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I totally second what Kodoku says here and the "cookie-cutter responses" are the main reason why I rarely visit these forums.

So, eBid have no plans to implement an immediate payment option ......

Which is precisely why I chose to pay by Paypal in a Real World store I had never been to before. I'm very fussy about who has my CC details.

Paypal is a huge business, regulated by the FSA and in...

What don't you understand about non-registered buyers being able to use the suggested shopping cart to buy an item instantly?

When this buyer puts something in their shopping cart it is not sold...

Well said Steve.

People don't think about the hidden costs.

LMAO looks like that might be right.



That's what buyers are meant to do, isn't it.

It's what my buyers do before they get struck through.

This does not account for strike throughs that I have seen and I recall Madelaine saying that her Dutch customer was asked to provide a phone number, which is completely unnecessary IMO. Checking...

Oh, yes, as for your buyer, they are hardly likely to contact you if their name has a strike through. How could they? You may never know whether they were genuine or not.

You mention Paypal...

Ok, it's clear that plenty of people here seem to think Paypal is some sort of scam workshop. Personally I have greater trust in Paypal than I do in pretty much all of the other sites where I am...

Surely that applies to sellers not buyers.

Helen and graham makes some very fair points in their looooong post on this page. Paypal is a secure system to use, no-matter how brainwashed some folks...

Surely you don't really need an answer to that? You've read this thread.

Totally agree with you. There is someone I regularly buy from who has their own site but I would still rather buy through eBay and pay with Paypal.

**Thanks for giving the date Tony, I couldn't...

@ adruml you are aware that eBid has been around about as long as eBay, aren't you?

Well, until this issue is sorted out, eBid are losing my links to the site, several hundred of them so it will take a few days to do. I am not sending any more people here to have their usernames...

It would be nice to have some indication of whether they take this seriously.

That's what I reckon because I know I didn't mark any of mine as spam but that's consistently where the majority of the emails from eBid end up.

Precisely. Unregistered buyer / guest buyer, it makes no difference what you call them, basically we are dealing with them anyway because in the majority of cases their ID doesn't get a strike...

Excuse me? What is wrong with finding something amusing?

Oh, how very droll.

People - and problems - don't go away if you ignore them.

In fact, problems tend to multiply.

The problems you highlight with emails to spam are all the more reason that something needs to be done about this and, I respectfully suggest, that the simplest way is to add that extra option at...

I don't think anyone would suggest that someone using false details shouldn't be suspended.

It doesn't require a whole eBid system rewrite, simply the addition of a shopping cart to only be used...

We 'vocal' people may be a small percentage BUT most users are probably blissfully unaware of this problem.

I agree Jane, it's more than a bit harsh to ban someone when eBid are clearly aware of the problem with their emails going to spam.

Almost every day I am having to move emails from eBid out of my...

Now that is interesting and I don't really see why it was your mistake, you are not responsible for what happened and if you had already successfully received several emails then there should have...

Same goes for mine.

I won't give up because of a few trollish members and it isn't like this everywhere. I can't understand why some people don't 'get it' and can only think it's a language barrier thing.

I have been promoting eBid and bringing buyers here for almost five years.

The fact those buyers then become barred means that I have worked for nothing. They are (were) perfectly good buyers,...

For Pete's sake would you please read what the thread is actually about.

It is about the fact that newbie buyers are not getting emails from this site and therefore are getting a strike through...

No, the arguments against which were given were not valid to what was being discussed. If you read the thread from the beginning, you will see that the objections would not apply to 'guest buyers'.
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You can't shill bid when as a guest buyer you can only use buy now and don't have the option to leave feedback.

No-one has suggested that you shouldn't have to have full verification in order to...

This is because, if you rely on the after auction communications, the bidders are not getting them.

I found this out and now contact all my buyers through their own email address. If they were...