I had a question from a user who clearly hadn't read the description properly. I looked up his feedback left for others and he has a history of not reading descriptions then trying to extort partial refunds with the threat of negative feedback. I blocked him, and of course he's been sending me rude messages asking why, but in future auctions can I just say in the listing that I will cancel bids from users who make a habit of leaving unjustified negative feedback?

can you not report him to ebay?

He's just being impolite, really. If he were actually being abusive I'd report him.

I realise that now sellers can't leave negative feedback, there are a fair few assholes out there who like to make sellers jump through hoops with things like partial refunds and returns for items that were perfectly accurately described, and I'd just prefer not to do business with them.

I doubt ebay would delete your listing because of it, but then again, ebay don't actually monitor the listings anyway - they simply wait for them to be reported and then delete without even checking them.

I'd be tempted to not put anything in the listing as rules and regs (as such) in listings can put buyers off. I'd simply carry on as you are doing and if you spot a potential buyer you don't like the look of simply cancel their bid and then block them.

Whatt a good idea !!

I had no idea you could do this.

Yeah, Galava, just go to their feedback page and look under the tab of feedback left for others. I only spotted this one because he sent me a question, so I looked him up.

So can you just cancel a bid without giving any indication in your listing about bidders you don't want?

Excellent, will just start deleting the difficult shits.

I don't see why you can't zapp them without prior warning. When feedback worked both ways the idea of truthful FB of a buyer was there for this purpose. Now, we just need to dig a little deeper - 'feedback left for others' is what I always look at.

Cheers for that.

I'm still getting great long ranty emails from him because I blocked him. Thank god I'm not in any sort of financial transaction with him.

Why don't mad people use paragraph breaks? I suppose by this criterium, expatinscotland is the sanest person on MN.

Perhaps you could put something in the listing that says you've been aware of trouble in the past where buyers have not read the descriptions properly, that you expect your buyers to have read the description and that you will not be refunding if the buyer has not read the description properly.