I swear, that’s just my son’s account I use to bid on things I don’t plan to pay for
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In the guy’s defense, his son has good taste in cards.
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I might have to make a dedicated thread for my monthly auctions. This round was rough with this type of nonsense:
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This is specific to ebay UK’s user agreement but I’m sure US has something similar. Won’t make a difference as these people are shameless but this is what it says:
“you enter into a legally binding contract to purchase an item when you commit to buy an item, or if you have the winning bid (or your bid is otherwise accepted);”
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I think that is technically there as well. Ebay just does absolutely nothing at all about non paying buyers. If I were president of the world I would relocate all non-paying buyers to an island and they can transact with one another. 
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what is the reason that this happens so much? They really just change their minds or are they trying to shill bid or something?
Window shopping
New buyer ignorance.
Being a d-bag
Shilling
Bidding on multiple cards and taking the best deal while bailing on the others.
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Buyers remorse is the biggest reason. I’ve had people initially want to cancel, sleep on it and then pay. But most are like these message above and don’t pay.
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Its definitely always interesting reading these posts out of curiosity does anyone ever just say im sorry i shouldn’t of bidded because i really cant afford it? 
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I’m not a religious person, but I like to believe that there is a special place in hell for eBay’s non-paying buyers.
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A compilation of these would make a great video! It boggles the mind
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It’s too bad eBay wouldn’t just charge a $25 fee to a buyer for not paying and another smaller fee for retracting a bid.
The fees could go directly to the seller and the buyer’s only recourse should be disputing it with eBay directly.
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eBay should implement the same policy as pwcc and just ban non payers. Or implement some type of strike system
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The scope of legality in this case only exists within the eBay marketplace. I would love to see eBay actually ban someone… Maybe it’s happened.
Like any contract, we all agree to eBay’s ‘laws’ and ‘penalties’, which I think we’d all agree should include being sacrificed to Kali.
I think there is a strike system? If the seller is willing to wait it out a few days, I think they can file a non-paying buyer strike thing. I don’t think you can view how many strikes a buyer has, but I think there’s a filter in some setting to not allow non-paying buyers to bid on your items (or maybe non-paying buyers with a certain amount of strikes). And maybe some amount of strikes limits your bidding priveleges with Ebay? I’m not 100% sure about all this though.
There is a setting for sellers that if a buyer has 2 or more unpaid items in a 12 month period then you can block them from bidding. Nothing is preventing the user from just making a new account though. The block should be done by shipping address.
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Yes I believe you’re right. You can prevent buyers who have 3 unpaid instances from bidding or buying on your products. I’m not sure how much it actually helps but they also limit the time range of the instances. I feel like the strikes should be permanent or at least give sellers the option that if someone has had 3 paid unpaid instance EVER they can’t buy/bid vs within a 90 day or 6 month period.
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Do I get an E4 discount? $1700 USD paypal lol. Will not bail.
Sounds good until you move into someone’s house where their son bid on Scott’s Delta Zard