I buy everything from the sellers on Amazon now. MUCH better deals, inflated shipping charges are extremely rare, no waiting for auctions to end, and if you have a problem, Amazon takes care of it immediately.

FIRST you can REPLY to feedback. (ebay needs to increase the length of feedback too)

Second most buyers do not really CARE about feedback especially when you have 3,000 or 10,000 feedbacks.

Third there DESIRE to have the goodie OVERRIDE minor feedback inconvenience.

THIRD its EASY for sellers to simply create a new account if they have to. this is why being scammed by a seller is so rampant. its painfull easy for a seller to RESET.

to a buyer there is almost no difference between a 10 feedback seller and a 10,000 feedback seller. IF YOU HAVE WHAT THEY WANT THEY WILL BID. its the nature of human beings.

its not so easy for buyers to make a new account. its a sellers market on ebay a buyer sometimes has to EARN the right to BUY by getting positive feedback so “starting over” is a problem for buyers. They are also not in it for gain most of the time so its a lot of WORK for them as well.

only a tiny amount of work for the scammer.

and again if the feedback is a real problem ebay should have some for of arbitration.

make it a FEE based arbitration but if the seller is vindicated REFUND the fee.

so again it comes down to ebay policy.

The only thing you should concern yourself with is getting paid. as long as I PAY YOU that is all my duty entails. I owe you NOTHING else.

when I goto a store and buy something. I give them my money and that is IT. I owe them NOTHING ELSE.

When they had feedback both ways 90% of my sellers NEVER got feedback from me for the simple reason that I REFUSE to leave feedback to a seller until they FIRST leave me feedback. Non negotiable.

There should NEVER HAVE EVER BEEN feedback for buyers. Ebay should be nearly ZERO RISK for sellers (who use their brains)

The problem is not feedback. The problem is EBAY POLICY.

What right do you have to leave me feedback as a BUYER? feedback for sellers is almost inconsequential to the buyer. bad feedback for buyers is CRIPPLING.

Buyers can be for all intents and purposes banned from ebay because of some nasty untrue feedback. Sellers will CANCEL your bid if you had negs. ITs also a lot harder for buyers to GET feedback than for sellers.

The problem becomes that sellers KNOW feedback hurts buyers more than it hurts sellers so they use feedback as a weapon.

How often do you see I will leave positive feedback for you after you leave positive feedback for me.

Note how they added the vieled threat “positive” in their.

The implications are clear. I am going to use your feedback as a WEAPON to prevent you from leaving me negative feedback.

since it does far more damage to me than you the buyer elects to not leave feedback at all. or worse they get freaked and capitulate and leave positive feedback after getting screwed.

in the “real world” when do you EVER get to leave “feedback” for the customers? NEVER. its absurd.

what happens when a customer picks something up (bids) and then decides not to buy it?

Easy you put the damned thing back up on the shelf. Woopee.

now this is not quite the same on ebay but you get the idea.

here is where the ebay policy becomes a problem. they charged you whether the buyer follows through or not.

now the solution is easy. no sale NO FEES

did ebay do this? NO they created “strikes” and other such “crap” so they could still CHARGE YOU for the auction.

ebay is greedy.

now there is a counter problem to this. Sellers can scam the system. no bids sell outside ebay get profit avoid fees.

Well again this is an EBAY problem. Again they got greedy and charged too much damned money. So sellers gamed it to REDUCE the fee load.

thats why you see $5 item with $45 shipping.

solution? stop screwing the sellers and charge FAIR fees. I stopped selling large things on ebay because the fee’s were killing me. I sold a few cars for example.

do you know what happens if you sell it? $80 in fee’s holy shit! the car only sold for $700 over 11% of the sale price!

Know what happens if you DONT sell it? you STILL get socked for $40

Consider if it takes me 3 or 4 times to sell the car.

thats $200 to ebay. Not worth it anymore.

you just earned NOTHING but you now owe ebay $40. needless to say I stopped selling my old cars on ebay. Craigslist is a hassle but its FREE.

The core problem here is ebay charges too much. this entices sellers to CHEAT.

the solution is STOP CHARGING SO MUCH but ebay’s solution is draconian rules.

ie its going to be there undoing. sure they will last for a while longer they have a ton of inertia. but its going to come to a head its its going to be the death of ebay.

Lets not even get into the SCAM that is paypal. I use it because I have to but I use it carefully.

if you must give paypal a bank account never have more than a couple dollars in there. and make sure you have CASH IN HAND before you ship anything. that means you take your PAYPAL debit card go withdrawal the money and THEN you ship it and not a second sooner.

the problem is definately NOT the buyers.

the buyers just do what buyers do. the solution to that is easy. Stop charging the sellers for buyer screw ups.

for time sensitive stuff learn to use the courts if a seller burns you just like in the real world.

This Donahoe guy is only bad news for Ebay, how long will it take them to figure this one out?
Probably when its too late, I suspect.

Come on over to my place. Yeehhe we’re havin a party. We’ll be singing, dancing and swaying, just come over to my place.

