Managing Who Can Bid on Your eBay Listings

There will be times when you want to have the ability to control who can bid on your listings. We are talking more control than the generic buyer requirements that eBay lets you set up for all of your listings. We are talking about the ability to restrict individual eBay user IDs.

If you make money on eBay long enough, there will come a time when you have a customer that you just don’t want buying from you for whatever reason. Maybe they have purchased from you and it was a bad experience, so you don’t want to do business with them again. Or, maybe you have received a question from someone and you are getting a bad feeling about dealing with this individual.

eBay does have a tool that allows you to manage bidders and buyers at an individual user ID level. The block a bidder/buyer page is the place to do this. Please note that you must be set up as an eBay seller to access this page.

With the block a bidder/buyer page, you can list up to 1000 unique eBay user IDs that you don’t want to purchase your products. If you have more than 1000 you want to block, you are either a very large seller, or you don’t like many of your customers!

To remove someone from your blocked bidder/buyer list, simply delete their eBay user ID from the list. Add who you don’t want to sell to, and delete whom you have had a change of heart about. It is as simple as that!

Another option that you have to manage bidders is the Buyer Requirements Exemption List. Please note that you must also be set up as an eBay seller to access this page. (Since you are reading this blog, you know how to sell on eBay, so there is no excuse to not be selling. )

You would utilize the Buyer Requirements Exemption List if you wanted to sell to someone that did not meet the requirements of the global buyer requirements you have set up. A great example of this is you want to sell to someone in a country you don’t normally sell to. For example, the only way to sell to someone in New Zealand is to open up your listings to everyone in the world. We don’t offer our items to the entire world, so when we sell to someone in New Zealand, we have to add them to our Buyer Requirements Exemption List.

For more information on the Buyer Requirements Exemption List, please click here.

For more information on how to block a bidder/buyer, please click here.

These two very useful eBay tools will allow you to have more control over who you sell to and make it that much easier for you to make money on eBay.

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