eBay sellers split on changes - washingtonpost.com
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So much for knowing the criminals on eBay.
Between posting fees, PayPal fees, and Final Value Fees it's really not worthwhile to sell on Ebay anymore.
Rare, maybe, but when someone buys a CAR and doesn't follow thru, something should be said.
Don't ask. Apparently eBay doesn't want me to talk about it.
That sux.
As a seller with over one thousand positives, I can tell you Ebay sucks.
Nothing but wannabe e-tailers now.
Their fees are too high, and since Paypal buddied up. I cancelled my Paypal.
I use craigslist for both buying and selling.
We bought a car off Ebay (probably our first mistake) and it turned out that there were problems with it. Arizonacarnut was the seller. He is a dealer in Arizona. When we tried to get him to make good, he refused so we posted negative feedback. So instead of trying to make good, he employed some outfit called Squaretrade, paid them some money, and they somehow got the negative feedback removed. Lately, we have noticed he did the same thing to someone else. So as long as there are outfits that can get negative feedback removed from Ebay, then there is no leval playing field.
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Would this be appropriate for either the “Miscellaneous” or “General Interest” pinglists?
Thank you for your consideration :-)
I have made about 3500 buys with 1800 of them with unique sellers and the only negative I have is by a seller retaliating because I panned him for non delivery. I finally threatened to file a Mail Fraud case with the USPS and said I would ask the IRS to investigate him. I had my item in four days. :)
How does E-Bay make its money? (I’ve never used E-Bay.)
This is VERY STUPID.
As someone who is not a high volume seller, it was VERY important to me to HAVE those ratings as a buyer, because it helped establish my credibility as a seller.
Without that, many people won’t have any ratings and there is a dispute process with negative ratings and the vast majority of negative ratings are for SELLERS, anyway, so this change is unnecessary.
It hurts buyers. Now, sellers cannot distinguish between credible and non-credible buyers.
How stupid.
Personally, I have had to resort to giving a negative feedback a handful of times, and everytime, the seller slammed me in a negative feeedback.
2 of the times involved not receiving the product at all, then, after over a month of trying to work with the seller, giving up and posting negative feedback, paypal would investigate and get my money back for me.
The third was when I bought an "As New Demo" dirtbike from a dealer, only to have a POS that looked like it had run the Baja 1000, then performed messenger service on the UN/Hezzbollah Blue Line and then shipped to me.
I didn't buy it through pay pal (funny thing, the dealer didn't accept them), so my only recourse was to post my complaint on numerous motorcycle websites, including one brand specific site that had a dealer feedback section, where my complaint has recieved 18,482 views and 205 posts (until they froze the thread) in the 37 months it's been standing, an all time record.
In that case, the site administrator tried to mediate a solution, and there was 2nd hand input from both sides, but the seller refused to take the bike back or effect repairs, and Ebay wouldn't do anything about it. However, about 1/4 or better of the complaints turn out to be too high or unreasonable expectations from the buyer, who will often start publicly slamming the company as their 1st recourse.
Once these situations have a chance to air themselves out, almost all come to amiable conclusions, with the exception of a few rotten eggs that show up time and time again, and simply don't put a value on credibility.
Muzzling one side's ability to defend or cry fowl will only lead to unscrupulous characters trying to take advantage of honest businessmen, just the same as it would the consumers if the tables were turned.
Post a caveat with each ad; Buyers with more than 1 negative feedback will have their bids removed. Period.
This is a good move. Many sellers who receive and deserve a negative will give the buyer a negative in retaliation. All a buyer has to do is pay and pay promptly. A buyer takes all the risk! Sellers can protect themselves requiring Paypal or checks that they hold before they ship.