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

2011emc2
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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)

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hawksheroes
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cool thank you
i will do that in the future if it saves worrying if they are going to pay or not 

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93% of members think the feedback system is faulty

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Thanks for bumping the thread Trevor.. I thought it was going to fall off the first page

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Thanks for that. I hadn't heard of that site. Interesting, might give it a try.Smiley Happy

 

As for the question of feedback. It isn't all that long ago that sellers on ebay were able to give feedback, so things do change.

Must admit, some sellers abused the system by giving negative or neutral just to get even with buyers who dared to rate them that way.

There was also a time you couldn't click on just the negatives to read those. Ebay said it would be an 'unfair perspective", yet that has changed too. So despite what they say, things do change if there is enough feeling about it.

the day may well come when sellers are again given some other feedback options.

 

One thing I do like is that sellers have the right of reply if they are given feedback that is unfair.

Sellers should definitely use that option. I'm 99% a buyer and I do look at feedback, and I'm able to see when some buyers have been ridiculously unfair.

I mean, who says" thanks, great item" then gives a neutral??

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To make things simple why dont we set up a sellers register for a aphabetical list of 'non paying buyers'??

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louey, you are not allowed to name and shame on the boards so no way will such a list ever be set up.

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This thread no longer contains a poll, which - if I remember correctly - was the reason it was being continually bumped. Is there another reason this one has to be bumped now? 

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some posters like this thread, its an interesting topic, poll or no poll Cat Tongue

 

 

 

 

 

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