@imaginary_product wrote:
If sellers are **bleep** they get negative feedback, simple as that. If they create expectations on their listings to encourage buyers and then don't bother to meet them, of course their buyers will be unhappy. If they are very slow to post, never send items, send cheap subsititues without asking, or chuck a fit because their auction didn't meet a high enough price for them, then they are going to get negatives.
If you're not a **bleep** seller you shouldn't be worried. And considering it takes about 1 minute to create an ebay account, the BBL is fairly useless.
Most people wouldn't look at, or are not interested in, the individual sellers involved in transactions, nor really the surrounding circumstances - what they would look at is the frequency someone has a problem with their transactions, because - in general and on average - that says (or at the very least, suggests) plenty enough about a buyer.
Something like last line in this post goes on to suggests they would be right to think it might not just be a case of frequent bad luck and a penchant for choosing problematic sellers - because if anyone is prepared to create new accounts to try to circumvent a seller's blocks, then they have no respect for other people and their rights at all. Nobody wants to deal with someone that doesn't respect others, regardless of whether they've left a high rate of negs, or none at all in thousands of positives.
