Ebay Sellers, Whats your take on latest feedback policy........... ???

[mehtas]

[size:11pt]Ebay sellers won't be able to leave negative or even neutral feedback to buyers.

WHAT THE.... ????

I've never heard of immunity to receive negative feedback. there will be flood of bad buyers now, sellers watch out.

Whats your take on this as a ebay seller and does the new policy worry you ?[/size]

[Kevin Connolly]

Ebay is trying out many changes, most of them for the negative. Ebay wants to go in a different direction. From what I heard is that they want to be more like Amazon. They will eventually try to eliminate the small seller all together.

There was another Ebay boycott last week. Ebay countered with a 50 cent listing week, usually it's just a day. They do feel the pressure.

What I really can't believe is that not one competitor hasn't rattled their cage. There are a couple sites online now that have 500,000 to million auctions on their sites.

My feeling are that in 5 years or less, Ebay will be totally different. Also, that a new auction site will be real competition for them.

[Richard Kaufman]

As a buyer on eBay who has been victimized by negative feedback from sellers, I am all for the new changes. Many of the sellers I have bought from are incredible idiots. Pack things carefully? I've had idiots wrap brown paper around something and send it. Others just toss the item in a large box with no packing. Dumb, dumb, dumb. And if you leave them negative feedback about that, you are victimized with retailiatory negative feedback.
I like the new system.

[Kevin Connolly]

As a buyer it's great. As a seller, it blows.

[mehtas]

Richard,

I take your point. don't you thiink the sellers side of the story must be heard as well ?

in my opinion there are lots of people out there who are opportunistic. with the new ebay feedback policy there is lot of room to explore and abuse the system. there is no way a seller would know a buyrs behavior.

This new policy will make it seems that ALL (and I mean all) the buyers out there are good.

[Richard Kaufman]

Is there another online auction site that does a lot of trade in Disneyana?

[John LeBlanc]

It seems to me the only online entity capable of possibly unseating eBay as the general online auction site would be Google. eBay owns Paypal, clearly the leader in online payments. They own Skype and haven't even started to integrate it into the auction cycle. When they do, it will make it even harder for competition to unseat them.

For all their warts, eBay delivers results, plain and simple. The change in ratings is something I can accept. Like Richard, I've run into complete idiot sellers. Leave them negative feedback they richly deserve and you are retaliated against. That lowers the value of the system.

[Scott Fridinger]

I try as little as possible to buy from Ebay, my wife on the other hand will go through spurts. We always pay right away, and have been dissappointed a few times, but we have always had good communication.

I feel that sellers have every right to post negative comments.

What is really worse for me is the price gauging you sometimes see when purchasing. "Hey buddy, watch my auction and keep the prices up, if you win, no problems..." Most of the time I have not, in my mind, had this problem with purchasing magic items. It is a community thing, and when you are buying from Billy in Taledo, you really shouldn't expect much.

I do like Craig's List. I always arrange for meeting in a very public place, and never have had a problem. But then you are resticted by area if you do it that way.

[David Alexander]

EBay will not investigate shill bidding done by large sellers. There's one photographic equipment seller who has shill bidding going on all the time. I documented it and sent my observations to eBay...bidders with less than five purchases bidding across the board on the same model camera, none of them continuing to bid once the camera reached a certain price, none of them ever actually buying the camera.

EBay responded within a day that there was nothing illegal going on even though I provided nearly a dozen examples. This is not surprising given that the seller I complained about had almost 100,000 feedbacks. Given the amount of revenue that one seller is generating, eBay isn't going to rock the boat.

[mehtas]

Glad you shared it David but the thread is about ebay's latest feedback policy to ban sellers placing negative.

[Scott Fridinger]

I think he was just responding to me.

[mehtas]

In the latest feedback count even the "Neutral" feedbacks have started to take effects.

"Neutral" means no pos. no neg. and it should not effect the feedback rating but it DOES ! !

Anybody knows how thats worked out ??

[Kevin Connolly]

I tell ya, but then I have to kill ya. :)

Wait till they force you pay only by Paypal.

[Richard Kaufman]

I only do business with sellers who accept PayPal, so that will be fine by me.

[Q. Kumber]

What's the story with ebay's positive feedback jumping?

[Naphtalia]

Thus far, I've only been a buyer. I like the two-way feedback.

I've experienced one case of revenge feedback, but suspect that with over 100 transactions over the years, that's not going to have a lot of effect on those who would consider selling to me.

I like the feeling of trust when the merchants I deal with can know a bit about my purchase history.

Just me....

By the way, in over 100 transactions, I have only had 2 bad ones.

I had one situation where the merchant had never sold anything before and disappeared after the sale without ever sending payment information. The other was just a lying S.O.B. and was my revenge rater.

I've had a few sellers where things arrived broken or shipping was delayed a bit longer than expected. They always made good. I have had really good experiences with Ebay.

[James Kernen]

The jump is a part of eBay's overall changes to their feedback policies. It now counts repeat feedback (from the same buyer) that occurs more than a week a a part from each other. Previously, you only received 1 credit for each buyer no matter how many feedbacks they left you.... eBay retroactively adjusted the feedback and gave everyone credit for their previous repeat feedbacks that could be counted per the new rules.....

James

[Richard Kaufman]

I like it. :)

[mehtas]

Intresting post from a seller called "e.pluribusunum7"

Heres the link

http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa? ... 1314773665

Its a sellers opinion there so take it with a pinch of salt.

[Jonathan Townsend]

So it's now more like the magic cafe? or less?