Negative feedback disappeared

[rosebelle9798]

I was shocked when the first negative feedback I left for a Seller had disappeared. I'm also posting because in my search for understanding I found similar threads with similar experiences.

I have made enquiries and I can only see two possible senarios but I might need further enlightenment.

1. my negative feedback left for a seller was removed because their Follow-up was considered defamatory, and therefor the Whole feedback including my feedback although it did not breach policy was removed.

Or 2. the Seller sent a Notice of Claim of Defamation Statutory Declaration to have it removed.

Either of these actions (if one is indeed the reason) made me feel that this was unfair. It seemed that I initiated a complaint with Ebay against the Seller which resulted not in any sanctions against the Sellar but a reward.

Clearly the first senario (if true- and I don't know) is extraordinary.

Because I am unable to ascertain whether the Seller had used this process; I only have an Email ( sent outside Ebay) from the company saying that they are undergoing this (after Resolution Process). I note that atleast Ebay UK policy is that I should have been Notified and given a copy if requested; these rules don't seem to apply here.

Am I right to assume that because I have received no advice from Ebay that the Seller has not submitted this "Notice"  so senario 2. can't be?

This leaves 1. or what else?

I have not found on any forum that anybody has discussed the Notice of Claim of Defamation Statutory Declaration, I can see that the use may be abused by Sellers to have Negative Feedback removed.

Although I have noticed Sellers concern about not being able to leave Buyers negative feedback, I am writing this as a Buyer with possible concern about Buyer's right to leave negative feedback on less than satisfactory Seller's .

I have tried to analyse the Seller's scores (that I left negative feedback that disappeared as mentioned above) and found that they had received 1,098 but with only (971) against their ID. What were they Neutral or negative and what happened to the 127?. What does it also say about the Seller when his score is 971 but the Seller has only left 908 for others?

Could the 63 or the other 127 have left negative feedback that nolonger appears?

[countessalmirena]

brerrabbit, I may have misread the post... but "Removing negative feedback from sellers is why I bought an item from someone that has a bad record of selling in the first place " seemed to me to be saying "Why I bought from this seller - because he/she has a bad record and I saw negative feedback disappearing so I bought to give negative feedback."

But you're right - it could mean rather that the poster was saying "I feel that I was misled and that negative feedback for this seller has been removed and this is why I didn't realise that the seller was a bad seller, and I've since seen my own negative feedback removed."

Spoiler

I must admit that I thought the first possible meaning was bolstered by seeing duffl03's typical feedback comments over the last year which are nonsensical strings of letters for the last 4 pages of feedback given.

[davewil1964]

And they say that grammar (and spelling and punctuation) is no longer necessary. I'd bet London to a brick that the subject sentence, properly constructed, would have left no doubt as to the author's meaning.

[brerrabbit585]

At least the nonsensical feedback wasn't negative, which is why I read their statement the way I did.  I think in their opening post they did say something about leaving a rare negative, so I assumed they're careful not to buy from people with dodgy feedback and would have appreciated knowing what the seller was really like before they bought from them.

[countessalmirena]

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@davewil1964 wrote:

And they say that grammar (and spelling and punctuation) is no longer necessary. I'd bet London to a brick that the subject sentence, properly constructed, would have left no doubt as to the author's meaning.

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Hallelujah, brother! Clarity is beautiful, and I won't be betting against you.

[countessalmirena]

True, brerrabbit, true. Nonsensical negatives would be salt in the wound.