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<p>[QUOTE="gmarguli, post: 387870, member: 246"]But there are many justifiable reasons why a seller should be able to leave negative feedback for a buyer. Some people think that buyers take all the risk because they are paying and have to hope the seller delivers. In reality, the seller takes most of the risk.</p><p><br /></p><p>Buyers can do chargebacks on their credit cards. The credit card companies are almost always in favor of the buyer. </p><p><br /></p><p>They can do a PayPal dispute saying the items wasn't as described. They can do this LONG after any return privilege has expired. PayPal loves to refund money to the buyer <i>before</i> the seller gets the item back - provided they actually do ever get the item back.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bounced checks and money orders. Yes, both can bounce! </p><p><br /></p><p>Then there is just the buyers who feel everything is owed to them in life. I had a buyer recently who contacted me <i>after</i> the auctions closed. He wanted to wait 6 weeks to pay for them. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>I had another buyer try to return all 20+ coins they won because they were seeing spots on the (brand new) slabs. :headbang:</p><p><br /></p><p>Other buyers who take weeks to pay, only respond after filing a NPB, complain about the S&H charges even though they are clearly listed in the auction, complain that the coin is smaller than they expected (no joke, I've had that complaint more than once), etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>I both buy and sell on eBay and even as a buyer I feel the seller should be able to rate me. If I'm a slow payer and a crackpot, the seller should be able to warn others about me. The eBay feedback system was clearly broken, but rather than fix it, eBay just broke it worse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gmarguli, post: 387870, member: 246"]But there are many justifiable reasons why a seller should be able to leave negative feedback for a buyer. Some people think that buyers take all the risk because they are paying and have to hope the seller delivers. In reality, the seller takes most of the risk. Buyers can do chargebacks on their credit cards. The credit card companies are almost always in favor of the buyer. They can do a PayPal dispute saying the items wasn't as described. They can do this LONG after any return privilege has expired. PayPal loves to refund money to the buyer [i]before[/i] the seller gets the item back - provided they actually do ever get the item back. Bounced checks and money orders. Yes, both can bounce! Then there is just the buyers who feel everything is owed to them in life. I had a buyer recently who contacted me [i]after[/i] the auctions closed. He wanted to wait 6 weeks to pay for them. :eek: I had another buyer try to return all 20+ coins they won because they were seeing spots on the (brand new) slabs. :headbang: Other buyers who take weeks to pay, only respond after filing a NPB, complain about the S&H charges even though they are clearly listed in the auction, complain that the coin is smaller than they expected (no joke, I've had that complaint more than once), etc. I both buy and sell on eBay and even as a buyer I feel the seller should be able to rate me. If I'm a slow payer and a crackpot, the seller should be able to warn others about me. The eBay feedback system was clearly broken, but rather than fix it, eBay just broke it worse.[/QUOTE]
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