Low ratings from buyers

[harley_babes_hoard]

It will be very interestingto see what happens in the coming months now that sellers can see exactly which buyers are giving low stars. Some buyers might find themselves with less options to purchase if they continue to give low stars.

[doobelly]

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@harley_babes_hoard wrote:

It will be very interestingto see what happens in the coming months now that sellers can see exactly which buyers are giving low stars. Some buyers might find themselves with less options to purchase if they continue to give low stars.

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Seems to me that you need a reality check, big time!  You NEED us buyers; we can go absolutely anywhere at all to buy anything.  We are not locked in to ebay one little bit.  With the amount of listings you have it looks like you just might be.

From reading these posts I sense that many sellers think of us buyers as the enemy somehow, or at the very least least, an irritant.

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[j*oono]

I had to kind of applaud that Doobelly 

I doubt that any seller would complain about the feedback that you leave.

[gec2002]

Unfortunately eBay do not explain to buyers the impact low stars can have.  In some categories the loss of Top Rated Seller can have a significant impact on sales and profitability.  Not every seller on eBay is doing it as a hobby, it is part of their wage to help support their family.  A few 1 or 2 stars can result in the loss of TRS.

So how would you like someone anonymously ringing your place of employment and telling your boss that you were hopeless?  The company then docks your wage hundreds of dollars, refuses to tell you who reported you, what it was for, except in the most general of terms, and made it virtually impossible to have the decision reversed.  But hey Get over youself, for gawd's sake its only your living.

[harley_babes_hoard]

The reality check is........You can, BUT i don't need buyers who like to leave cra.ppy stars in a very cowardly manner whilst leaving positive comments. I most certainly don't need them, they are straight on the BBL. This way they can't hide LOL. It's a big improvement

[digital*ghost]

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@doobelly wrote:

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@harley_babes_hoard wrote:

It will be very interestingto see what happens in the coming months now that sellers can see exactly which buyers are giving low stars. Some buyers might find themselves with less options to purchase if they continue to give low stars.

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Seems to me that you need a reality check, big time!  You NEED us buyers; we can go absolutely anywhere at all to buy anything.  We are not locked in to ebay one little bit.  With the amount of listings you have it looks like you just might be.

From reading these posts I sense that many sellers think of us buyers as the enemy somehow, or at the very least least, an irritant.

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I personally don't feel that buyers are more important than sellers, and vice versa - sellers aren't more important that buyers, we are all eBay members, and we are all equals, and buyers / sellers (generally) have a mutually beneficial relationship. 

As a seller, I give all of my buyers respect, and I expect it in return. I have blocked buyers for being disrespectful to me and/or the job I perform (and will continue to do so), and that includes leaving glowing feedback comments then low DSRs for something (methods are convoluted, but DSRs have pretty much never been anonymous). I have had a couple of buyers in the past take issue with something, and I received a couple of neutrals / low DSRs, those buyers weren't blocked by me because their complaint was justified, the way they handled it was appropriate and the feedback was fair.

Leaving a "best seller ever" kind of comment and rating DSRs at 1 or 2 with no other comment is not appropriate, the seller has no way of knowing what the issue was, how legitimate the problem is and so on, but eBay are treating this kind of feedback as evidence of poor seller performance, when quite often - IMHO - it's evidence of poor buyer performance. If a buyer chooses to damage a seller's business without even attempting to communicate with said seller, they can not expect to be given the opportunity to do it again. I am willing to bet most sellers would rather lose a few buyers than lost the ability to sell on ebay all together.

[harley_babes_hoard]

You said it so better than me DG

[lane-ends]

yep there is a warning that DSRs are no longer anonymous. Hopefully that will make some think twice about a previously hidden 3.

[chameleon54]

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@doobelly wrote:

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@harley_babes_hoard wrote:

It will be very interestingto see what happens in the coming months now that sellers can see exactly which buyers are giving low stars. Some buyers might find themselves with less options to purchase if they continue to give low stars.

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Seems to me that you need a reality check, big time!  You NEED us buyers; we can go absolutely anywhere at all to buy anything.  We are not locked in to ebay one little bit.  With the amount of listings you have it looks like you just might be.

From reading these posts I sense that many sellers think of us buyers as the enemy somehow, or at the very least least, an irritant.

.

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I,m pretty easy going regards BBL. I only have around a dozen names on there and they are all for major headaches. I recently had a non payer who I put through the non payment process. Relisted the item, they bid again ( after contacting me ) , won and paid straight away second time around. Every one to their own, but a buyer has to be pretty bad before I go to the trouble of blocking them. Doobelly is right that we need buyers. Ebay also needs sellers. With a bit of co-operation everyone wins.

[ajarnjenny]

She usually says it better than almost anyone.

[digital*ghost]

Spoiler

Except when people compliment me, lol, but that's my way of saying thank you ^_^