Why does eBay no longer allow negative feedback?????

Question

If you are a seller you can't leave negative posts about the buyer. What's up with that???????

What if the guy doesn't pay, shouldn't others know that they are stiffs?????

Answer 1

Are you sure about this, i have a friend that has up to 60 days to post a negative rating on a guy he sold a car to..he sold it as is, the guys

complaining from the word go.. my friend...even offered to buy the vehicle back for the exact price he sold it for....guy still bitching, yet i have info he sold the car for $7,200.00 more than what he paid for it.

Do you have that in writing somewhere that no negative feedback is

permitted ???

Answer 2

Coulda, woulda, shoulda.. Ebay is a money making enterprise, they ain't gonna shoot themselves in the foot.

Answer 3

Ebay is the biggest rip off scam on the Internet.

Answer 4

Sellers who leave negative feedback do not do so in order to "warn other sellers".  They do it because they are petty and vindictive.

Think about it.  Do you, as a seller, watch your auctions carefully and cancel all bids from anyone with a negative feedback comment?  No, you don't.  So what purpose does negative feedback from sellers serve?

Use your Buyer Requirements to block people with unpaid item strikes.  Simple.  Effective.

Answer 5

it is hurting business to much.

Answer 6

It's because sellers who received negative or neutral feedback were retaliating by leaving bad feedback to the buyers.

If a buyer doesn't pay you now have to report it to e-bay to deal with. It's not fair for the majority of fair sellers though, who only leave honest feedback.

Answer 7

There were too many rogue sellers leaving retaliatory negatives for buyers, which threw the feedback system completely out of whack as it meant buyers were scared to leave negative feedback, even for BAD sellers.

Business generally operates on the principle that "the customer is always right", and it's only fair that the buyer (i.e. customer) gets more protection in this case.

If a buyer doesn't pay, you can take it up with eBay via other avenues. The ability to leave negative feedback for buyers was being abused by far too many sellers, with people basically saying "I know I'm a bad seller and totally stuffed you around, but I don't want anyone else to know this, so either leave positive feedback for me, or I'm going to give YOU a negative". eBay's attitude was basically, if you're not going to play nice then we're going to take away your toys. Which is fair enough in my opinion.

Another problem with eBay is that there are too many sellers on the site now (including far too many who are selling total junk that no-one wants), and not enough buyers. So eBay may have decided to take steps to thin out the seller base (sort out the wheat from the chaff if you like), and attract more buyers to the service, and this is one possible method for doing that.