It's because of the risk of retaliatory feedback that you don't see
negatives much anymore. A lot of sellers only leave feedback for buyers
after the buyer has posted for them. I know as a seller I started to do that
because of a difficult buyer. I was not prepared to deal with problem buyers
without some sort of tool to use in the very last resort. Thankfully I have
not any truly difficult buyers in the last few years, in the past I have had
some doozies let me tell you.
Negative feedback has very little to do with how eBay deal with problems
anyway. If you have a problem buyer you will get more done by reporting them
as a Non Paying Bidder than you will by just leaving negative feedback. I
haven't left negative for a NPB in years but I have reported every one of
them (thankfully they have come down in number over the years). The risk to
me of getting a neg back in response just isn't worth it when as a seller
98-99% positive is a semi-requirement to getting good sales (I have a 99.8
with early three negs in just over 10 years on eBay).
I would suspect you will soon see negatives more often once the rules
change. I also think that only mid level high quality sellers will have
unblemished records in the future. High volume sellers will get more negs
than they do now and as a result there percentages will go down. Low
experience sellers who don't know the expectations will likely suffer as
well (with financial consequences as we have discussed here recently).
Dan S.
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Ali Shah
Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Eboy's negative feedback policy
I would really like to leave negative feedback. ha ha.
What happened to the days when you could be mean on Eboy! 8-)) They have
polished it so much now that you hardly see negative feedback.
However, Richard you are right - I think its best to get final value credit.
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