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WHAT HAPPENS IF THEY DON'T PAY, DOES EBAY PAY THE SELLERS FEES, WHAT A BUNCH OF BULLSH*TT.
MarkP40 said:WHAT HAPPENS IF THEY DON'T PAY, DOES EBAY PAY THE SELLERS FEES, WHAT A BUNCH OF BULLSHITT.
MarkP40 said:Sorry I will not sell to someone under a 98 feedback as a seller I will not go thru to BS of not getting paid. Going forward if I have problems with a buyer I will give positive feedback but under description I will blast them .
MarkP40 said:I stipulate they must contact me before bidding if under 98 percent.
MarkP40 said:I stipulate they must contact me before bidding if under 98 percent.
Yes, but will anyone notice? Or maybe this way of leaving negative fb will become common practice and people will start reading/checking positives?Hawkeye said:As sellers we can not leave a red negative sign, but can we not leave a negative message in the message box when we leave the mandatory positive feedback?
I think Ebay will delete a negative comment left when the buyer complains, wait and see.Hawkeye said:As sellers we can not leave a red negative sign, but can we not leave a negative message in the message box when we leave the mandatory positive feedback?
Willy McCoy said:Could it be that the majority of sellers had a tendency to hold the buyers hostage with the feedback thing? Through the mis-use of this tactic the majority of sellers have really screwed the few sellers that didn't. Sellers will have to be more communicative and solutions based. Inspection of the item, an accurate item description, offering only trackable shipping options, a promptness in answering a buyers concerns gladly, and learning how to pack an item securely. Accountability. Kind of like how one would expect a business to conduct itself. I'm not looking to make anyone unhappy with this post as much as I am glad to talk to the sellers here to find out the other side of the story.
Willy McCoy said:Good questions. Put a statement in your description that If someone from outside the US wants to bid on your auction you'll not be responsible for confiscated items if the buyer doesn't want track-able shipping, or better yet foriegn buyers MUST purchase insured/track-able shipping. I suspect that you do not sell junk and therefore do not attract shoddy buyers. Look at the buyers feedback to ascertain if they are assholes or whiners. If suspicious cancel the bid. There are a lot of creative solutions for your concerns.
Hacker's 100% correct. There's lots of things you can suggest that make perfect sense in theory and, that would seem to any logical person, a good way to do things, but they are simply impossible to put into practice. As things stand, once a bidder wins an auction (something you can only prevent if you have blocked them after a previous bad experience), he literally has the seller over a barrel. I have to say, that a large % of buyers are no problem at all and I get a lot of regulars/returners which I'm always thankful of because then you don't have that seed of doubt.They may sound good on paper, but often do not work
It's an interesting point. What's the value of positive feedback if that's all a seller can give to a buyer? It becomes meaninglessSo there is no way to weed out bad or dishonest buyers. They will all have 100% ratings because no negative feedback, how can sellers protect themselves ?