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)

[thecatspjs]

Mmm - interesting poll results that have some relevance to other  recent threads 😉

[*sparklz*]

Seems there is more out there than not that think negs should be left for non payers.

If the dispute closes with item unpaid then why not give the seller the option to leave a neg.

If those that here are too busy to read a buyers feedback then that is your choice so it should be the choice of a seller if they want to read their feedback to look for anything bad.

Also many claim they do not have the time to read buyers FB BUT how often do those people comment on here about feedback they have seen while looking through the FB after seeing a post here and state one for the BBL. Must have been peeking at the feedback to see it 🙂

So if a buyer has a neg then I am sure many would add them to their BBL if they can see it when looking through the FB of an OP or their buyers FB that they claim they have no time to do. :^O

[viewmont1071]

Woops did I see another..."why can I not leave negative feedback thread" ...... bumpety bump bump

[thecatspjs]

Poll results continue to have relevance to current threads

Keep voting B-)

[thecatspjs]

and the votes continue to come in  :-D:^O

[davewil1964]

And they are still irrelevant.

Loaded options. Self-selecting poll.

[thecatspjs]

keep kidding yourself 😉

[davewil1964]

Who's kidding themselves?

Given the chance of eBay reintroducing negative feedback for buyers is bordering on zero. For good reason.

[thecatspjs]

If the topic is irrelevant then why look and why post ??

is it a compulsion ??

[cezm]

Given that the buyer hasn't purchased for 8 months (on that ID) perhaps the unpaid item strikes and blocks set in place by sellers have been effective ... perhaps if sellers had been quicker to follow the procedures the buyer wouldn't have been able to clock up all that 'positive' feedback ... follow through the UIDs, put blocks in place and then there will be no reason to be hung up on buyer feedback ...