posted on October 14, 2000 07:41:13 AM new
Yes I agree that EBAY is a marketplace. That is a given. But also this MarketPlace has rules for the good of the entire Marketplace Community and one of them is the feedback ability. If, for an example, your shop in real life had a lovely storefront and you had a nice clean area in front of your store, but the neighboring store had garbage and *rats* crawling all over the place, I am sure you would not hesitate to file a complaint with the city, after first trying to resolve the garbage and rat problem with the shopkeeper next door. The blight on your realtime store is no different then the blight the deadbeats have on our virtual businesses. I refuse to allow the fear of a retaliatory neg prevent me from doing what I can, as a responsible member of this selling community to keep my virtual storefont clear of garbage and rats. Period!
[ edited by furkidmom on Oct 14, 2000 07:42 AM ]
I will not risk tarnishing my reputation by leaving negative feedback for a buyer and recieving one in return to help other sellers.
If everybody followed your policy, then nobody would leave feedback at all, and it would become common knowledge that feedback ratings were meaningless, making your "reputation" on eBay worthless. The only way for your system to work (for you anyway, but since you're in competition with all the other sellers on eBay, that's all that counts) and still allow feedback to maintain some semblance of relevancy is for others to continue leaving feedback (even negatives, if necessary).
Do you give positive feedback to your buyers? Why? It wouldn't be because you'd like them to do the same for you, would it?
Check the feedback of the last person that you left a negative for. You did not stop them from buying, only buying from you. What a fool.
I stopped someone from buying from me by posting a negative? Hardly- they received a negative because they refused to pay for the item they bid on. I would have had no problem selling to them, but they chose to disregard their obligation.
Or do you mean that, by giving them a negative for not completing the transaction, they refused to bid on any more of my auctions and bid on auctions of other sellers instead? If that's the case, well, as far as I'm concerned, mission accomplished. One thing I don't need is a bidder who wins but won't pay. You can have mine if you like.
posted on October 14, 2000 02:27:21 PM new
I, for one, have cancelled a high bid for excessive negatives. I also sell for a living, and I need to be reasonably sure that the money is going to arrive in a timely manner. I don't do "off Ebay" deals, so I'll cancel a high bid, if I see that the person has a history of non-payment/failure to respond, in favor of a bidder who has a good feedback rating.
posted on October 22, 2000 01:28:13 PM new
GRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!! Just happened to check my "Feedback Left" to see if I'd left feedback on another bidder, and came across the neg I'd left for this bidder with her response:
Response: The sellers have been contacted to resolve this misunderstanding/problem.
I don't think so!!!! Never heard a word from her until AFTER I filed the FVF credit request. Hmmm.....guess I was just as inaccurate in my response (she did write to say she still wanted to pay for the item AFTER the FVF was credited). OOPS!:
Follow-up: No response except to this feedback. FVF credit received.
<SIGH> I suppose I WILL end up getting a neg out of this deal.
