Why can't you leave negative feedback for buyers / bidders that don't pay for their item(s)?!

[creole58]

Why can't you leave negative feedback for buyers who didn't pay for their item(s)?!

[m25jet]

eBay put a stop to sellers being able to leave neutral or negative feedback for buyers over a decade ago, as some sellers were using it in a retaliatory manner - ie:  "If you leave me negative feedback then I'll leave negative feedback for you."  Therefore, due to the actions of a minority of sellers who were abusing the system, eBay removed all sellers' rights to leave neutral or negative feedback for buyers.  As a result of that the feedback system has now become extremely one-sided and to some extent very misleading - one-sided because buyers can leave positive, neutral or negative feedback for a seller but the seller can only leave a buyer positive feedback or nothing at all, and very misleading because the feedback system does not provide sellers with any means whatsoever of being able to identify buyers who are, in reality, the kind of buyers who really ought to be on any seller's Blocked Bidders List, especially as buyers who have never sold on eBay can only ever have a 100% positive feedback score, thus creating the illusion that they're excellent buyers to do business with, when in reality it may well be the case that the buyer in question is an absolute nightmare to deal with, which unfortunately sellers will have no way of knowing until it is too late and they are actually in a transaction with a problematic buyer.

At the end of the day if you've got a non-paying bidder just open an Unpaid Item Dispute and close it at the first chance that eBay give you if the buyer still hasn't paid for the item.  That way the buyer's account will be hit with an Unpaid Item Strike - if a buyer picks up two or more Unpaid Item Strikes within a twelve month period then the non-paying bidder will find it very difficult to buy goods on eBay until the strikes expire, as most sellers have their Selling Preferences set up to automatically block buyers with a history of two or more Unpaid Item Strikes during the past twelve months so as to minimise the risk of a non-paying buyer purchasing their items.