meganbmoore | (no subject)

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You know, before ebay fixed it so that sellers couldn't leave neutral or negative feedback, I actually dealt with civil people there.

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I haven't placed any items on eBay since they took out our ability to leave anything but positive feedback -- honestly I find the idea rather frightening. Without that threat of negative feedback what do we have left? >.> (I'm listing books/DVDs through Amazon instead, despite the higher costs for those)

They did WHAT?!!

What? Why would you get rid of this feature? I am sure some people misused it but it was useful to read sometimes especially about delivery times and the state of goods when they arrived.

When I saw that they had actually gone and done that (they'd been whispering about it for sometime), I merely shook my head sadly, and thanked my lucky stars I'd already left eBay as a fulltime seller.

I have no idea what they are/were thinking.

Actually, you would think they would appreciate buyers more as when we "receive" money through paypal, they take a cut. They get a cut of the final value fee. They get the listing fee. Buyers acutally isn't where they make the money. I finally broke down and put 2 items up and they sold. I was hesitant because of the new policy. So far, I got one feedback positive. WAiting on the second.

I am glad they took that whole neutral affecting the percentage. I had one neutral which turned out be because the buyer hit the wrong button which is why the comment was good. Because you can't change it, the girl couldn't change it which was no biggie as it was neutral who cares, right? But when it counted it ticked me off. I am hoping enough sellers complain and a drop of business that they put up the FAIR practice of having feedback on both parts.

I've only bought things on eBay, never sold them, but even I couldn't understand why they limited sellers' ability to leave feedback. It makes no sense to me at all, unless you also limit what buyers can say.

... This is completely insane. I've been buying books and stuff on Trade Me (the local internet auction site... from memory, Ebay tried opening up here a few years ago and failed spectacularly) and both buyer and seller can leave negative feedback; I simply can't understand what the point of leaving feedback would be at all if you can't leave a negative against a bad buyer (or seller). In all my time on Trade Me I've only ever left a negative once (someone didn't post me the old LP I bought and wouldn't reply to my emails) but I'd stop buying there if they took away that ability.

People are threatening you over auctions? o_O

I considered starting to sell stuff on eBay a little while back, then decided not to after the negative feeback ability for sellers was taken away. If you can't tell the eBay community at large that the buyer didn't pay or harassed you or whatever, why have the feedback option at all?

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