How can they not be 100% rating if sellers can only give a positive?
There are some sellers who do put a negative comment in a positive (green dot) space, but any savvy buyer can have ebay remove such a comment as it is against the rules.
An ID can only get a neg as a seller.
I know this is a cause of frustration to some sellers as they would like to 'warn' others and give negative feedback but as you have seen, you really only know they are a bad buyer after they personally let you down. You probably wouldn't go trawling ebay looking to block people in advance, even if other sellers were allowed to give negs.
I don't think it means no one cares, if every seller followed through with a non payment strike and more sellers put blocks in place then those bad buyers would be limited in what they could buy. That would be the most effective consequence of all, something that would personally affect them.
Some sales on ebay call for immediate payment too, so non payers cannot complete the purchase unless they do pay. That's a sale type that certainly wasn't there in the early days, so yes, things do change, slowly but surely, and that applies to ebay as much as anywhere else. Don't despair, just block, get your fees back by issuing a non payment report and if it suits, maybe put immediate payment onto the items you are selling.
