Sorry for this question I’ve tried to search for the answer but couldn’t find a thread so wanted to ask if there was a list here of problem Ebay buyers to add to a block list to avoid further issues for others? I’ve had 1 Non paying buyer and 2 attempted scams in the past 3 months so more then happy to contribute to a list and add any problem people that members here have encountered.
In general, maintaining a blacklist is more pain than it’s worth. This hobby used to be a lot smaller so it was easier to monitor the reputation of all the people participating. That also meant that blacklisting someone creates a massive amount of animosity.
Today there are so many people and its so easy to rebrand yourself that a blacklist is both a liability and also less effective.
I think there is a benefit to having a community
block list. But I don’t think a manually curated and public list of people is the way to go. I was brainstorming more crowdsourced/automated approaches, such as allowing users here to upload a block list and then generating a community one based on some parameters.
Another option could be to not publish a list but instead to allow people to add complaints/praise to specific ebay account names which would only be shown if someone searches for that account specifically. The problem is that an anonymous complaint system is easily weaponized