Do you ever feel like ignoring some winning bidders ?

[Mikey]

You're running an auction .......

Getting some bids .....

Maybe you have 4-ish bidders bidding and all have nice or decent feedback ...

Then when the auction runs off in the last second somebody wins with 0 feedback ....

I don't know about you but I wish ebay had a sellers option to ignore that last bid and sell to the next person down on the list if they chose to.

I'm not talking about second chance offers ... Or maybe I am ... But I want to be able to offer the second chance offer immediately after the auction has ended .

[saucerful]

Ugh
I know you can set auctions so that folks with -1 can't bid
and there is another option to stop folks who have 10 or under feedback from bidding on multiple auctions of yours.
But nuthin to stop the zero

best of luck, man

[toys2cool]

yeah i get that feeling, every time I see a bidder with 0 or 1 i assume it's a fake bid

[kryptosmaster]

Even worse when you get outbid by that zero guy.
Happened to me and then the seller got stiffed so she sent me a second chance offer. Unfortunately (for me) she also sent the same second chance offer to EVERYONE who bid so it basically ended up whoever saw it first got to BIN and I got scooped. Wasn't too happy about that.
Rich

[Toy Talk]

I don't understand why someone would place a dummy bid. What is achieved by placing a bid with the intent of never paying?

[johnnystorm]

Happens all the time, I guess there are people out there who just like screwing things up. They'll never allow them to be blocked as everyone would do it and there would be no new bidders coming into Ebay. Everyone was a zero at some point.
Maybe Ebay could institute a policy of some sort where bidders from 0-10 can only bid on auctions under $10.00 or the like until they have a little bit of a track record on paying, maybe minimize the damage the screwballs could do that way.

[Mikey]

The worse thing is when these zero feedback winning bidders don't even contact you.

They bid and that's the end of them .....

No payment ... No contact

You have to wait the normal time until you can file your NPB ...

Then ebay gives them another week to pay ... which they don't ...

Then finally over 2 weeks later you can finally close the case and start over.

It's like they're just ghosts programmed to make you loose time with the push of a button.

[hedrap]

...or how about getting shived by benbarb a few times a week and then have him win your auction...talk about a tough pill to swallow...

[Toy Talk]

I just won and received a Six Million Dollar Man from benbarb. Man that figure brought back some great childhood memories.

[Toy Talk]

Happens all the time, I guess there are people out there who just like screwing things up. They'll never allow them to be blocked as everyone would do it and there would be no new bidders coming into Ebay. Everyone was a zero at some point.
Maybe Ebay could institute a policy of some sort where bidders from 0-10 can only bid on auctions under $10.00 or the like until they have a little bit of a track record on paying, maybe minimize the damage the screwballs could do that way.

I suppose some folks have nothing better to do.