Should sellers be able to leave negative feedback for non-payments?

[2011emc2]

As a first-time seller, I had a buyer who didn't pay and didn't bother to contact me or respond to my emails. I opened an ‘Unpaid Item’ case, which again got no response, and closed the case today.

Yet the only feedback option available to me was to leave 'Positive' feedback for this buyer.

Really, eBay???

This 'buyer' still has a '100% positive' feedback rating on eBay. How is this honest or fair? Shouldn't a feedback system allow members of a community to comment on their actual dealings with people in that community?

Little wonder some sellers try to sneak in negative comments using the positive feedback option, to try to warn other unsuspecting sellers. Yet eBay deletes these from buyers' profiles.

I think eBay should change its feedback policy in order to allow equal footing for buyers and sellers. So sellers would be allowed to either: (a) leave negative feedback - if only for non-payment; or (b) automaticallly note non-payments into each buyer's feedback profile, so these are clear for all to see.

It's not a problem to demonstrate that a buyer hasn't paid. Why not give sellers the same rights as buyers to leave honest feedback? Wouldn't everyone benefit?

I didn't ship the item because payment never arrived or cleared.  Still, what a negative experience, especially the shocking attitude toward sellers whose fees sustain and enrich eBay.

What is your opinion on eBay's feedback policy for sellers?

(Newbies: FB = feedback, NP = non-payment)

[digital*ghost]

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@thecatspjs wrote:

some posters like this thread, 

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I know, but the topic is brought up relatively cosistently, and this thread is bumped when a similar thread appears - without the poll, bumping this thread does even less than what it did before. By which I mean it doesn't promote or invite ongoing discussion here in this thread about the topic at hand. No one who keeps posting on this thread has anything new to say (myself included 😉 ), and if they did there probably wouldn't be any harm posting it on a / the new thread instead of dragging this up. 

I would get the "here's one we made earlier" thing if this was a cooking or craft show and there was some advanced development people would benefit from seeing here..... 

[thecatspjs]

Shrugs shoulders....

Maybe just chill, and ignore the thread if its bumped in the future. 

[digital*ghost]

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@thecatspjs wrote:

Shrugs shoulders....

Maybe just chill, and ignore the thread if its bumped in the future. 

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Move along, nothing to see here?  

Believe me, I'm chill... Well, actually more cucumber-like, but I hear they're sometimes kinda cool. I was just asking if there was a reason the thread is being bumped - one that made sense (to me), that is. 

Since there is no (or hasn't yet been an) answer that makes sense (to me), I'll just put forward (to save you the trouble) that it's my problem it doesn't make sense and leave it at that. 

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