As with many posts on here relating to the same subject (feedback relating to buyers), it is nothing short of scandalous that the only option available to a seller giving feedback on a buyer is “positive”, when feedback by a buyer has the options positive, neutral or negative.
Such a situation is clearly exploited by unscrupulous buyers, as personal experience demonstrates. A buyer clicked on “buy” for a car we were selling. The buyer then spent the next few days trying to negotiate the price down remotely without seeing the vehicle – the buyer then failed turn up to the agreed viewing time but clicked that he had “collected” the car. In the full knowledge that the buyer will then be charged a completion fee, this is a brazen strategy to try to lock the buyer into a deal. After doing this, the buyer continued trying to negotiate the price downwards. When we wouldn’t budge from the minimum price posted on the sale, the buyer then came to view the car and again tried to barter the price down, which we refused. The experience was one of a waste of time and money (ebay have promised to refund the insertion and completion fee).
It is evident that the entire system relating to selling or buying vehicles is flawed and open to abuse from seasoned buyers. The fact that negative feedback for a clearly unethical buyer cannot be given in instances like this merely compounds the issue, whereby a seller is at a gross disadvantage, vis-a-vis the buyer.
Needless, the entire experience has been so miserable that we will never again use ebay to sell cars or other items that attract insertion and completion fees.
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