@*tippy*toes* wrote:
Giving a buyer a negative feedback isn't going to stop them buying. They could have a 1000 negs and it won't stop them. Unless they bid on an auction early, they have bought before you can possibly check their feedback and block them.
A valuable tool to be able to pull bids and block them during auctions, I've done that often when other red flags wave but the serial scammers would be clearly visible and stopped in their tracks, on that account anyway.
As for not stopping them buying, who cares, we don't have to post. Cancel, block & relist. Nothing lost. The alternative can be devastating.
The most dispicable part is that Ebay support the scammers, by hiding information about them from sellers, offering a money back guarantee for a brick in a box, empty box or smashed item (is there any company anywhere in the world or through history who has been stupid enough to do that? Of course not. Wouldn't happen if it was their money). I randomly came across a seller in the UK who sold 2 swords, sold for a total of about ยฃ2000, seperately, one worth a lot more than the other. Buyer opens a claim, whatever blah doesn't matter, ends up doing a return. Seller has to sign for it before opening of course, to find the cheaper sword damaged from poor packaging, and a brick! The missing sword was worth about ยฃ1400 I think, which the buyer got for free. A well executed but common scam. The seller had proof, but ebay of course didn't want to know, couldn't care less.
The scammer apparently had a history of scams but ebay only removed the account when exposed in the media by this seller, also giving him a 'discretionary' refund. Buyer still got the free item. Ebay had the power to remove him long before but instead chose to aid the crimes. How is that right? Convince me that I'm wrong
Not allowing sellers to leave negative feedback should never have been implemented, neither should the money back guarantee
