I "sold" an item last Wednesday to a member with 0 rating, I hate doing this and if I had seen it earlier, probably would have removed his bid.
Surprised that he stills hasn't paid? Not really.
I check out his bid history, he joined on 4/22, and since then has bid and won over 120 items. Brand new buyer bidding on 120+ items in the first 5 days?
A lot of members give positive feedback once the buyer has paid, and since he is still a 0 I'm going with him not paying for anything yet.
Since we as sellers can't report him until his 7 days have passed, he can basically go and bid on whatever he wants for 7 days, not pay, then have his account cancelled by him or
ebay.
Competitor bidding up others auctions so they flock to his? Someone with too much time on their hand?
I would have thought that maybe just maybe,
ebay would have some rules to prevent this, like...oh I don't know, maybe put a limit on the amount of items buyers can bid on with a 0 rating?
Just once throw the sellers a bone
ebay, ONE TIME!
We all acknowledge that
ebay already knows we as sellers have nowhere else to go and sell, but by not taking care of sellers at all, once there is another outlet they're going to be in huge trouble.
Now, he's also selling high end cards with pics and descriptions he took from someone else's auction. He didn't even bother taking out the other sellers name.
Good job
ebay, stop worrying about ANACS and ICG and make some basic changes that will eliminate a whole lot of fraud on your site.