First no negative feedbacks for the buyer -auctions used to allow sellers greater control of the sale of their items, in that if you were not willing to roll the dice you could check a box and not allow buyers with "X" amount of feedback to bid on your auctions. That was reduced to just a specific buyer if you had a bad run in with an atrocious buyer, then negative feedback for buyers was removed, most likely under the guise of unbalanced behavior of sellers and creating a no retaliation environment for the buyers.
Then came the new sellers dash board, in that as a seller you could set up your auction with consideration to your over all life and if you needed extra time to get to the post office because you have a job in the real world, such verbiage in your auction did not matter. If the buyer was butt hurt, you were going to suffer under the new dahsboard.
Now they have an extra criteria, buyers can state whether or not they are more or less likely to buy on eBay after the experience of buying with you.
This site is no longer an auction service where its function is to merely provide a platform to be a world wide garage sale where sellers and buyers can exchange. Sellers are now employees and subject to termination if a single buyer is butt hurt. There is verbiage on the internet that explains how to rip off sellers through eBay with "not as described" or other unjust actions. With reliance on the feedback system, over time you would see who is a genuine seller and who is a genuine buyer through building of reputation. Now it is a scenario of the buyer is always right because it is no longer a site and platform to serve to bring buyers and sellers to the same digital market place. You work for a retailer, and they have no inventory and do not ship a single thing, you do as a seller. The appreciation that is given for bringing your goods to their other wise complete empty store front is termination if a couple of buyer squawks. As a seller you are only allowed 1 not as described in 100, and since there is verbiage on the net to this regard, small sellers can exceed that in a heart beat. The sellers do all the work and suffer all the costs, so the corporate logo can have a reputation of meeting any buyers demands. Now there is purchase guarantee and if you do not have an established paypal account you have to pony up a credit card number to get your goods to market place. That is all good precautions providing there is a balance administration at the helm. If there is not, and it is my contention there is indeed not, you the seller are going to pay the cost for a reputation of satisfying the buyer at any cost. The problem will be it will be your costs that are incurred, as a seller. Do not like it, go some where else. Sold on eBay for over 15 years and all the long term sellers contributed to the success of the site, but now they have gotten large and wish to have 100% satisfaction with the buyer, the days are number for small sellers. And those who have weighed the costs and realize the potential of world wide market visibility are just buying out problem buyers. Happy sellers do not bring in Sony or Burberry on a global scale, extremely satisfied buyers, even the unreasonable ones, do. If you are a buyer, this is an excellent site for you. You can literally destroy someone’s one off item, ship it back, and ebay will throw that seller right under the bus, been there done that. It was actually a violation of well established papal policies; EBay does not observe such policies with your money on paypal. If it is under 2k you can go to small claims, like working people have the time for that. If it is over 2k, no problem, you retard, you agreed to go through resolution if the value of the item is over 2k. These are not dumb people; most people will not invest the time with the exception of the zealot, and who cares. Even the 4 million won in a class action suite this year is still chump change from the corporation’s perspective. The business model has mutated right out from under those who grew up with the service, and the change was never well defined but came in waves. The dishonesty is on epic scale. The logo may look the same, but the site has definitely changed and the days of old where you could find odd ball things you could find no where else, as a buyer, are going to be long gone soon. The sellers that had those items are either dead or dieing. Welcome to Amazon lte and overstock.com part deux.
