eBay bans Negative Feedback for Buyers.

09:46.55 - Thursday 22nd May 2008 (Link to This Entry)

The rumours are true, then! eBay has removed the ability for sellers to leave negative feedback on buyers who mess them about or downright rip them off with stolen credit cards, hacked PayPal accounts and so on.

While this prevents bad sellers leaving retaliatory feedback, it opens up the floodgates for scams against sellers - after all there's no reason to pay promptly, or even at all, if you can't get negged for it.

I suggest everyone leave comments along the lines of 'BRING BACK NEGATIVE FEEDBACK FOR BAD BUYERS' when leaving eBay feedback. Perhaps they'll get the message and adopt the approach of revealing feedback only once both parties have completed the process.

Until this entire feedback mess gets sorted out, I won't be selling on eBay.

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It is a big mess now with Ebay I pay over $1000.00 per month in fees to Ebay and in one year I only had 1 negative feedback now that they have changed the policy I have had 5 negatives in one month. The sellers is what keeps ebay alive but they don't give a S**t about us. We need Google to get into the auction business.
Anonymous

A Google-run auction business would be an interesting idea because it's not something eBay could simply buy up. They certainly have the resources, and it would integrate nicely with Google Checkout.
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