posted on April 2, 2002 03:18:26 PM
Me and my seller friends soemtimes exchange list of bidders that are either deadbeats, or paid but was such a hassle that their business isnt welcomed anymore. Well this bidder must have been on one of my seller friends blacklist for I have no idea why he was blacklisted. first i get this email...
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hi please e-maile me and let me know you should sell me the rare item and the reson
that you blocked me from bidding like i said i have never gave any negitive
feedback to anyone nor have i been sent any negitive feedback if feel that if
you dont give me an explination on why you blocked my bid and i know i would
have been the highest bidder and compinsate me by selling me the item then i
will go to ebay and let them know what happened and see what they will do i do
not want it to go that far but if you do not take care of this situation then i
will go to ebay
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uh, isnt it a violation of ebay's TOS to sell off the net? Since I have no idea which seller told me to blacklist him, I went about answering questions and sending out EOA and totals. then 30 minutes later I get this..
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just wandering when you are going to reply about why you would not except my bid
like i saidif i dont hear from you by friday i will let ebay know what happened
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amd he emails this exact same letter 6 times within 30 minutes! since i am clueless to figure out why someone I know blacklisted him (i emailed some of the seller i know, but most are either vacationing, or stopped selling at ebays, but he does come off as being pushy) i dont know what to do. he is coming off as a spammer now.
but my question is, can you get into trouble for blacklisting someone?
posted on April 2, 2002 03:38:34 PM
I don't know if sharing lists of deadbeats is against eBay's rules or not (I'm pretty sure you can't post a list of them in a public place such as a website), but I do know that sellers can block the bids of anyone that they're uncomfortable dealing with, for any reason.
That bidder's e-mails alone would make me uncomfortable enough to block him.
I probably wouldn't respond to him, but if I did, perhaps there's something in his feedback that would warrant being blocked? That way he doesn't have to know he was "blacklisted".
posted on April 2, 2002 04:07:35 PM
You can block any id you want.
I do the same thing. Other sellers and I let each other know who the bad bidders are. You are not alone in this activity.
You have the id on your list because sellers you know were caused grief by the activities of the id.
My advice - forward all of the emails from this person with full headers to [email protected]. Do not reply to the id. The person is making threats to you. Get the emails from this person to you on file with Safeharbor.
Again, do not respond to the person. If the person has a mental problem, ignoring the emails is the best thing to do.
posted on April 2, 2002 04:15:16 PM
Sharing lists of deadbeats is absolutely NOT against eBay rules, as long as you don't divulge personal information. And there's no need to. All you need is the eBay userid.
As far as indignant mail from blocked bidders goes, I just got one from a (-2) whose bid I'd cancelled. He honestly could not figure out (though I put the reason in the cancellation) why I would cancel his bid. Um, because other sellers have left feedback saying you bid and bid and don't pay?
posted on April 2, 2002 04:29:35 PM
Hi Ironking, I recently blocked someone from bidding on my auctions, they sent an ask this seller a question email, I answered it, they sent another back, I answered it, then they requested I send them more photos next to a ruler so they can actually see the size, then said when I send that back to them they do have a few more questions and I better hurry up because they only bid last minute and there is not much time left. I went right to block this bidder. I did not have any other history with this bidder as a previous bidder, nor did they ever purchase from me before. I did check their feedback I believe it was below 50 quite a bit of multiple purchases, but all of it glowing.There was one Neutral that went something like a hassle pre-sale transaction completed.I might have lost a potential repeat customer but this not the way I want to do business.
I am sure you have the right to block any one you want and your reason being personal. I also believe if you could tell from the tone of their email that this is someone you do not choose to sell to, you do not have to. I believe your only obligation through ebay is to sell to the winning bidder.
Reenie
posted on April 2, 2002 05:04:06 PM
Ironking. If the notice you posted was exactly what the buyer wrote, I would bet that they are either underage or foreign. Just keep reading the email and looking at the typing with out the capital letters that should be there like I instead of i. email is spelled with an e at the end and improper grammer plus spelling errors. That maybe should give you a clue as the reason that they were blocked. Sometimes my spelling and grammer are bad but not that bad. Take a check on the feedback page and see where he is registered from.
posted on April 2, 2002 06:27:11 PM
I have blocked bidders from this message board! There is nothing wrong in blocking someone from bidding, sounds like blocking this one was good. I am about to block a bidder right now!
posted on April 3, 2002 05:00:09 PM
anybody want to share their block bidders lists? I've got a high bidder on a cell phone that that is also bidding up 3 other motorola cell phones, different models. I've had a lot of newbie's (love them but not lately) that bid and bid and then just disapeer. I'll share the ones I've run across that I don't need to see again!
posted on April 4, 2002 02:12:59 AM
Hi, thanks for everyones advice. this kook emailed me twice again today this time...
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hi i was just checking yet to see if you got my mail let me know why you
blocked me from bidding on this item by fri or i will talk to ebay about this
problem
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and then this..
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hi i am upset that when i went to place the bid it was a xery high bid and went to confirm it stated that you would not except my bid i dont know why i have
never gave anybody negitive feedback and i have never gotten any bad feed back
you can check i know i won the item i put in a 100.00 and you would not exepy
my bid i feel that i should get the item i was the highest bidder please e-mail
me and let me know thanks
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Hmmm, but what if the winning bidder had it protected to 100.03? (:
I guess I should take hotcupoftea's advice and report him to safeharbor I guess. Or maybe I should leave him alone.I mean a email from safeharbor might "rattle" this fellows "cage"? Well, loooking at his email, now I can see WHY someone told me to block him, thats for sure!
posted on April 4, 2002 03:04:00 AM
I often block bidders that come up on this message board as problems.
If it's bad enough for a seller to write 2 paragraphs on to ask others about - then I don't need to have the same issues with the same bidder.
I do not keep any sort of notes why someone gets put on my blocked bidder's list. They got there for a reason, not accidentally and will not be removed.
chc
posted on April 4, 2002 05:07:26 AM
I have no qualms about blocking bidders who either gave me a hard time, gave someone on this board a hard time, or who gave other eBayer's a hard time. There are not many protections on eBay for sellers, and I consider this "preventative maintenance." Who needs the ulcer?
