I contacted some sellers and they sad they opened and closed cases.

I counted AT LEAST SEVEN  cases against this buyer.

She is still registered!

Can you imagine any seller with seven cases? I do not.

System treats sellers as garbage. We ever cannot tell what we think - only positive feedback allowed.

PLEASE - Put your blanket blocks in place - any buyer with 2 or more strikes will not be able to bid or buy from you. As to the sellers that have left the green dots with negative comments - then serve them right if they get bitten again, they should follow procedure and also have blocks in place.

What I don't understand is why some buyers behave like this.  Is it some kind of sick game?  I'm a buyer and I'd hate to be bidding against someone who has upped the final bid but has no intention of paying!  If I lose I want it to be all above board and fair and square.  Those people don't do legitimate buyers any favours either.

There are several reasons,  rival sellers bidding high or using BIN to get rid of the opposition. Someone who has had an unpleasant experience (or so they think) with a seller so they use another id to bid/buy. People who don't use ebay much, put in a snipe bid then forget about it, believe it or not some people can go weeks without logging into ebay. Then there are the kids who buy things but can't pay for them, the people who think they can afford things then realise they can't etc, etc etc.

The best solution is to always go through the dispute process and have all your buyer blocks in place, most of us who do that have very few non payers but if we look in our activity logs we can see that a lot of people who have more than one strike have tried to bid but not been able to.

I contacted some sellers and they sad they opened and closed cases. I counted AT LEAST SEVEN  cases against this buyer.   She is still registered!   Can you imagine any seller with seven cases? I do not.     System treats sellers as garbage. We ever cannot tell what we think - only positive feedback allowed.

So?  It is your choice if you allow somebody with 7 strikes to bid on your items or not; do not blame eBay if you do not protect yourself.

Anyway, eBay is just a website that you advertise your goods, you do all the work, you do your listings and you set your preferences. 

Of-course, buyers have to have more protection; they agree to buy something just going on a photo and the seller's description.  They pay their money and have to be able to trust the seller was honest in describing the item and will post it.  Buyers are much more vulnerable in the transaction.  All what seller is going to lose if the buyer does not pay is bit of listing fee.  Yes it is annoying, but that is a part of trading on the Internet, if anybody finds that so unfair, maybe this is not the place for you.

Actually, I think that ebay is doing sellers great favour by not allowing negative comments for buyers; abusive comments only reflect badly on the seller.  If I see abusive messages left by the seller for buyer in FB or response to the FB they received, I hit the back button fast. 

... now where is that other feedback thread, I think it had a poll ... ]:)

if ebay left  NPB sign when an unpaid item strike was recorded on a buyers account then sellers could not leave negative positives ...because the feedback space has already been filled

ASK YOURSELF TWO QUESTIONS

...... how would that FEEDBACK negatively impact on anybody but NON PAYERS??

....  would the MARK when left by ebay on a buyers feedback  "NPB'  positively impact on sellers by increasing aprticipation in the NPB strike system??

ie instil confidence

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