E-bay's POSITIVE negative comment

At least report this conkhead as a deadbeat bidder.

 

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Don't blame the buyers for the new feedback policies. Blame the hordes of bad sellers that used the feedback hostage practice as if it were a game they couldn't lose. Unfortunately the good are always caught in the middle, the good buyers were its victims then and the good sellers are its victims now. What I see are sellers getting a taste of what buyers have been experiencing for years.

 

New feedback rules are just a motive to force sellers to leave feedback for buyers... what will happen if buyers will leaving feedback first , then sellers not leaving feedback at all, just like they have done in the past. There will never be an honest feedback system. it has been/ & will be abused. Ozark

 

What they should do is have a third party or something when it comes to leaving feedback on ebay, that they resort too if the normal way doesn't work out. The seller and buyer both tell the sides of the story, and then the third party determines if the buyer deserves a negative or neutral. Would help eliminate retailitory (sp?) feedback, like this. Not as a thing for every transaction, but for the ones where the seller pushes to have it done. But, like almost anything, something like that would have it's flaws, but it would probably work better than the seller only being allowed to leave Positive feedback. Just a suggestion, but I doubt something like this would ever happen.

Phoenix

 

Kind of what I was thinking. But having all those people just to handle disputes would cut into the profit margin so they're just going to suspend the sellers ability to leave neutral or negative.

I have to say though that more often than not, when a buyer gets negative feedback, it's almost always retaliatory. All mine has been. I got a retaliatory negative after I left the the seller a neutral! Right before this all went into effect.

Whenever you're dealing with the public, you may as well expect rough waters. I don't see an easy fix unfortunately.

Thankfully, I've ran into a lot more good, friendly sellers on ebay than bad ones.

 

My sister-in-law sells high end handbags (often in excess of $1,000!) and has had a number of scams run on her... Buyer returned a knock-off instead of the real bag and claimed they were doing so because the bag was a knock-off... Even though it was drop-shipped from the manufacturer...

Lots of other ways to shaft a seller and the customer is NOT always right.
art

 

The only honest feedback is unrestricted, both ways, and the only truely, truely honest feedback is anonymous. I think Ebay is trying to proping up a faulty idea, with a truely bad one. What if checking feedback was only provided at point of sale, once the auction is over. Have the buyer and seller decide, at this point, if they want to do business with each other. All feedback is listed without the sender's user names, or transaction dates. If either decide not to do business, then seller has the option to check out the next bid. Also, a "No Deal" category is tallied to spot the nuisance biders. When the bid proceeds, each party will have one month to leave feedback anonymously. I think it should even go a step farther and not allow a user to view what is written about them. People will be more incline to provide an acurate account what went down, without fear of retributions, or publicly embarrassing another person. You will also no longer see the feedback rating being used as a marketting tool.