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can you leave negative feedback against a non paying bidder who won an auction ? if so how?
want to warn other sellers about a non paying high bidder who has previous negative feedbacks but since i canceled the finished auction i cant figure how to leave negative feedback. it seems like the ebay pages wont allow it. is that possible? this guy needs to be warned of
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dryophelia
Mentor2 years ago@peterbilt88
Sellers that want to be warned about such things will have their buyer requirements set to block bidders with unpaid item strikes. Feedback means nothing.
eBay hasn’t allowed negative feedback for buyers since George W. Bush was president.
peterbilt88
OP2 years agookay i see the point now. basically its a load of crap. why even offer a feedback option if you cant flame idiots like the clown who just ran my auction up to a very high dollar amount then didnt follow through and as a double whammy outbid two bidders who i do sell alot of items to costing me about 200 bucks.
woodland_gnome
·2 years agoSellers can't leave negative (or neutral) feedback for buyers because too many sellers were using the threat of negative retaliation to discourage less than positive feedback from buyers no matter how warranted it was. And then if the threat wasn't enough, they would leave a scathing negative feedback for the buyer and seek a "mutual withdrawal." Since accurate and honest feedback for the seller is so much more important than for the buyer (all buyers have the ability to examine the seller's feedback profile before anything happens, while the seller is seldom able to do so and there are issues with taking action after the fact) eBay did away with negative and neutral feedback for buyers in 2008 and banned getting around that by leaving a negative comment on a positive rating.
On the other hand the Buyer Requirement that blocks those with 2 or more strikes in the past 12 months (or the more lenient settings available) acts automatically to block bids, offer, and BINs from serial deadbeats (IF their sellers used the proper unpaid item process) and so is far more effective than expecting to be able to react to feedback.
peterbilt88
OP2 years agowow that stopped in 2008 . guess i should count my lucky stars this is the first buyer to screw me in several thousand transactions. thanks for the help guys because i did learn about using the bidder qualification option to weed out stroke jobs like this ass hat. have a nice week everybody