Guess who won 4 of my coins on eBay?

Wow. Banhammer. Nice.

 

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Way to go, Eliot Ness. One for the good guys!

 

Well, I'll be...... a baby step is certainly better than no step.

 

Funny that it took a phone call (in all likelihood) to get eBay moving. Either that or 20 unpaid sellers is the new limit.

 

And will probably just have a new account by the end of the week anyway....sigh

 

Maybe. I'm not sure if they will let you set up a new account using the same IP address of the suspended account or if all it takes is a new email address...

 

Hopefully they banned her IP address .

 

In most cases this won't be enough and I doubt they'd do that...

 

Still, this feels like a small victory.

 

That only stops the very least knowledgeable, laziest and unluckiest offenders.

I might be able to get "a new IP address" for every machine in the house by rebooting my cable modem.

I know I get "a new IP address" for my phone or laptop any time I walk into a new public WiFi hotspot. Nearly every hotspot or home router uses "network address translation", where every machine using it appears to the rest of the internet with the same address. So, someone checking my IP address might be able to tell that I'm on a machine in my house, or a machine at the grocery store, or a machine at the library, but that's all.

 

A small victory is always better than another small defeat. Thanks for making it happen!

 

Not in North Carolina..........

 

Still big. Still hairy. It's North Carolina we are talking about

 

Do NOT get me started.

When I started a new job at the beginning of April, they wanted to see a Social Security card or a birth certificate, and neither one was where it was supposed to be. I eventually got a new SS card, but I hadn't yet gotten around to getting a replacement birth certificate when HB2 passed.

It takes at least a week or so to get a replacement birth certificate. Believe me, that's a long time to hold it.

 

That's why I have buyer restrictions on my listings. Haven't had a bad apple since I turned those on

 

An eBay miracle...

 

What kind of buyer restrictions, just out of curiosity?

 

They give you some ability to block buyers that have a certain number of unpaid items over a certain period of time, where their shipping address is, policy violations ect. It weeds out some of the bigger offenders

 

I'd almost (almost) like to think it the latter and not that you, out of all the people she's stiffed, were the first to actually pick up the telephone.

 

Yes, but they must have already had TWO unpaid item strikes. In other words, you can not honor your contract and escape detection. You must be a serial deadbeat for the software to do any good. These are very rare.

It is the buyers that haven't met the threshold that have been a thorn in my side, like the one who claimed his "sun" (sic) made the purchase on his cell phone despite having sent me a message the day before that he would pay (at a time when his "sun" (i.e. son) would have been in school). Such BS.