New Ebayers manipulating Feedbacks

Sounds terrible,
I hope it does not happen to me. What can a seller do in a situation like that?

yikes!

i miss the ebay from 10 years ago

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This response is directed towards the writer of the note about the new system, it occurs to me that you do not have to use it. What is forcing you to use eBay anyway? You could just sell your stuff elsewhere. Manipulators and newbies - seems like you can limit who you sell to. You can say seller must have at least a score of 50 and a % of 97 or greater. Sounds simple enough. Negative feedbacks - even when YOU deserve one you have gotten a positive.

Without the fear of backlash from an outraged seller for getting a negative mark, buyers can more accurately rate the sellers for their customer service. These things can be based upon such matters as a seller requiring an immediate payment but not getting the item in the mail for about a week. This may be normal but immediate payment for immediate service seems fair.

I can sight one example if asked to support this whereby the seller did this thing and then got a positive feedback with some less than positive remarks. The seller was not happy about it and made excuses in response to the remarks about him making excuses. The buyer and the seller both know the truth. The seller said it would be shipped the next day but then claimed sickness and then a postal holiday, 3000 miles away, etc....etc.... etc.....

In the end, I do not think there is a conspiracy. It is just business, big companies make changes to earn them more money, and more. Sellers have to be creative to stay on top. They need to be proactive and write a binding statement that is attached to each of their ads. It can be small.

Whatever the case may be, I disagree. I hope you will be able to do what you say you are going to do in the future and prevent a real Negative feedback, and not just some honest words on a POSITIVE + feedback.