I brought an item from a UK seller on the 3rd March, I just enquired when they would ship it and they said 19th March. This a long time to wait? But possibly its an estimate.
@springyzonewrote:
I don't know that all sellers should have to change their practices as such, but as I said, if I were an ebay exec, I'd be wondering how to tackle the problem of sellers who accumulate hundreds of negs & neutrals. I suppose with really huge sellers they could just delete them & problem solved as we've seen happen to some.
I guess it's a personal opinion but I don't think sellers like this are screaming 'best practice'.
The reason for the practice is one out of many, though, with most others being legitimate reasons ("best practice" should be subjective and / or contextual, IMO).
I think at this stage we'll probably both continue to say the same things, perhaps in different ways, but one of the reasons for my persistance has a little less to do with you, and a little more to do with eBay in general, in that I am so sick of freedoms being taken away from sellers because of what I see as poor buyer behaviour (impatience, ignorance, creating expectations in fantasy land due to inattention etc), and that seems to be the crux of the debate, or is at least the stance I am discussing it from - correct me if I'm wrong, but what I see as primarily a buyer behaviour problem, you see as a seller behaviour problem instead, which I simply can't agree with so will just have to agree to disagree on that.
As a seller, if an issue happens more than once or twice, I look at what I can do to help ensure it doesn't happen again. If I can't or won't change the issue that's causing problems, then I need to look at ways to communicate what needs to be communicated to even the laziest of eBay buyers, so, if I was an ebay exec, my solution would simply be this:
