@obakesanwrote:
I wholeheartedly agree.
This new system makes it impossible to be honest. I sold a lens recently and the guy didn't pay till the last day of the disupted transaction , did not reply to a single email sent. This makes him a bad ebay buyer and now there is no way to mention this to warn others ... what the hell is even the point of the buyer feedback if its meaningless?
I will be using ebay less in future
It's a pretty old thread, maybe you would have been better to start a new thread.
Ebay could do things better for sure, but re-introducing seller negs isn't a great idea as I regularly saw it used as a way to threaten or clobber good buyers too.
You can only work in the ebay system that exists now & it doesn't look to me as if ebay will reintroduce negs for buyers any time soon because it might put a buyer off.
So here's your best way to deal with things, as they stand.
-if you strike an annoying buyer or a really troublesome one, don't give them ANY feedback. No green dot with a neg comment as they can get that removed anyway. No green dot at all. That will stop their feedback score rising & making them look better.
-if you have a non paying bidder, always carry through to give them a strike. If they collect a couple of strikes they won't be able to bid with quite a few sellers & that is what is called accountability. It might inconvenience them, which is what you want.
