eBay

mr.whiskers · ‎12-20-2017

I want to know why a seller can't leave negative feedback on a buyer? I had a person that has purchaed an item from and is now refusing to pay for it. The feedback showed 100% but yet when I start looking at the person's feedback over 85% of it is sellers having problems getting their money from said person. I want to know why this person is still allowed to be on Ebay? Instead of picking on the sellers so much why don't they work on the buyers. I have had them lie to me, not pay and Ebay looks the other way. This is totally not fair especially in this case since this is a Christmas item and Christmas is Monday.

nawlinsron2 · ‎12-20-2017

Buyers are gold...sellers are tin...and a dime a dozen.

If buyers paid the fees, it would be reversed.

southern*sweet*tea · ‎12-20-2017

Had just TWO of those sellers who negged filed unpaid item reports, that buyer would not have been able to bid/buy at all, providing sellers block those with two or more unpaid item strikes in a year. Can a neg do that for you?

Think about it.

The easier you are to offend the easier you are to control.

We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did. - Thomas Sowell

best_vintage_photos · ‎12-20-2017

@southern*sweet*tea wrote:
Had just TWO of those sellers who negged filed unpaid item reports, that buyer would not have been able to bid/buy at all, providing sellers block those with two or more unpaid item strikes in a year. Can a neg do that for you?

Think about it.

Good point. Back in the earlier days of eBay a buyer's account could and was suspended if they got three non paying bidder strikes. And buyers could get negative feedbacks as well.

Some sellers get nervous when a buyer with zero FB bids on their items. Just imagine how these sellers would feel if the buyer had a -3 FB score.

secretsquirrelisnowhere · ‎12-23-2017

The horse has tragically passed away, please stop beating it.

sockmonkeydave · ‎12-23-2017

@secretsquirrelisnowhere

@secretsquirrelisnowhere wrote:
The horse has tragically passed away, please stop beating it.

Oh the irony.. yet sellers can still block buyers with a negative FB score...

as if any buyer can go back to the year 2008...

the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth · ‎12-23-2017

So there were bad comments there yet you let the person buy? How much good did those rule breaking sellers do for you?

file and close the uid. Set your bidder blocks as strong as possible. We are not going back to 2008 and negatives never worked anyway. Would you rather force a buyer to buy something they don’t want because the things you can suffer are far worse than no payment. Since most sales are sniped or binned you won’t see them coming anyway

looks like most of your auctions have one bid. Set your listings to fixed price with immediate payment required and no best offer. Problem solved.

poppyswag · ‎12-23-2017

@sockmonkeydave wrote:
@secretsquirrelisnowhere
@secretsquirrelisnowhere wrote:
The horse has tragically passed away, please stop beating it.
Oh the irony.. yet sellers can still block buyers with a negative FB score...
as if any buyer can go back to the year 2008...

Oh but if anyone could it would be you Dave, in style, flying a little beauty back in time...

sockmonkeydave · ‎12-23-2017

@poppyswag

@poppyswag wrote:
@sockmonkeydave wrote:
@secretsquirrelisnowhere
@secretsquirrelisnowhere wrote:
The horse has tragically passed away, please stop beating it.
Oh the irony.. yet sellers can still block buyers with a negative FB score...
as if any buyer can go back to the year 2008...

Oh but if anyone could it would be you Dave, in style, flying a little beauty back in time...

New story soon at the bar, not time travel, but travel near the speed of light.

OP 99.999% of sales we never know the buyer until after the fact.

uncle.steven · ‎12-23-2017

The way I see it, there is no point to negative feedback for a buyer. We don't know who is going to buy from us until they actually buy it, so how does their buyer feedback matter. We don't have a crystal ball or can see into the future who's going to buy and then add them to our blocked buyer list prior to them buying.

So, what I have done is set it up where I have require immediate payment and I have not had a problem since with a buyer not paying.

Those who do not use require immediate payment, make sure that you open a case for non-payment. The more strikes they have against them, eventually they will not be able to buy anymore. It eventually catches up to them.