So usually I update the bad buyer list every month or so because any more than that and not much changes — and then there are that special breed of scammer who are total shakedown artists who are deserving of their own post because they are BATSHIT CRAZY!!!
So I do hope that these are like unicorns and that you will not see them very often in your travels because they are not interested in buying, they are interested in FREEBIES — they will scam and they will lie and they will attempt feedback extortion (which is a TOS violation but these buyers do not care) so here are 4 that even if you are not following my list on a regular basis and haven’t cut and pasted into your own block list — you will want to block these because these people are TOTALLY NUTS and they will seriously attempt (and may succeed depending on who you get at eBay and Paypal to help you with them) in stealing from you. And whatever they are buying is NOT WORTH selling to them — you would have more satisfaction and less frustration just burning your inventory item than you will in selling it to these turds so here they are:
manilasteph – this is a total asshole who will lie and try to steal your product and then will bait and switch the return and will still try to leave you negative feedback (and will even email you and ask if they can return something after leaving negative feedback because not only are they crazy, they want you to help them fuck you over! BE WARNED)
bblh54 – another whacked off her rocker woman — what is it with the crazy women. As a woman, I actually find it offensive that soooo many of the scammers on eBay are women – it makes us all look bad!! So this one is another shakedown artist where she attempts a huge discount after “finding something wrong with it” and then cannot possibly return it and must keep it but must have a huge discount. This one did not leave feedback for me but she has for plenty of other so she is a major STAY AWAY and add to your block list.
flr69 – it is possible that this person is also manilasteph above, IDK for sure. eBay took down both usernames when I spoke with their fraud dept and they don’t tell you what they do with that but since they don’t, this one is worth a mention and a block too since it really isn’t worth it to deal with people who have multiple usernames and scams they are working so just be aware that their behavior was exactly like the other and they were on the same item so very well could be same scammer!
i*have*the*power* – this chick is totally nuts. She will mis-represent the item as something in much worse condition than it was and then attempt to extort you for a HUGE discount “to save you the trouble of return” like another 50% off. She will also leave you bad feedback for not agreeing to her extortion attempts (which you should call eBay and have removed because she is a psycho so wait for her to do all her nonsense and then call and have it removed and report her)
One thing to remember with a lot of these bad buyers as other sites like poshmark, mercari, etsy, etc start to grow more and more – is that these people will magically appear there on your feed too so don’t hesitate — learn how to block people on all of those new sites as well as if they miss you on one, they will get you on another!