eBay recently announced a policy change concerning feedback. They have mandated that buyers can only receive positive feedback, while sellers can still receive negative, neutral and positive feedback.<\/p>\n
As both an eBay buyer, and a seller, this certainly does not make any kind of sense to me. Feedback is a central part of doing business on eBay. It is a person’s reputation. This outrageous change has opened the door to buyer scamming with such mechanisms as threatening a seller with negative feedback if they don’t acquiesce to buyers demands, like free shipping, or a discounted price.<\/p>\n
As a seller, I think I will follow a new policy of not leaving any feedback at all. Since the new eBay rules make feedback meaningless anyway, there is no point. Further, as a seller, I will bar all bidders with less than a 98% positive seller feedback. Although doing so will limit my buyers, it is also the only way to have any meaningful use out of the eBay policy.<\/p>\n
One of my friends who also sells on eBay recently left a positive feedback for a problematic buyer that said: “Positively the worst buyer on eBay — Don’t sell to this person”. I guess that’s one way to handle it.<\/p>\n
It is my hope that eBay reconsider this policy and recognize the error of their ways. I have always had issues with eBay feedback in the past because feedback carries the same weight whether a transaction was for a $1.00 item, or for a $1000 item. Because of this lack of weighting, people could essentially buy their eBay reputation by purchasing trinkets for a few pennies. Again, such policies make feedback inaccurate at best. I would rather do business with a person who has 98% positive feedback on large ticket items than with a person who has 100% feedback on low cost items.<\/p>\n
Wake up eBay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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