Rubbish.
When eBay instituted the auto cancellation in May I tried out the NPB thing with a fellow seller (done as an experiment agreed by both of us) I purchased an item, did not pay and I did indeed get a strike on my account along with a message advising ramifications for more than one in a 12 month period (here in AUs)
As for the seller seeing the strikes, they have no need to see them, as lucky said we have our protections in place so visiblity of strikes is superfluous.
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