Regardless, though, I spoke with the supervisor named “Owen” today in the customer service department. As I was asking when the policies would stabilize, he actually told me, and I am not kidding or misrepresenting anything on this: “When Ebay installed these policies, we knew some sellers would not make it under the new system, even the good sellers. It is an acceptable write-off.”

Considering I am/was in the top 1% of Ebay powersellers (as assured several times by Ebay itself), that told me all I needed to know right there. So I’m an acceptable loss, makes me worry about who’s staying behind.

THERE IS NO FRELLING SHIPPING CHARGES. there is only ONE CHARGE. the AMOUNT YOU HAVE TO PAY. THATS IT. Nothing else matters.

IS THE AMOUNT YOU HAVE TO PAY more or LESS than what its worth or what your willing to pay or what you can pay for it soemwhere else for?

I am sick of GREEDY whiners going hey its $1 but $50 shipping for a $120 FRELLING ITEM !!!!!

LETS look at the ROOT CAUSE.

Ebay SCREWING SELLERS. if ebay was not so damned greedy with there fees NONE of this would be a problem.

YOU KNOW its really easy to solve the non paying bidder problem. DON”T FRELLING CHARGE THE SELLERS FEES FOR THOSE!

WOW that was so hard. but no ebay greed.

If its NOT time sensitive SO WHAT. forget it. Should be NO DIFFERENT then me getting to the register and going ehh never mind don’t want it.

FOR TIME sensitive stuff (holidays tickets etc..) where doing this RUINS the value GO AFTER the people!!! Ebay should fascilitate this. Saying it will chase away buyers is like complaining about STORE SECURITY because it will chase away buyers.

#1 EDUCATE your buyers and sellers and #2 any that still run away are too dumb to be on your site OR AT THE VERY ONES YOU WANT to chase away !!

but EBAY gets paid whether you get scammed or not HENCE why they don’t really work hard to fix this.

you should NEVER be able to leave feedback for the buyer. WHAT ALIEN PLANET ARE YOU FROM!!

Show me ONE normal real world store where you “RATE” the shoppers or leave them feedback? Are you kidding me?

If a buyer becomes a problem you freaking BOOT THEM.

but no ebay wants there fees.

I had ebay take down an auction because I was charging too much for shipping. $9.50 – MY ACTUAL cost to ship that item NOT counting my time thats properly built into the cost of the item.

Thats priority mail shipping Packaging (bubble wrap VERY expensive but it works well) and my gasoline round trip to the PO. (at the then $4+ a gallon it added almost $3 to the cost of shipping a package (I sell VERY little so when I goto the PO its JUST to ship that nothing else I never have to go that direction for anything else)

I refused to lower my shipping. I even provided reciepts for my materials costs. $5 to $6 to the PO $1.50 in bubblewrap and $3 in gasoline. If there not LOCAL I actually EAT a dollar of the shipping !!

I told them my prices were NOT negotiable I would not change them and I refused to pay the fees (they refunded them eventually) eventually they simply stopped replying. I stopped selling on ebay. There loss not mine. I have been on ebay since early 1998.

EBAY needs to fix THERE END of this crap.

AT LEAST they finally fixed feedback. No more one shot phasers for sellers to BEAT buyers over the head with.

When a seller gets negged its irrelevant most of the time. YOU WANT what they offer you will overlook it and they can just sign up for a new account.

A negative to a BUYER could be FATAL could even PREVENT THEM from buying on ebay and having to start at ZERO with a new account is ALMOST as bad!!

its very biased. The seller could PREVENT the buyer from leaving negative feedback simply by NOT leaving feedback for the buyer. the veiled threat of set. GO ahead and neg me and I will neg you back and its gonna hurt you more than its gonna hurt me.

Result? DESERVED negs do not get left for bad sellers and NO ONE KNOWS there bad sellers as a result.

Sellers say but what is a noob of quick trigger pulls the neg bomb on me? THATS WHAT REPLYING TO FEEDBACK IS FOR YOU MORON.

THATS LIFE. Thats Business! Have you SEEN the “negative” sites that exist for almost ALL retail stores? pay pal sucks best buy sucks circuit city sucks etc.. etc.. etc.. etc..

THATS LIFE. Get over it.

the problem is EBAY screwed you either way. THATS why the sellers have to take these tactics.

One seller can PUSH another out by “undercutting” them.

but the legitimate seller can not meet that price without LOSING MONEY. the fraud seller can AFFORD to “pay” out in losses till he puts the legit seller out of business then he can resume normal prices and profits. One way to do this is to TRANSFER some of the cost to shipping where there is no fees. you can now afford to lower your price by the AMOUNT of the fees saved (which can be a few dollars on some items!)

the legit seller does not have this luxury so they fold or try to adopt the same practice.

a $1 item with $49 shipping is NO DIFFERENT to the end user who has SOME BRAIN matter left than $44 and $6 shipping.

YOUR GOING TO PAY $50 no matter what. shut your greedy frelling mouth up about excessive shipping!

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR this crap makes me mad.

EBAY is the bad guy here not the sellers not the buyers. there should NEVER have been feedback against buyers and a seller should NEVER have to pay fees for a sale that FAILS.