Warning, Will Robinson!

[woodwardiocom]

-Someone just used Buy-It-Now to purchase a Magic: The Gathering Time Walk card from me on eBay for beaucoup bucks. However, this person joined eBay yesterday, has a feedback rating of 0, lists their location as United Kingdom, and their email address ends in .cn (China).

-I am not reassured.

-I sent them an invoice, and a personal message, using short sentences, telling them to email me immediately to tell me how they're going to pay. Let's see how this turns out.

Comments

[feoh.livejournal.com]

Can you as the seller decide NOT to sell to a given individual of their details are too shaky?

I would hope so.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

you don't need to ship if you don't recieve the payment, and most sellers I know of (myself included) won't ship until the money is safely in their pocketses. I don't believe you can simply not sell to them because you have a bad feeling about them; by putting it on eBay you do agree to let any other eBay member at least get the benefit of the doubt before that.

[mattlistener.livejournal.com]

I know that, for bidding auctions, if you don't want to sell to the high bidder you have to delete their bid before the auction closes.

For Buy It Now, I don't know. I've seen reference to people using Buy It Now just to get the system to give them an opportunity to leave negative feedback (ie in retaliation over old business).

Does your item description say what the minimum time is in which you require a) first contact from the buyer, and b) cleared payment?

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

Does your item description say what the minimum time is in which you require a) first contact from the buyer, and b) cleared payment?

-Not in specific. (Though "cleared" payment isn't much of an issue; I only accept PayPal and money orders.) However, I will be emailing him every day until I get a response, and if it isn't prompt, he's going right onto my blocked bidders list, which will at least prevent him from interfering with more of my auctions.