@iamalwaysright wrote:
@movieman630 wrote:
Still not a valid argument against protecting the accounts of sellers who have an emergency. If ebay loses good sellers because of that, that's a bad business decision. There is a way to make it work and avoid "abuse" which I can't see because you don't make money and can lose money if you use the function. There's literally no benefit to using it unless you have an emergency.
You can't leave your listings visible during either. It's essentially "time away" without visibility and sales. It's protection of your account. That benefits ebay and the seller. The buyer benefits because they're notified that the seller had an emergency and they can cancel and refund or wait. If I'm buying a "collectible widgit" I don't mind waiting a few days or a weeks. If I'm buying something I need right away, I'll just cancel and buy it from someone else. It wouldn't make me mad at ebay if I knew someone had an emergency. My first thought would be "Geez I hope their ok".
Have faith in people. Nobody is going to say "ebay's the worst" because some seller had an emergency.
I just had a thought that might improve your Sick Day button idea. The popular opinion is that the major issue with it is that this will be abused. Regardless if you agree or not with it, that's the part of the issue that needs to be addressed. Here's my idea(s).
1) Your account will enter a sort of Probation Period when you apply the Sick Time Away.
2) This Probation will have a lengthy minimum duration. Like 30 days. For 30 days minimum your listings will not be visible, nor can you make any sales.
3) You will not be able to create any new seller accounts within this Probation period.
4) Once your Probation period is up (30 days minimum) and you want to be reinstated, you'll have to go thru a lengthy and vigorous process that will include providing documentation. Once approved, all of your penalties caused by the sick day will be expunged and your previous seller level will be retained. If you don't try to reinstate your account, it will eventually be restricted or banned.
This plan I think is an improvement of yours. Sellers would have to decide if it's worth saving their seller level status to have ebay expunge their accounts. It may also deter abusive sellers using it nilly willy. Your thoughts? I doubt ebay would ever do this though.
So your solution to a person who may have just had open heart surgery is to cause them undue punitive damages to their ability to provide for themselves and their family during what most normal people would call "desperate times"?
Seems heartless and without compassion.
I'd think perhaps charging them a % of the final value fees for all sales buyers choose to have refunded due to their situation would be a more fitting deterrent from "abuse". I hear "abuse" mentioned but still have yet to have anyone make a real argument about as to what that so called "abuse" could actually be.
There would be zero benefit to someone claiming false emergency unless they don't want to make money and possibly even have to give refunds.
We're all here to sell. Why would anyone shut off their ability to sell for no reason what so ever. And I argue this. What business is it of yours if someone has an Emergency? What if someone uses it when their child is being born? Not a classic definition of emergency but to that person, in their life, it warrants taking a day off.
