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@*tippy*toes* wrote:

 

In reply to eezi's message:

"eBay has detection methods to identify and block buyers who consistently break buying policies, don't pay for items or show a pattern of leaving unwarranted negative Feedback."

 

Sorry Michelle, but that is the funniest thing I think I've ever read on the forums. I laughed so hard even though it is VERY unfunny. There are 2 members on my follow list on this account who are owned by the same person. One of the accounts have over 800 false positive feedback for non payment. 800+!!!!! 1, 5, 10, even 20, OK, it's bad, but there are worse, buy OVER 800?? As far as I know, the member is still buying and not paying on both those accounts. Where are the bots blocking this vermin of a "buyer"?

 

I have quite a number of people on my blocked list who have left several hundred negative feedback for several hundred transactions. The only feedback they leave is bad. They are still buying and still leaving red dots for every transaction. Where are the bots blocking this people who a malicious?

 

Where are the bots that detect a buyer on your blocked list is using a different account to buy from you will the sole purpose of trashing your feedback? That goes on ALL THE TIME. Seller complains and they get into trouble while the buyer rides off into the sunset with a happy grin on their face.

 

Sellers are expected to stick to certain standards and abide by the rules. It should be the same for buyers. 3 strikes and you're out. Instead, buyers get rewarded for breaking the rules and ripping sellers off, while the seller gets permanently blocked from ever selling again. EVER. Even criminals get parole. EBay sellers don't. It's death by hanging. Oh, but you can still buy. Why would you want to?

 

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Just to add to this, I've seen some bidders who have 1000+ bid retractions so I wouldn't be surprised if the "Unpaid Item Strike" system is also just for show and has no actual effect on a bidder (outside of sellers that have their bidder requirements set up).

If a seller's selling history (negative and positive) is all on public display, why not also make public a bidder's Unpaid Item Strikes? A buyer cannot receive negative feedback (due to "retaliation") okay, but Unpaid Item Strikes are all on them.

If eBay's goal is to make the system "fairer", then allow sellers to judge a buyer's transaction history (warts and all) the same way buyers judge sellers.

If eBay's goal is to make the system "fairer", then there must be real world consequences for accumulating 100+ Unpaid Item Strikes and 1000+ bid retractions. The same way sellers suffer consequences for merely looking at a buyer the wrong way.