So are you saying of 8 strikes, eBay removed all of them or at least 7 of them?? If so then that is disgusting I agree and I do apologise for not reading your post correctly Helen.

By the same token however I have also heard that sellers quite often get neg's removed - which depending on circumstances I also think is very wrong.

As you say not a lot of point having the system in place if all it takes is a call to eBay to flout it.

I honestly had no idea that could be done so often and so easily

Hi sweete, yes, that is exactly was Helen was saying!

Ebay guy also said, something like:" what are you complining about, you still have heaps of those who couldn't get through to you to bid/buy "(looking at the list) - except most of those were the ones on a BBL!

Removal of the negs is not quite the same though as everyone knows on Ebay they are mostly unjustified, hardly ever relevant or truthful, sometimes downright insulting or even malicious.  Also given for the most of the trivial reasons, almost always advocated by the regulars here, straight away: "give them a neg they desrve" has a become most boring  repetitive advice given to all and sundry for anything and everything! Most of the sellers probably couldn't care less what the neg giver thinks of them if it wasn't for being in the public wiev for all to see - and that is not on.

That is why Ebay has no choice but to remove so many of them.

It makes on wander how any other net site manages just fine without them - without any horrible stories in the media of monumental swindles, cheating, etc. Biggest ones I have personally ever seen (the only ones) were on Ebay - in spite of all the f/backs & protection for customers.