How Do You Stop Bots From Bidding On Your Listings?

Title says it all; how do you stop bots from bidding on your listings? Is using the Make An Offer feature a good suggestion? It happens every time and I have to wait 4 days to open a case. It's really getting in the way.

Thanks guys.

How do you know it's bots? Why is 4 days that big of a deal to get your fees back?

concrete said:

How do you know it's bots? Why is 4 days that big of a deal to get your fees back?

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I'm looking for advice not an interrogation. Either bots or scammers. Created on the day of purchase. 0 feedback. Obviously, it's going to interfere with my selling if 4/5 things that I list aren't bought by real people or by scammers.

Can anybody help?

You can do " Immediate payment with paypal required"

keeps the bogus buyers away.

ipwned said:

I'm looking for advice not an interrogation. Either bots or scammers. Created on the day of purchase. 0 feedback. Obviously, it's going to interfere with my selling if 4/5 things that I list aren't bought by real people or by scammers.

Can anybody help?

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You can adjust your buyer requirements, under your account settings. Try setting it so that it requires credit card on file.

I'd kill them if I were you.

Most of the bots don't have any feedback, so you can specify that the people bidding need to have a certain feedback, or that they need to have a PayPal account in order to place a bid in. That should weed out most of the bot activity.

Immediate pay at time of purchase, and set it so they need 1+ feedback to buy.

I had this problem also and require to pay after buy now helped.

What's the point of having a bot with no feedback bidding anyway?

farlack said:

Immediate pay at time of purchase, and set it so they need 1+ feedback to buy.

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1+ feedback is no longer a option or I just can't find it.

Same here i would have killed them but you can take PayPal help to keep the bogus buyers away.

ipwned said:

I'm looking for advice not an interrogation. Can anybody help?

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I advise you to adopt a more friendly tone toward the people you are asking for help. We don't HAVE to help. We can haze you instead. Say off-topic, distracting, funny and ridiculous things that make people focus on us and what we say instead of you and the help you claim to want. Posting a question asking for help in a thread is skill that takes time to develop. You have to screw up a few times and learn lessons the hard way before you "get it".

Now, I like to interrogate, and I like it best when I'm interrogating an unwilling suspect that doesn't want to squeal like a pidgeon or rat. So answer the questions people ask you or I'll have to beat you with a rubber hose filled with sand, and then I'll read some of my poetry to you, stuff that I wrote when I was 14 and was really, really stoned. It's deep. REALLY DEEP. It talks about Jesus, and love, and pretzels.

Now. Doesn't eBay give you the option of requiring a minimum number of transactions before someone can bid? I would think that a "bot bidder" isn't going to have a fully-developed account.

Also, I'm curious as to why someone would do this? Are they trying to get you to send the item with no or fraudulent payment? I would think that at some point eBay would ban the account. What could they gain before that happens?

If I was you I would set limits for who can buy your products. Like for instance you could specify
that the buyer must have some feedback or at least a PayPal account. This will keep the bots and
the bogus buyers out of the way.

ipwned said:

I'm looking for advice not an interrogation. Either bots or scammers. Created on the day of purchase. 0 feedback. Obviously, it's going to interfere with my selling if 4/5 things that I list aren't bought by real people or by scammers.

Can anybody help?

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Kinda matters if it is bots or people. If you are worried about getting your fees back in less than 4 days then you are focused on the wrong thing.

Look guy's, ipwned did not give any info as to why and it should not be of any ones concern as to.

He was asking a simple question and it was answered a whole bunch of times. Maybe his account is new and he got only 10 listings available. A bogus buy would throw a wrench in his gears - at least for a while till a case can be opened and closed.

Maybe he is undercutting a competitor majorly and bogus buys are the result of that.
There are many reasons as to why.

Give it a rest

Norman Bates said:

I'd kill them if I were you.

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Yes kill them they need to die