Why is it no longer possible to leave negative feedback on a buyer?

[agrussner]

It's a joke now trying to sell something on eBay. Since you can't leave negative feedback for deadbeat buyers that commit to buying something and then never follow through and just ignore any emails you send them. Where is the deterrent from them doing it again? If that's the way eBay runs it now I might as well just bid on things until I win the auction and then decide after if I really want it. eBay needs to do a better job of vetting  members prevent new accounts from bidding on items the day they are created. Even the accounts that have been members for many years pull this crap all the time and just ignore the invoices and they can't get a negative mark on their account.

[vintagecraze50]

About 2o years ago. LOL.

[magic*moonbeams]

IMO feedback for buyers, while I do leave it for them myself is POINTLESS as far as a review on the person, I leave it as a thank you and appreciation for their business.  But if you can only say good things or nothing at all, that's not a true review of anything or anyone in any given situation anywhere in any circumstance of life lol.  If you could leave negatives and the buyers still have all 100% positives, well then that is a true review of them.   Scammers who have 100% positive feedback is a crock anyway.  Sellers should AT LEAST be able to leave a negative for non-payers once the listing is cancelled after the 4 day grace period the buyers have to say, with the given reason for the cancellation being "non-payment".

I do know back in the day sellers would leave "retaliatory" negative feedback for buyers who left them negs, but apparently that was no longer OK, but it IS still OK for buyers to leave sellers bogus feedbacks that are full of lies. 

Just goes along with the rest of the totally backwards way things are now run on here.  People who weren't here back in the day, like 20 years ago, have no idea how GOOD it USED to be and that is truly sad.

[johnrj1226]

Don't know when eBay disallowed neg FB for a buyer but when I started selling one Bay  on January 10, 2010 sellers could only leave positive FB for buyers.   eBay no doubt posted this policy change  in an ANNOUNCEMENT..  Not a bad thing as an exchange of words doesn't really resolve anything.  Just leads to hard feelings.  That and nickle will only allow  one to buy a cup of coffee at Wall Drug in Wall, South Dakota.  And the price hasn't changed since the summer of 1976 the last time I was there..

[coolections]

We need the mods to have a sticky post with the 18 reasons why buyers do not get negative feedback. OP the biggest reason is for a seller to thank a buyer for putting food on your table. Nonpayers are not buyers.

[soh.maryl]

"I don't like that immediate payment on best offers is only for certain sellers."

Don't understand.  Any seller can set up listings with FP and IPR.  Why do you think it's limited to certain sellers? 

So you know of a buyer who does not pay ever, but just starts a new ID periodically? Not sure how you'd know that he does this, but does anyone ask eBay to check him out? 

[iart]

Black magic curses are still an option. Candles, voodoo dolls and foul smelling incense are available on eBay.

[mrdutch1001]

because eBay says so and this is eBay's site, eBay's rules

and that's why you have the option to block an eBay member

[this*old*attic]

Are you serious?

 It’s been 12 years - and because of revenge feedback, like you wish you could do.

[transamcc]

In the early days negative feedback was possible for everyone, including buyers.  Sellers WEAPONIZED feedback to neg about every buyer who ever left them a negative, or neutral  no matter how well deserved it was.  Net result was intimidation of good solid buyers who only gave deserved feedbacks with great aforethought and honesty. Many buyers , including me were intimidated to the point of non-purchase from certain sellers. I still have those sellers marked to exclude their listings from all of my bookmarked searches. The negative feedback for  buyers prohibition happened in May 2008, but you are still excluded from my saved searches if you are still here.

[7606dennis]

Sellers have only been permitted to leave positive feedback for buyers or none at all since 2008.  Are you just now learning of this?

[chapeau-noir]

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@skeletonstore wrote:

I've posted twice since last year about the most egregious default buyer on the site.  Many sellers left him false positives.  On his 1st account he would sometimes be able to buy but other times was blocked.  He eventually couldn't use that user ID and started a new one and picked right back up where he left off. He was able to agree to purchase if he was sent an offer,  an ebay glitch they have never addressed that i pointed out.  I'm not talking 3 or 4 or 10 or 11 defaults,  I'm talking many dozens if not hundreds between the two account over the course of say a year and a half.  That buyer is still active as of this past month with a 147 positive reviews in the past month, half of which are false positives.  People are giving him negatives and he just keeps trucking.  They haven't stopped him and I doubt if his feedback was in red he'd be stopped either.  There was a time on ebay if a seller got too many negatives they were booted or a buyer who left too many negatives.  That was ages ago from what I remember.  I don't like that immediate payment on best offers is only for certain sellers.

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@skeletonstore It's not an option for sellers yet, it's groups of buyers who are being beta tested for immediate payment for best offers.  I'm not sure where the program is right now, but I'm hoping it rolls out for sellers to opt in to.  They have to test it on buyers, first, to see reaction.

[skeletonstore]

I know because people on this board tell me so and it was in announcements a while back. How can you miss a buyer who never pays?  Just look at his feedback.  Then several months later see another defaulter and recognize the picture in his profile and same MO in his feedback.  I told ebay,  I mentioned it on this board and mods cut up my post.  

[skeletonstore]

I'm perfect for that,  I know how to trigger offers to test things out 😄 although of late ebay is triggering less.  I don't see the problem only the worst case scenarios because some of my items can attract extremists.  I also want to be able to set the offer time table to what i feel is reasonable.  You know like 1 hour  :D.  

[katzrul15]

Why the "rash" of these threads about Seller dismay over FB options and no negs for a Buyer? 

Online selling might not be for some sellers if the minute the sale goes awry, all that Seller wants is to be retalitory vs working to resolve the Buyer issue.  Be better, do better!

[atavium]

I believe they should bring back negative feedback. It is a deterrent for idiots that want to try and scam. It also is good so sellers can review someone before accepting an offer.