Feature Better Handling Of Non-Paying Bidders

Thanks for the explanation, and it makes sense. I won't bother the other guys.

1. Any chance you could allow immediate relist for anyone who marks the top bid as a non paying bidder?
2. After reporting the non paying bidder, I received an email title "Warning Received - False Marketplace Bid". Scared the snot out of me, because I thought I had done something. You may want to put something in there identifying it as a copy, or at least letting the reporter know it wasn't a warning against him.

 

Just a heads up, I did cancel and report the non paying bidder, but it appears that there was no effect on his marketplace rating at all. It's been a week or so, and he has since gotten one positive rating, bringing him to 100%

Here is the user:
https://forums.digitalpoint.com/members/obay.121780/

And the transaction:
https://forums.digitalpoint.com/threads/webmaster-forum-webmaster-forums-us.2690745/

 

I canceled and reported the non paying bidder as per the instructions in this thread and no infraction was received.

 

Ok I can get that. The problem is that he now has a 100% positive rating ( with only on transaction). Other members have no way of telling if someone has been a nonpaying bidder in the past.

 

This is potentially open to abuse. For example, if someone wins an auction, but the seller then says they want more money and the buyer doesn't agree to that. The seller could wait seven days and issue an infraction. There isn't much the buyer can do:

1. Take the infraction.
2. Pay via Instant Pay and probably not receive whatever they "won".
3. Pay via Instant Pay and also send whatever additional money the seller is demanding. Considering the seller isn't honouring the auction, there is no guarantee they will send the files/transfer the domain/whatever.

Then there also is the point that what the auction "winner" might not consider what the seller is demanding additionally to be worth it. After all, a bid was made reflecting what they thought it was worth. It's really not how an auction is supposed to work.

 

What if the auction ends with a winning bid of say $20 and the seller refuses to sell because he doesn't feel it's enough but instead says he wants $50 for the site and the buyer refuses, can the seller then issue a non-paying warning against the bidder who won the auction?

What action can be taken against a seller who refuses to acknowledge the winning bid?

 

Yeah, I get that, the system doesn't allow it, that wasn't really what I was asking, what if the seller refuses to acknowledge the winning bid because he didn't feel it was enough, what action can be taken against him?

 

Exactly.

Imagine a situation (if you need a clearer explanation, Shawn):

1. Member1 lists a domain at no reserve.
2. A couple of members bid and Member2 puts in the highest bid at $20.
3. Auction finishes and Member2 has won it.
4. BUT Member1 starts a conversation with Member2 and tells them that they want more than that for the domain, e.g. $50, even though Member2 has won an Instant Pay auction at $20.

Member2 could say no, but then they open themselves up to the chance of a non-paying infraction. DP cannot force a seller to honour an auction and I understand DP staff/mods don't get involved in "member disputes", but the way you have currently worked the system is flawed and opens it up to being exploited by "dubious" sellers.

 

I don't think it's as complicated as how you make it out to be. If a seller asks for more money than the winning bid, the transaction won't show up in the system. The 'instant pay' only records winning price.

Plus, have you "actually" come across a seller that does that? I'm a seller and I think that scenario is a bit out of place to be honest.

 

Yes "actually" seller @heartnet02 refused to honour @ryan_uk 's winning bid here:
https://forums.digitalpoint.com/thr...ite-profitable-and-evergreen-product.2716146/
so yes it does happen einstein.

 

"so yes it does happen einstein"? Yeah, great, using an insult. Goodbye then.

 

Well what do you expect?
posting assumptions based on what you think help no one, just because it hasn't happened to you doesn't mean it doesn't happen.