Blocked Bidder List Resource for eBay Sellers
18 June 2008With the new changes to the Feedback system on eBay, there are many sellers that are scrambling to find the best ways to not end up with malicious negative feedback from deadbeat buyers.
One way to do that is to maintain a very updated and extensive blocked bidder list. However, the problem with that is that maintaining it by hand is almost more work than the listing is. You end up taking up a spot on your list with buyers that are not registered any more. In the end, you can’t keep up and really don’t gain anything from your list.
Enter repxchange. It’s an online repository that allows you to report bad buyers to other sellers. The buyers get updated when they become no longer registered. And you can quickly throw together a list of the maximum 5000 blocked bidders. Registered sellers also get access to a search that allows for searching by eBay user id and reports back anything that has been reported on that user.
All in all, this could be a very valuable tool. At some point, eBay will have to find a better way or a new way to fix their feedback as the current system only seems to be getting more and more lopsided. And there doesn’t appear to be much help from eBay for jilted sellers. Maybe repxchange can help out with that.
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July 23rd, 2008 at 5:25 pm
I agree — repexchange is a great way to block bad buyers! Banning bad buyers is a matter of supporting the community that reports them. So go ahead and leave your feedback at repexchange and other third party reporting and exchange sources. Sellers need to band together to block the bad buyers. To that end, I can recommend a few sites to help you block unwanted buyers:
http://www.mermaidmonkey.com/eBayBlockedList.html
Inappropriate trading behavior is a top concern eBay sellers have in the midst of eBay’s radical feedback policy. Sellers fear eBay has opened new doors for buyer extortion and fraud, so take heed and learn from these tips for combating buyer extortion and fraud:
http://www.mermaidmonkey.com/handlingfraud.html
Happy eBaying!
M.C. Nygard
Platinum PowerSeller
August 26th, 2008 at 9:24 am
RepXchange is a worthy attempt at addressing this problem, but there are more than 5,000 potential bad buyers and it’s not a practical solution for most seller’s to put in that amount of manual work.
The simple solution is for eBay to handle all payments and not to not count sales until payment is received and cleared.