Ebay you need to reinstate the negative feedback option for non paying buyers. I have had numerous items bid on and not paid for because buyers know they can get away with this as their is no repercussion that affects their feedback score. In fact several members had positive feedback but negative comments associated.
And although ebay may offer a credit for unpaid items, it cannot refund the time lost/wasted on these buyers. Often a second chance offer is not accepted because the second chance buyer has purchased elsewhere in the time it has taken to try and get payment from the originaly buyer.
If I ever got positive feedback that said I hadn't paid i would consider that a negative comment. And I suspect a group of 12 typical members of society would agree.
Negs for buyers was never going to work, even without the retaliatory negs from sellers.
UID's do the job, blocks for any buyer with those 2 strikes in 12 months work if the sellers have those blocks in place, and if sellers take a minute or so to put the UID in, instead of posting an irrelevant -ve on the buyer's lovely feedback.
How long is it going to take before sellers realise the basics of this.................
"Slaps head...................."
O.K. they can start a new ID..............is that going to change if they have negs on an old ID? I think not.................
The ones who are most at fault are the ones who advocate leaving false postives before they close a NPB and then assume that 1) somebody will read it and 2) they are so clever and not breaching policy.
I certainly wouldn't want to be wearing pyjamas and leaving those comments if the NPBs had any idea of the courses open to them.
As i have quite restrictive blocks in place its pretty easy to work out through the non payment comments in the feedback of a buyer who buys / bids / makes an offer on my items.
The sellers leaving feedback that alerts me i have a non paying pest, either don't have blocks in place OR eBay have removed the strikes on automated request OR the block or strike system has technical glitches.
Ebay you absolutely suck you do not care for sellers at all.....I had a scammer buy a item on my ebay account opened paypal dispute saying things where fake i proved to paypal buyer was lying 100% ebay management promised to remove negative feedback andhave done nothing i was promised by 4 different supervisisors and 2 managers........This is why ebay is full of corruption because there own staff do not care at all closing my ebay account after 10 years i had a 100% feedback rating ruinedby a person thatwas provedto be lying with a fake address fake name and fake phone number registered on ebay and guess what ebay did nothing about it as they are greedy money vrooks themselves i thank paypal for listening to me and checking evedince i provided yes thats right i also won paypal dispute twice and still ebay di jack **bleep**
This is the pojnt where you need to actually be objective and proactive. There are avenues that you can pursue, and I doubt that not being able to leave a buyer a neg has anything to do with them.
And I suspect one neg in 10 years is going pretty good, even though you don't seem to have huge volume. And this account is less than 4 years old. And is a buying only account at the moment.
So, presumably you are venting and don't actually want advice. I will, therefore, respect your wishes.
thecatspjs wrote I have yet to see a poster come to the board complaining that they have received a policy violation for having feedback they left for a buyer or seller removed.
I'm not complaining, but I did receive a policy violation for the feedback I left a non-payer. It was on another of my accounts, and was some time back. Here's a screen grab of part of the email I received from eBay:
