For sellers who constantly have to put up with bid snipers, non-paying bidders and other anti-social, timewasting buyers, eBays pre-approved buyer feature is a godsend.
Pre-approving buyers lets you choose in advance who youre going to allow to bid: not by banning people you dont want, but by explicitly allowing people you do want. Anyone who is not on the pre-approved list will have to email you and ask you to let them bid.
While that might sound great, its only really a good idea to do it on very, very high value items. After all, half the point of eBay is that its such an open marketplace if youre going to restrict bidding to a few people, why not just email them to offer the item?
Most buyers will be very upset if they come across an item that they need to be pre-approved to bid in. They almost certainly wont have heard of the rule before, and theyll think this new feature (it must be new if theyve never heard of it, right?) is absolutely terrible. The one time I required pre-approval for an item, someone actually wrote to eBay to complain about the auctions format as if eBay had nothing to do with letting me list that way! The chances are that...
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