eBay - now with no negative feedback for sellers!

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FarFarAway

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So I sold an item on eBay and the idiot who bought it did not read the description properley and wanted a refund.

Fine, I gave him a full refund as soon as he sent the item back

He then had the cheek to give me -'ive feedback....and then I find out that sellers can no longer give negative feedback at all!

WTF! So if your buyer is a f uckwit, you still have to give them positive feedback! How is that fair?

My eBay account is going to be closed after I've sold my last few things there. Frankly I'm disgusted. eBay's never been good but it's usually 'OK' for selling stuff, now they've taken the p1ss
 
That is really disgusting considering that sellers are in more danger than buyers to begin with. Hopefully they get their heads out of their asses and put it back to how it used to be.
 
I had a popup type message come up saying about this when I left feedback yesterday :)

It said that ebay did it in a bid to help customers actually put truthful feedback to sellers without any worry of getting negative feedback from the seller.

I think it sort of helps with the scammers and people who sell information in auctions which look like they are selling the item, not that fair for the proper sellers of ebay tho I guess :(
 
name='equk' said:
It said that ebay did it in a bid to help customers actually put truthful feedback to sellers without any worry of getting negative feedback from the seller.
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If they want to do this they should not let the buyer or seller see the feedback until both parties have posted, then it should become visible. I am sure they could devise a better system.
 
I think that they should do away with comments altogether and just use the rating system. I used to run an ebay shop selling rigs, but packed it in because of the hassle from it. Ebay don't support their customers in any way shape or form, and when I had a few problems, I sent some emails to Ebay, to which I got the useless vanilla replies. It's a joke the way they run that site, they set the rules to be unevenly balanced, take their commission but 'can't' get involved in any disputes!

Ebay is rife with timewasters, bidding on things on impulse and then complaining etc, and the scam gangs. It's just too much grief for sellers nowadays! Mind you, there's plenty of dodgy sellers about too!
 
name='Kempez' said:
So I sold an item on eBay and the idiot who bought it did not read the description properley and wanted a refund.

Fine, I gave him a full refund as soon as he sent the item back

He then had the cheek to give me -'ive feedback....and then I find out that sellers can no longer give negative feedback at all!

WTF! So if your buyer is a f uckwit, you still have to give them positive feedback! How is that fair?

My eBay account is going to be closed after I've sold my last few things there. Frankly I'm disgusted. eBay's never been good but it's usually 'OK' for selling stuff, now they've taken the p1ss
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This is exactly why I closed my ebay account as well as my paypal.
 
Yep - eBay do nothing to help the sellers who are decent sellers and try to help customers. If a buyer buys something on impulse or doesn't read properley then doesn't want it when they get it they can just claim the item is incomplete and give negative or neutral feedback, even if you refund them straight away.

Oh ye, and neutral feedback brings your feedback rating down now too, even though eBay say it shoud not do
 
Wow that sucks big time Kemp. What on earth possessed Ebay to take that approach? I mean surely they know how fickle buyers can be - an item arrives late due to issues beyond your control and they can neg you. Does this apply to non-paying bidders?
 
stupid, stupid and stupid

i'm currently engaged in a long drawn out struggle with a stupid buyer

sold him a phone

he claimed it didnt work

after he paid and got it

lodged a dispute with paypal

paypal charge me the price that he paid, but dont give him it

and order him to send me the phone back before he gets his money

so he sent me a sony-erricson K800i

and got his refund

because paypal automatically refunded it as soon as the parcel's tracking number showed delivered

i'm now trying to get my money/phone back

but alass, no luck as of yet :(
 
name='ionicle' said:
stupid, stupid and stupid

i'm currently engaged in a long drawn out struggle with a stupid buyer

sold him a phone

he claimed it didnt work

after he paid and got it

lodged a dispute with paypal

paypal charge me the price that he paid, but dont give him it

and order him to send me the phone back before he gets his money

so he sent me a sony-erricson K800i

and got his refund

because paypal automatically refunded it as soon as the parcel's tracking number showed delivered

i'm now trying to get my money/phone back

but alass, no luck as of yet :(
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I've heard about a similar scam where the buyer recieves the goods, lodges a dispute with paypal then returns an empty box and also gets a refund when the tracking number reaches delivered status. Flea Bay has prety much become a total joke.
 
name='Nagaru' said:
If they want to do this they should not let the buyer or seller see the feedback until both parties have posted, then it should become visible. I am sure they could devise a better system.
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That would be a better idea :)
 
What they want u to do now then ? Compare the amount of +veness between sellers ?

Would it show 1000 sales 10 +ve remarks ? That`d be 1 sign I guess.
 
eBay's always had that - that's the point

The trouble is that now buyers can leave negative feedback without thinking and sellers can do nothing about it. Oh ye, did I mention that you cannot now withdraw unfair feedback too?
 
That seems daft.

So if u sold me SATA drive as a 3g and I only got it working 1.5g - complained or gave a bad thingy.

THEN to my stupidness I saw the jumper on the drive - I can`t do anything. Cept maybe write another feeback thing to counter it perhaps ?
 
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