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FilthyRaider
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Sellers No Longer Able to Leave Neutral or Negative on Ebay
Wed Jan 30 2008 09:24 AM
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Well, it's coming. It has been rumoured for months after someone translated a foreign eBay.com site.
Coming soon will be the inability for a seller to leave a buyer anything but No feedback or a Positive. So a seller is unable to leave Negative or Neutral for buyers.
Now a lot of eBay sellers are through the roof on this, but personally after thinking about it I can only see one downside.
The pluses are you can actually rate a seller now with no worries about retaliation - well, apart from the nasty email you might get. You do have to 'cool off' for three days before it can go through, but that is supposed to get you to sort it out with the seller.
The only negative I could initially think of (sorry for the pun)is the fact that you could no longer neg non payers. But on the counter side of that you will be able to block 5000 bad buyers as opposed to the current 1000. Also what is the point of a buyer neg? It doesn't stop them buying, does it? It's not like the seller has a choice. I prefer just to follow eBay's Unpaid Item Dispute and put a strike against a non payer - that restricts their account (Sellers have always been able to set that they will not take bids off buyers with recent strikes) and eventually can get them kicked off.
The ONLY real downside for a seller, that I can see, is that punters will turn to Negative rather than actually try to sort out a problem. Will be interesting to see what happens as some sellers are calling for a Strike! and not a fat lot happened out of the last one.
EBay is basically someone else's playground, and as a Buyer or Seller you just have to abide by the rules.
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