posted on December 27, 2000 09:16:18 AM new
Of course there's a way.
Email the bidder and "ask" them not to bid on your auctions. Send a CC to SafeHarbor.
BTDT several times, most recently with someone who was high bidder on an item, didn't pay, got NARU'd, reregistered under anotherh ID (hilariously similar to her former ID), and REBID on the item, which I'd relisted. She'd pulled this at least once before in the 3 days she'd had her new ID. (Unfortunately, that other auction had "Buy it Now" so there was no way for the seller to cancel her "bid" and bar her from further bidding.) Anyway, I emailed her as I described above...then did a bit of checking and found ample evidence that she was the same as my deadbeat, NARU'd bidder, so I went one step further, contacted SafeHarbor again, and they NARU'd her.
posted on December 27, 2000 10:08:07 AM new
Ebay doesn't have anything similar to Yahoo's "blacklist" to block bidders. Ebay allows AOLers to register with only email verification, so a blacklist would not be effective. I could register with 5 different AOL identities and you could blacklist all of them and I could register 5 more.
Yahoo requires credit card verification, but makes little attempt to enforce the rules. I have Yahoo nonpayers with typical feedback of +5 or +6 (12 positive and 6 negative for nonpayment). And some of these are sellers too.
