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Leave negative feedback without fear of recieving a retaliatory negative?
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03-12-2008, 11:34 AM
carnage717
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I have sold thousands and thousands of items on ebay and let me tell you this isn't exactly true. Sure Ebay posts this to make you feel all warm and fuzzy but the real truth is they do very little to protect sellers. For the the people who are just buyers and even those that are just the occasional Ebay seller you have no idea how bad the ebay market really is. I have been selling on there non-stop for 4 years and let me tell you, there are tons and tons of scammers and dirtbag out there just waiting for this feedback change to take affect.
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No protection? This is not true.
a) If they don't pay, you report them to ebay via an unpaid item dispute and they get a strike. Ebay has stated that with the feedback change, they will be getting tougher on non-paying bidders.
Ifve had problems with many buyers who have not paid and have been reported. I have reported lots of buyers who have broken so many of ebay rules they have should have be thrown off of ebay immediately. Want to take a guess on how many got actually banned from ebay!!! Zero!!!! and yes I have checked to see what happens to them.
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b) they can claim they didn't get it, but if you make them pay via paypal and print your labels via paypal, you are protected under their seller protection policy.
Another one Paypal warm and fuzzy policies. I have had several buyers get items who knew what they were getting but swapped out parts of their own and the claimed they got the crappy part instead of the one I sent them. I also can't begin to count the number of email i get a month tell me they havent recieved their items a month after I sent them out and have been delivered. I provide them with the Delivery confirmation number and surprisingly the item mysteriously shows up the next day.
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c) if you see buyers claiming damage as a big problem, require the buyer to purchase insurance (or mix it into your shipping price). That way you're protected regardless of whether or not the buyer is a scammer.
By adding insurance into your shipping price then you will just get hit with a negative because they will complain about high shipping on an item. Its a lose, lose situation by doing something like this.
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Yeah, this is a change and people don't like change. However, as both a buyer and seller, I can see both sides. I like the ability to leave negative feedback without fear of retaliation, but it just means you have to be a really good seller to keep buyers happy. That's kind of how it works in the real world. you can tell everyone you know about your bad experience at store x, but they don't tell all the other retailers "don't sell anything to Fred... he might return it".
In the real world, 9 times out 10 the seller would do just about anything to make right if something is wrong. Leaving negative feedback without asking for the problem to be fixed is like a buyer picketing outside of a store for days on end and they coming back and asking to return an item. You think that feedback wont be held hostage but you are wrong, the buyer will now be holding the feedback hostage. Threatening to leave an unwarranted negative feedback just because they can.
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In the end, it'll really force the crappy sellers to go away because they will suddenly get tons of bad feedback that they used to get as positives out of fear. If ebay gets tough on non-payers, they will go away too. I like the idea of ebay being a slightly smaller community of better buyers and sellers.
In the end all it will do is allow the scammers and bad buyers to flourish in the marketplace. In the ideal world every buyer is a great person and will do business honestly. In the real world there are numerous scammers and bad buyers who look for any loop hole to exploit in ebay and use those loop holes for personal gain.
I've wasted enough of my time selling stuff one ebay for them to just trample over of me. As soon as the feedback takes affect I will no longer sell anything on ebay and instead put it in my own online store where I dont have to deal with all of ebays stupid rules.
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