Discriminating Taste: Using EBay Buyer Requirements To Avoid Unpaid Items
What are Buyer Requirements?
Theyre the controls you use to limit your exposure to questionable buyers. If youve never had trouble with unpaid items and arent worried, you may elect not to use them at all. But if youre concerned about selling something, you can turn up your Requirements Protection and potentially block people that might not pay for the item.
What Kind of Control Do I Have?
According to Clayton Kunz, eBays Trust and Safety policy manager, There are different behavior patterns you, as a seller, might not want to take on. You can set your controls to allow or block buyers that fall into numerous categories:
Buyers with negative feedback.
Buyers who have too many unpaid item strikes recently.
Buyers from places to which you dont ship.
Buyers whove bought too many of your items recently. (This is for purchases you fear are fraudulent, such as someone maliciously trying to take down your listings.)
Buyers who arent registered with PayPal. (This doesnt mean you cant offer other options. Its designed to limit bids to buyers whove been...