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"within 2 months, the third phase of Buyer Requirements will launch which will allow the seller to limit the number of items that any single buyer can bid on of their own listings within a 10 day period. -- Rob Chestnut, eBay VP of Trust & Safety
source: Jan 27, 2005 "Trust & Safety Town Hall"
http://pages.ebay.com/event/trust/jan2005/index.html
Will you use this?
How aggressively will you use this?
Looking ahead, I can't decide what number of items would be a realistic limit.
I can imagine the damage / backlash from a well-intentioned customer being told
"No thanks, you've already bid enough of my stuff this week".
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who would really use this on a regular basis to warrent the programmers designating time and resources to designing this feature...
no problem, let's alienate the buyer some more....
this is a dumb feature in my opinion, unless someone can explain a real use for it, besides the odd rare occurence of a stalker bidder, I can think of no real use for it.
and IF stalking bidding has gotten this bad as to justify the expense put into this feature, then ebay needs to take a much more serious look at it.
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Will not use it.
chloe
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I always start my auctions at the min price I want for them, so I don't care if anyone purchases everyone I have listed.
Won't use it myself !
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THIRD phase?????
What were the first two?
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Apparently the first two stages are represented by the Seller Preferences which have been added already during the past year.
don't allow bids from:
[] bidders in countries I don't ship to
[] bidders with zero(?) or a net negative feedback rating
[] bidders with 2 or more unpaid item strikes in the last 60(?) days
[] bidders who don't have a PayPal account
Stalker bidders? Yep, that seems to be eBay's stated rationale for adding this.
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It's stuff that ebay should have done in the beginning stages to avoid alot of the dolts bidding that aren't registered anymore. I don't see any point to it now though. Is block bidder broke?
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On this one I can honestly say that they probably listened to their users. Howling for something like this comes up everytime someone gets slammed with hundreds of fake bids, or someone bidding on thousands of auctions and sellers getting stuck with all those listing fees, etc. If ebay were concerned about it's customers they should give back the listing fees AND fvf on NPBs.
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Originally Posted by Empires
It's stuff that eBay should have done in the beginning stages to avoid alot of the dolts bidding that aren't registered anymore. I don't see any point to it now though. Is block bidder broke?
No, the BlockedBidderList feature isn't broken.
I don't see that, or the new "BidQtyPerTenDays" limit, providing an end-game solution though.
Require cc at bidder registration, for verification???
Look at the flak surrounding that issue in the Wagglepop discussion ~~
sellers want protection; buyers say "no way I'd register if I had to put up a cc"
(maybe the issue here was just handing cc info to an 'unkown' site, though)
Remember eBay is supposed to be JUST A VENUE
All the b*tching and whining "protect us! keep the dolt out!" does is give them an EXCUSE to... maybe adopt a policy of requiring new registrants to FIRST secure a PayPal account, and/or become PayPal 'verified'???
As a seller, I've learned to love newbies!
Many of my best sales have been zero, or single-digit, newbies.
They get caught up in bidding, and... cha-ching! BOOM!
Then comes the wave when they get "tricky" & try to snipe... cha-ching!
Look at the feedback rating for the "demanders" and the "post-sale let's revisit the S/H fee" bidders; from what I've seen, most of 'em are in the 20--50 feedback range.
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gee, how come ebya listens to 50 or 60 people whining about stalker bidders...and spends money creating this dorky feature
but won't listen to 17,000 sellers on fees and pricing issues.
editted to add:
for the record I was stalk bidded once
I have had a friend stalked for months before eBay fixed it
and I had buyer who spent 22,000 dollars in 7 days, 4,000.00 was on my stuff......
I worked with her and she paid it all to me in payments over 4 months.
nope, I ain't using it.