Phantom buyers

Forgive me if this is not a new topic... Last time I was involved with eBay, ten or twelve years ago, most sellers were private sellers and all the buyers were in good faith. Recently returning to eBay, I find that 99.9% of the sellers are traders and 50% of the buyers are yoyos or dipsticks, anything but good faith. What has gone wrong? I suppose eBay removed the option to leave negative feedback on non-payers because there are so many of them: it would look bad for eBay. But I don't understand what goes on here. Why are there so many non-payers with zero feedback? Is there some sort of scam going here? What's the rationale?
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Phantom buyers


@jbmbkb wrote:

pretty sure ebay removed the right for sellers to leave negs was because sellers were holding buyers to ransom ...u leave me neg i leave you neg in retaliation. 


Yes, you are right.

There were a lot of undeserved negs left for buyers so ebay decided to put a stop to it.

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