@padi*0409 wrote:
@digital*ghost wrote:
Just posting to add my support to the cause... 😛
This issue has been cropping up elsewhere, so I'll be directing people to this thread and information. 😉
There's just so many issues (read "improvements") that have come up just in the last couple of months digi, hopefully some of them will get overturned - this ones a doozie, but the DSR fiasco is, I believe (though not a seller) one of the biggest to hit the "unprotected" sellers.
eBay's MBG already seems to be a huge headache for them and members - open one of them as a buyer and you're stuffed in trying to open a Paypal dispute.............etc etc etc
Why on earth did they decide to fix (yet again....sigh) something that wasn't broken......................
If they successfully get rid of the small sellers - which they seem hell-bent on doing - then eBay's not going to be the place for buyers like myself.
I don't even want to think about T&S's almost total anaction on scammers..................
You know what bothers me the most about these kinds of implementations?
Ok, on the one hand, every time a buyer receives something that doesn't match the decription, or gets taken advantage of by a seller (even if temporarily, in that the funds are recovered), it's easy enough to see where eBay / PayPal's so-called 'heart' lies.
But you see / hear about nearly as many buyers scamming sellers, and for every story like that, not one person is able to say what everyone can say when it's a seller-scammed-buyer story... "When I read about things like this, it shows why eBay/PayPal introduced such and such policy" Not even once....because they haven't actually introduced anything to curb buyer fraud. 😞
And it's the ever-increasing protections for buyers that are putting more and more sellers at risk of scams.
And I keep asking myself why. Aside from the obvious answer, why do buyers need all these third party "advocacy" services that doesn't actually reduce risk, but rather increases and extends responsibility to one party and one party alone (that being the seller)? As far as I'm concerned, increased expectations are the way to go, not decreased expectations (of buyers, I mean - that is, increased expectations of responsible, informed decisions and actions when it comes to spending supposedly hard-earned money).
The fact of the matter is they don't need them - you know what would really help stop scammers?
- A modicum of education
- Policies that don't ultimately convey bollix like "hey, you don't even have to think or worry about a thing, just spend your money now 🙂 (you can have it back later, if you really want 😉 )".
- Money spent on properly policing the site instead of the detestable laziness of, "meh, we just won't let sellers have the money until the risk to us has mostly passed".
