What concerns me is the language of “2-5″ UPI. I was always under the impression that 3 strikes and you were out. In other words, I thought 3 UPI strikes = NARU. That language tells me I’m wrong, and that bugs me a little because I planned this being some protection against losing the ability to neg non-payers.

Guess I’ll be all right though, again, this hasn’t been a huge problem for me anyway.

“Have received 2 Unpaid Item strikes in the last 30 days”

You may find that immediate payment was taken off or not applied in Turbo Lister. Two bugs in TL to be aware of. If you have a BIN listing set to immediate payment and then change it to a SIF it removes the check mark against immediate payment. Also you can’t set immediate payment as a default setting, you have to double check every new listing you create. Those caught me out a few times when i first started doing it, but now I’m aware of those problems I know to look out for them when listing.

Haven’t had an NPB since February, makes life sooooo much easier. Last Xmas it got to silly levels of unpaid for items, In January I went Paypal only, then in February immediate payment only. It may not work for everyone, but in my case it made selling on eBay a breeze.

Not necessarily that they are not serious buyers.

Selling and setting up shop here till recent time was very very easy.
One did not even need a credit card to set up shop.
In the process many buyers would get trapped for no fault of theirs and end up getting strikes .

Exactly thats why i feel we would be blocking many good buyers in the process to hit the block sider to the max Here in INDIA.

Also note Sue that buyers from all over the world come to India For A lot for buying These days.
Not all buyers are as versed with Ebay india’s payment system as YOU or an experienced buyer would be .

Lots Of time In confusion , Many genuine buyers do get strikes , for no fault of theirs .

Well it does, but if you accept and offer the immediate payment requirement is bypassed.

non payment is the most serious crime possible on ebay in our opinion,
the most serious penalty should be administered,
public flogging and debters prison, should only be the start of the punishment

People contact you if they really want to bid, that way you can check them out before lifting the block on a specific item.

I cannot see any other way to protect the account now.

Maximum it is.

But as buyers have so much power over sellers now, I have to select only the very best buyers as far as it is in our power to do so.

Don’t I?

Mark

Most of my blocked buyers are registered to countries I don’t ship to. Some of them contact me to say they are living/working in the UK but by the time I add them to my requirements exemption list, around 50% have already bought from someone else. Which is unfortunate but I don’t suppose there’s any practical way for eBay to create a workaround for this.

I’m not entirely sure how the heck they managed to get through BIN without having to pay.

Hitesh back up there at #12 – are there really so many non-paying bidders in India? Why?! I must say my own experiences *buying* from eBay India have been superb; I’ve never met a nicer bunch of sellers.

I am still setting my blocks for non payers to the maximum
the odd good buyer may well be caught in the net
though its a price worth paying,
if my pocket starts to suffer or the list is too large. we may then reconsider

And even if it had been my postal service, two parcels out of several hundred items bought on the internet is still a reasonable failure rate.

I Have filed an UPI though there is no chance I am going to issue a strike and get 3 negs in return with the way the DSRs and seller performance thing works these days
I dare bet dollars to doughnuts the 2 strikes in 12 would have saved me this bother

For me the most useful feature for a long time has been blocking those to countries I don’t ship.