Seller protection

[1057jeremy]

Anyone know when ebay is going to start offering sellers as much protection as buyers, who they bend over backwards for?

Had 3 unpaids in the last week and there's nothing you can do as a seller other than get your fees back as ebay no longer allows you to leave negative feedback even when it's 100% warranted.

At the moment, they know they can just ride rough-shod over the whole system.

And if you do the decent thing and try to warn others via what ebay calls 'positive-negative' feedback, ebay tells you off.

It's become a very lop-sided system unfortunately

[tressygirl]

Yes,  the bias is in favour of the buyer on the whole,  but in cases of unpaid item....   no.

As you have found out ,  it's not possible to leave ,  however frustrating,  however wll meaning,   leaving warnings for others,  it's just not allowed.

  It was indeed stopped 12 years ago.  It became tit for tat,  and some sellers holding buyers to ' ransom' to change feedback...   or else!

Look at it this way.  you leave that warning feedback.  Myself and millions of others only selling Buy it Now items,  do not have the time to read your warning feedback,  and that potential  serial seller wrecker comes and buys my item,  with no intention of paying.

Now,  use the tools that eBay provide,  open and close that unpaid item case.  It gives that ' buyer'  a strike on their account.  They get two,  and they cannot buy from me,  and the countless others on eBay for a full  12 months.

Far more effective,  and I can see it works ,  as I can see a few non payers blocked from buying from me.