Anyone agree that a buyer with a guest account should have 100% buyer protections forfeited?

[lordskylark]

With guest accounts, I can block any buyer's account, then they can just go and make a guest account. If a buyer is banend from ebay, they can just go and use a guest account (I know there are otherways they do this do, but the subject is guest accounts). So, if the buyer is too lazy to make a guest account or is doing so simply to bypass someone blocking their normal account, I say that there needs to be a penalty to do so or there's not even good reason for a buyer to have an account at all. So, I say that all guest accounts 100% forfeit buyer protection. That means, even if the seller sends you 100% incorrect item, you have no ability to request a return or get your money back. Make a real account instead.

[luckythewinner]

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@rugerskick wrote:

You have a flawed assumption.  You assume a guest buyer is a new buyer.  Not tue same thing at all.

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A new account is not necessarily a new buyer either 🙂

[k9doglover]

Not sure why eBay would even offer guest accounts. And there is a problem for sellers when a buyer uses a guest account. Buyers who use a guest account can't see contact when their seller's message them. I believe it also creates scam opportunities.

[kensgiftshop]

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@gurlcat wrote:

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@slippinjimmy wrote:

ABSOLUTELY NOT!

Sorry about the Caps, I couldn't decide which word to capitalize.

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This made me spit out a little coffee.  Yes I am drinking coffee this late. 

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It's never to late for coffee.

[gurlcat]

I started drinking coffee at age 5, after my mom didn't register me for kindergarten in time to choose the afternoon class, so I had to go in the morning, and getting up that early made me a monster (like imagine trying to put shoes on a bobcat).   Turned out, a few ounces of coffee with milk and sugar transformed me into a cheerful sweetheart and even my teacher noticed the difference.  This should have been an early red flag about my ADHD, but I digress.  For years thereafter I was allowed only the one morning cup, and I remembered being so inspired by 'Little House On The Prairie,' how they were just steady swilling coffee at all hours of the day and night.  I thought, "When I grow up I'm going to do that." 

Unlike marrying Simon Le Bon and owning a horse ranch, this childhood dream turned out to be quite realistic.   A good 70%+ of my daily liquid intake is coffee, and unlike Charles Ingalls I'm not sucker punching people every time I turn around.  And that's because of coffee.  

[ten_o_nine]

Why? Sellers will abuse this protection, think of something else.

No agreement here.

[gurlcat]

It's funny how often a (seller) poster seems to operate on the assumption that sellers are an inherently less-scammy species than buyers.  The only reason that even appears true is because of policies that make a seller able to scam less than a buyer.   But any change involving the removal of buyer protections would show that needle moving real quick.  🤣 

[dbfolks166mt]

     I don't agree and the US courts may not either if the policy was ever challenged by a buyer. EBay can put all the policies it wants into place but the buyer can always file a chargeback. That would be the issue that would come into play if a buyer ever challenged the eBay policy. EBay would in essence be overriding, or attempting to override, the current consumer protection laws. 

[robbie31415]

It's just not possible.

Only thing eBay really could do is remove guest accounts.

Ebay can't remove a buyers rights simply because they purchased on a guest account. .