Serious Joy Bidder Threat!!! Any suggestions?

I can't deny having some prankster here in our country. Having the liberty of being anonymous in the internet and all too well doing what you have mentioned in your post, there are alot of those like that in other places as well I guess. I have only sold one item on e-bay and I sold it by meeting up with the buyer's brother who was just around the area. While that item was still on its bidding week, I received some SMS from another buyer but, had no account on e-bay. Though that buyer was insistent on buying the my item, I simply replied that he/she simply had to make an account and post his/her bid. Not another one bidded but only one who was real on buying the item I posted. Maybe they don't read much on your instructions. You can post that buyers with zero feedback should message you first before bidding or, serious bidders only but, they can still bid I don't know if you can call it ignorance. One thing good about bidding is that, as long as one of them is a real buyer, let's say out of the five that bidded for your item, the last two weren't real buyers. The last two bids would be disregarded until you have come back to the price offered by a real buyer, in this case, the third bidder. They'd be notified by ebay when you report that anomaly from those pesky prank bidders which makes their bids invalid.

i sell on ebay, too. i have an idea which may or may not work depending on how many customers you have in the philippines. could you possibly notship to buyers in the philippines? if you do so, this buyer will not annoy you. of course if you have alot of buyers from the philippines, this idea won't work for you. i am sorry to hear about this stressful situation. good luck to you!

I have never been able to get any bids to what I've put on there, so I wouldn't really know what to answer. Unless you can find out that he is honest and has really bought from other people, I think I'd keep reporting him to ebay. Surely they will do something if they get enough complaints on a person.

Hi zweeb, I'm in the area, how would you 'em delivered?

hi there! I'm sorry to hear about your problem with ebay. I get to experience that too, I used to sell stuff in ebay and I get some joybidders too. It's so annoying, they're everywhere, no matter what country you ship to. The bad thing is some are scammers, some are after our financial details and then they'll go from there. Some just do it for fun.. I'm from Philippines, and I used to sell on ebay, it's very frustrating encountering those kind of people. Im here in US now, and soon I'll be selling some stuff too. I'm just busy lately. Just report them to ebay, and make safe transactions. Paypal payments only are the best way to go. Goodluck!

mua hahahahahaha!!!! I have finally build a fortress around all my listing to prevent this oversea phantom bidder from bidding on my list. HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Quite a task to build this wall for every listing but it is well worth it. hehehehe!!!!

You need to tighten up your buyer preferences in your eBay account. You can edit your preferences in your account so as to prevent this happening again. I would suggest that you make sure that you have noted that your buyers have to have a credit card registered, that generally tends to stop a lot of this trouble

you have the right to cancel any bids at any times for any reason. As soon as you suspect something is wrong.. cancel the bids and put them on your blocked bidder list.

i'm sorry that you have to go through this. there are a lot of joy bidders in ebay and i'm afraid ebay isn't doing enough to control these joybidders. hopefully, ebay does something about it. in the meantime, perhaps, you can stop entertaining bidders that are from the philippines. you can also opt to not cancel bids from bidders that have less than 5 positive feedbacks. hope this helps. cheers!!!