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Bad feedback I left for a seller disappeared
I'm pretty **bleep** off about this. I've been a buyer and seller on ebay since 1999. Recently I bought an item and the seller subbed a much cheaper product. I contacted them, they offered me a refund - but I had to send back the $3.00 item first. I'm not driving 25 miles to the post office to mail back a $3.00 item, when I ordered a $14.00 item. I threw it in the trash and left bad feedback for the seller. The first time in 21 years I've ever left bad feedback. Now it has disappeared. I was never contacted for "my side of the story".
Ebay treats their sellers like this and then wonders why Amazon and Etsy are destroying them.
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kh-jean
·2 years agoHi everyone,
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etacarina11
·5 years agoFeedback should be allowed to be given regardless whether or not the buyer returns the item....you are letting people know about what you think of the transaction with the seller. If Ebay don't want to allow that then the feedback system is useless and should be dumped altogether.
computer-repairs-and-more
·2 years agoI am a seller of electronics and deal with fraud and people pulling game on us all the time, we have those wonderful buyers that buy something, rob the parts off of it then need then try to return it, we have had so many different fraud buyers it is unreal, my point of this is to explain simple logic, most of the time when I find what someone is doing like returning something "not as described" they usually do this just to get a free return shipping, that is fraud and it comes out of our pocket, when this happens alot it costs quite a bit, it does happen with 90% of the people who create returns but being the one that tests and repairs I do know what is possible and what is not.
When you fight the return or get the actual return and find someone is pulling a fast one you then deduct accordingly, this usually ends with ebay paying the person the difference and it is sad because what they are doing is supporting the fraud, we have seller protection which gives us this option, we almost always get negative feedback when this happens, I always fight to get it removed because it is always breaking the ebay terms of service, people will always lie and tell some lame story about what happened, when they do this you can have it removed just based on the lying, it is a defamation lawsuit just waiting to happen really.
I honestly am very tired of people committing fraud on our store as we do not make that much from the sales on ebay, our source is too high priced but that is another story.
I have left negative feedback on someone that honestly deserved it and did not lie a bit, cannot remember what it was now but it was deserved, ebay removed it a few days later, I do agree that there are sellers that are very shady and deserve it, can think of about six right off hand, best neg. feedback you can leave in my opinion is "I would not buy from this person again", short simple and to the point.
Unavailable member
·2 years agoThree yr old Zombie thread.
The OP hasn’t been in this forum in 3yrs, I doubt they even see your response.
luckythewinner
·5 years agoI was never contacted for "my side of the story".
eBay never has and never will contact a buyer to get "their side of the story". I do not believe Amazon or Etsy do this either.
I'm not driving 25 miles to the post office to mail back a $3.00 item
If you filed a "Not As Described" dispute with eBay, eBay should have issued you a return postage shipping label. So you do not need to go to the post office; the USPS can pick it up at your location.
and then wonders why Amazon and Etsy are destroying them
I didn't realize that eBay thought Etsy was destroying them. What is your source for this information about eBay's state of mind?
oldwestcoins
·5 years agoThe Post Office picks up at your door for free. No need to drive anywhere. So that's should be used as a crutch. It takes about 5 seconds to open a pick-up request online.
ajs_coins_and_alchemy
·2 years agoYou can even leave it in your mailbox so you don't have to meet the carrier. You do the package pickup request and it gives you a slew of options for the pick up (ring doorbell, in mailbox, porch, back of house, side door, etc...)