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Pre-approve Bidders/Buyers

Limits who can bid on each of your listings

For each of your listings individually, you can create a list of pre-approved bidders who may bid on that item.

Here's how it works:
  • Each pre-approved bidders list specifies the eBay members who can bid on your item.
  • Members not on the list must email you for approval before they can bid on your item.
  • Each pre-approved bidders list only applies to one item, so you can restrict bidding on one of your listings without changing the others.
  • You can add and delete pre-approved bidders until your listing ends.
  • Note:

    You can't restrict an item to pre-approved buyers 12 hours or less before the scheduled listing end date.

Start or edit a pre-approved bidders list.

You can also block specific bidders from all your auctions.

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