eBAY rant....

[greyhorsewoman]

If she at least paid my final value & listing fees

Ebay frowns on that, too ... you are not supposed to suggest such a thing to a non-payer. You need to file a non-payer dispute after the seven days. If she does not respond, you will get your fees back and she will get a 'strike.' The strikes are now the most important thing, because if a buyer gets enough of them, they are blocked from buying.

Ebay has become very cumbersome in the last few years. It is now tailored to the powersellers and buyers. Small sellers can be pretty much knocked out by one or two negatives, while the occasional negative doesn't impact a large seller much at all. The 'dings' from the 5 questions buyers are to answer can hurt almost as much as a negative. They can give you a positive and then a 3 on shipping time ~~ !! If your average falls below 4.2 (I think.. they've changed it a couple of times), they will RESTRICT where your auction shows up at ... yep, not EVERYBODY will see your auction.

The only thing I DO agree with is the clarification on seller's responsibility in shipping. The rule has always been there, but ebay still allowed folks to 'think' they could pass off responsibility once it left their hands. That has NEVER been the case. And, really, it shouldn't be. Can you imagine buying ANYTHING online, it never shows up, and the seller tells you... too bad??? People could sell stuff all day long and never ship it~~!!! Delivery confirmation will, in most cases, be sufficient proof of delivery to protect you from folks claiming they never got it. There will always be scammers on both sides...do as much checking as possible... read through feedback, see how long they have been selling, stay away from folks who write an ad with too many restrictions.​

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

Beats me Red, but it's been that way over a year now. A buyer can win the auction, never pay and still leave negative feedback for the seller. The seller can't do a darn thing about it, not even via feedback. Filing a complaint with ebay doesn't usually do much good.

Ebay will remove the neg feedback left when the buyer doesn't pay, the trick we have found with ebay is use their own system, they have a rule about malicious feedback so we just did a cut and paste of that and sent it back to them and the feedback was removed. Also you can select on your buyer requirements to block buyers that don't have a paypal account etc, on the same page you can select unpaid item strikes. The best way is when you get deadbeat spread the word far and wide. We may have had one yesterday, somebody with zero feedbacks bid on one of our auctions and hasn't paid yet. They did send a message but we shall see, usually my gut feelings are pretty good so i'm thinking we have a deadbeat. What would we ever do if everything went smooth. LOL

Steve​

 

[Sunny the Hippie Chick]

I did not read every post. I bet this was already mentioned. But I would file a non-paying bidder with ebay. That way ebay can take care of them.

I hate how they made it so you cant give bad feedback to buyers. Cause there is bad buyers out there. And ones that never sell. So their feedback is always 100%. Its not fair to the sellers..