I noticed something recently that has probably been there for a while but it's relatively new for me.
Sellers CANNOT leave negative feedback for bad buyers!
I've been with eBay for 15 years, and always felt the strange shift of it going from 50/50 to leaning more and more heavily towards buyers, but this is a new low.
In the past few months, I've sold a small number of things on eBay with zero problems doing buy-it-now, but ONE item in particular I wanted to go the old classic auction route due to its rareness. TWICE now, I've listed it as an auction and both times the winning bidders, completely different people, never paid for the item.
1st guy won on Friday, said on Monday that he'd have to pay that next Friday. I said no problem, then never heard from him again.
2nd guy, who won the item for almost $10 cheaper than the 1st, never communicated at all.
I filed non-paying bidder requests and got my fees back, but when it came time to give negative feedback for these morons, I realized two things:
1. Negative feedback is not an available option.
2. Any feedback is not an option once you file a non-paying bidder claim.
So after experiencing that, I've come to this conclusion:
If I, as a seller, cannot leave negative feedback when needed, then I shouldn't bother leaving positive feedback just for the fact that the seller actually paid for the item they bought.
Now I completely understand why I never get feedback from sellers until AFTER I leave them feedback. It's become a "thank you for actually leaving me feedback" tip. From this point forward, I will treat feedback as a one-way street that has absolutely nothing to do with buying and should only count for items sold.
Funny note: the 1st deadbeat winner's feedback history was over 20, all positive except for two: the only two times he tried to sell anything. Both of those were horrible negatives. I wonder now, how many times he's bid and won on items and then walked away...
Sellers CANNOT leave negative feedback for bad buyers!
I've been with eBay for 15 years, and always felt the strange shift of it going from 50/50 to leaning more and more heavily towards buyers, but this is a new low.
In the past few months, I've sold a small number of things on eBay with zero problems doing buy-it-now, but ONE item in particular I wanted to go the old classic auction route due to its rareness. TWICE now, I've listed it as an auction and both times the winning bidders, completely different people, never paid for the item.
1st guy won on Friday, said on Monday that he'd have to pay that next Friday. I said no problem, then never heard from him again.
2nd guy, who won the item for almost $10 cheaper than the 1st, never communicated at all.
I filed non-paying bidder requests and got my fees back, but when it came time to give negative feedback for these morons, I realized two things:
1. Negative feedback is not an available option.
2. Any feedback is not an option once you file a non-paying bidder claim.
So after experiencing that, I've come to this conclusion:
If I, as a seller, cannot leave negative feedback when needed, then I shouldn't bother leaving positive feedback just for the fact that the seller actually paid for the item they bought.
Now I completely understand why I never get feedback from sellers until AFTER I leave them feedback. It's become a "thank you for actually leaving me feedback" tip. From this point forward, I will treat feedback as a one-way street that has absolutely nothing to do with buying and should only count for items sold.
Funny note: the 1st deadbeat winner's feedback history was over 20, all positive except for two: the only two times he tried to sell anything. Both of those were horrible negatives. I wonder now, how many times he's bid and won on items and then walked away...
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