@lucamedicci wrote:
It was so foolish for eBay to remove the ability to give negative feedback to buyers.
the reasoning seems to be “to avoid malicious negative feedback” but surely that’s what the function for removing incorrect feedback is for?
I had an item which had a few bids on, went up to £28, a user bidded up to £30 then did not pay, ignored messages and I’ve ended up having to list it again.
I can see on their feedback history they have a track record for this, bidding on items and not actually paying. Being able to leave negative feedback on this (or eBay actually doing anything about it) would be useful. But again, buyers get the short end every time.
How do "buyers get the short end every time"?
Why do you regard not being paid as a positive experience?
How would negative feedback prevent a buyer from not paying?
Those numpty sellers who left false positive feedback threw you under the bus... and now you have done the same.
Surely you have your Buyer Requirements set to exclude all those with 2 or more Unpaid Cancellations in a 12 month period.
If so & if those sellers had Correctly Cancelled as Unpaid then this buyer would not have been able to bid on your item.
The tools that eBay provides are far superior to leaving false positive feedback.
eBay did the right thing in May of 2008 by removing negative feedback for buyers... sadly it does not stop sellers from ignoring policies while expecting others to abide by them.
