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people who create accounts to win the bid (and not pay or respond to invoices) on the item your selling because they are selling the same item you are

I've never heard of that.

That sucks.

Do unto others as they've done unto you...

Edit: Tell them this guy on DAKKA DAKKA said it was OK.

I hear Kronk Kronkington does a lot of eBay sniping.

Do the same to them.

Didn't they create the second chance system to stop that exact thing?

 d-usa wrote:
I hear Kronk Kronkington does a lot of eBay sniping.

Allegedly.

To quote the immortal bard* " there is no solution that cannot be solved with the proper application of high explosives."




*Actually some German Guy in a movie said that.

 Rented Tritium wrote:
Didn't they create the second chance system to stop that exact thing?

unfortunately you have to resolve the bid with the winning bidder before you can offer the 2nd chance offer

A lot of sellers put a disclaimer on their items that they will not accept, and thus cancel, any bids made by someone with less than X positive feedback. So, if these fellows are making new/ dummy accounts to do this to your items it should be obvious by their lack of feedback. Of course, someone could do this with a long-standing account. I've seen disclaimers that pretty much say the seller will cancel bids for whatever reason they want, and it's usually followed with a warning that payment must be made within X days or the item will be relisted. Again, being a seller is tough because Ebay tends to side with the buyer, so having the auction end with such a bidder could lead to unwarented negative feedback that could be a hassle to get removed. You might just want to be liberal with canceling bids and blocking buyers.

you can choose to block those without a credit card on file, which tends to weed out these nuisance bidders

(If an account is blocked the CC that is attached to it will be noted, and they won't be able to use it on ebay again, and getting a loads of different CCs is more trouble than most folk are prepared to go to)