The idea of limiting, or IMO, not allowing a buyer with less than 50 feedback to leave negative feedback is a good one. The onus is completely on the seller to provide an absolute perfect transaction to even someone who has never used ebay, it is an absurd and completely unrealistic expectation.
Ebay needs to put some responsibility on new buyers, otherwise you have people who consider your reputation as a seller completely unimportant to them and run amok doing whatever they please with zero consequences. Plus you have the lowlife seller who sells something similar to you who creates a new account, then buys something from you just to leave negative for you. This type should be banned forever from ebay if that is possible.
By making 50 feedback the benchmark for new users to be able to leave negative feedback, you are making a new user take some responsibility from their side of the transaction, and the privilege of using ebay in a responsible manner.
Now once someone achieves the 50 feedback level, you would have to assume this person is a serious enough buyer/seller to want to just make a mutually satisfactory transaction with someone else and not be in it for any other reason besides so.
Sellers needs buyers, the more the merrier, and I understand ebay trying to protect buyers, but they really need to try to balance the scales, which takes time and resources on their part and likely unless their bottom line is moving in a downward trend, will likely not happen.
I also think having up to 2 months to leave feedback is totally unnecessary and should be no longer than 3 weeks, except in international transactions. That is a whole other topic.
