It is a policy violation if you charge for postage on a free post item.

 

Free postage

You can offer free postage Australia-wide, and to select or all countries around the world For a destination to which you've specified free postage, no other fees related to postage, handling or packaging can be charged You're not allowed to change the postage method to a method that is slower than the slowest one indicated in the listing You're not allowed to offer free postage to one destination and then exclude posting to certain places within that destination. For example, choosing free postage within Australia in the listing form, then charging extra or excluding buyers from specific suburbs/regions such as Tasmania and Perth. You can select different postage rates for different areas by using domestic postage rate tables. Exemptions to this policy may apply if you are excluding regions to comply with the law.

I can't work out why they haven't shafted him or why it took so long to remove the spam advertising messages, especially when I reported someone on the seller forum for advertising old newspapers for sale and it was removed within a few minutes.

 

This jerk is even more annoying than the rat.....and that's saying something!!

Funny you should mention, Lyndal, he just gave me 8 kudos in succession, also to posts that IMO really didn't warrant them. What's his game? Are we meant to be so eternall grateful that we rush off to his frequently mentioned eBay shop and spend up big, or what?

Well I for one have had it with his blatant advertising and wish the moderators would permanently ban him from the boards,. Besides, if he constantly needs to advertise here his store clearly needs a bit of work, something he can't do while he's posting on the AU boards instead.

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@lyndal1838 wrote:

....he has just given me 13 kudos.  I do not think that I have been posting anything that is so profound that it deserves all those kudos.

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Well, I just gave you a kudos for two reasons, firstly for your humility in the statement above, and secondly because I only just discovered the kudos feature in the last few minutes... I love playing with new 'toys'. 

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@cq_tech wrote:
Funny you should mention, Lyndal, he just gave me 8 kudos in succession, also to posts that IMO really didn't warrant them....

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Ditto, 1 kudos for you too. 

The day they can be traded in on something useful, like free listings or a reduction in FVFs is the day I'll start thanking people for leaving them. As it presently stands, however, they're about as useless as positive feedback is for a buyer and I can't imagine why eBay ever saw fit to introduce them. I'd far sooner have had a thumbs down indication for bad posts instead, to be perfectly honest.

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@cq_tech wrote:
As it presently stands, however, they're about as useless as positive feedback is for a buyer and I can't imagine why eBay ever saw fit to introduce them. I'd far sooner have had a thumbs down indication for bad posts instead, to be perfectly honest.

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Please don't give eBay ideas, or we might soon find ourselves overly worried about unfair negs and defects on the boards also.

 

I would like to know though, when & why feedback morphed from being a useful & informative guide to help reassure/caution buyers before buying from a seller, into the inflexible 'hall monitor' judge-jury-executioner disciplinary tool (aka monster) that it is now?