Equality for sellers.

[dancewithadingo]

Here's an idea.  As buyers have a few days to decide if they want to cancel a purchase why don't eBay give the seller the same courtesy?

Give us say 24 hours in which time we can,if need be,research our prospective buyer ie via their feedback left etc and see if we really do want to sell to them. Sometimes we get a gut feeling about a buyer and they may have a 100% (buying) record but have caused no end of problems to their buyers leaving a string of negative reviews.  

To late in the day the whole picture is revealed and we are aghast and unable to withdraw from the sale. 

Empower us to cancel the sale without penalty,even after payment has been received,if we feel inclined to. Equality for all.

What are your thoughts? 

[*vyolla*]

100% in agreement, level the playing field a bit. 

[roger_roger_over_and_nowt]

So what would happen with those with "private" or zero feedback.

[technthread]

For eBay it would open up so many problems. 

More annoyed buyers who don’t come back. 

Dropshippers listing items that they can’t guarantee they will be able to fulfil will have carte blanche to take a punt on all sorts of items. 

Sellers won’t have to manage out of stock levels as another easy get out is available to avoid a defect.

[dancewithadingo]

Good Evening Roger

Then you would have to take a chance with 'private' feedbackers and keep your fingers crossed.   My suggestion would enable you to exclude/cancel those with no history.

Surely anything to help is better than nothing?

[technthread]

I worked out a while ago that the time I spent to go onto desktop and check buyer feedback left for others was taking me about 2 minutes per order.

I did it habitually and have lost hours of time for no reason so I stopped doing it.

[dancewithadingo]

Good Evening Tech

I take your point but surely it is better to lose 2 minutes of your time than £200.00?  I don't know about you but I only do that once in a while when I have concerns. It can be illuminating.

[technthread]

Definitely if I was selling a high risk item I’d check but I was doing it on everything and it was daft really.

Even when I saw loads of negatives I was still sending, picturing parcels and internal packaging and then I never heard a peep off the buyers.

You got me thinking as I’ve got my buyer hat on this week as I found an item I can easily flip that nobody has seen so I’ve been buying what I can find on eBay. I’ve been frustrated by sellers not replying to offers, ignoring questions and taking 3/4 days to even post with no comms. So my thoughts are as a buyer I just want people to get on with it and secure a sale and get posting. If they are doing due diligence on me first I don’t really want that and eBay will hate it. I reckon in future they will do away with making it so easy to see the feedback left for others and streamline the site. 

I take your point though, just a few thoughts to add to the discussion..,

[technthread]

What was really noticeable when I was checking was so many users left feedback for years and then just stopped. So many had their last feedback left over 12 months ago. Often, I noticed they had been left a negative off a buyer at the same time they stopped leaving it too. 

[robbtyke132010]

To be honest - do you really need 24 hours to get that "gut feeling" that a buyer is dodgy? It ususlly takes about 7 seconds.