Reply to "eBay has lost their collective mind"

Kahn,

Just do the Non-paying Bidder alert thing.

This puts a ding on the deadbeat's account. Enough dings in a short period of time and he gets the boot.

Second, once you start a NPB claim, the buyer cannot ding you with a negative! This actually protects you from retaliatory feedback.

JUST DO IT!

This second thing is a change that ebay instituted after all the smoke settled from their "no neg's by sellers" policy went into place......

Ebay forgot who was paying their bills.....

My latest negative was from a guy that, after receiving a factory book of truck wiring diagrams, decided that because they were not plastic laminated and in color, that he didn't want them...... I'm thinking that he either fixed his truck or copied the pages he needed....

I 'splained to him that this was not Walmart and you do not have return options unless there was something grossly damaged in shipping, or massively described improperly...or I sent him the wrong year etc. Plus being that this was a paper manual, I couldn't know if he had a)fixed his truck or b) copied the manual....

This wasn't good enuf for him, so he dinged me for "not working to resolve a problem" (no problem, he bid, he paid, I shipped, he received. No damages mentioned or issues with the condition of the book.....)

AND here's the kicker....he complained about "over shipping fees"!!!! ...it shipped for free. DUH!!!

So, I had already left a positive feedback for his part of the deal, but I get a negative....asswipe!

Now, I was able to go in and effectively enter a rebuttal to his comment...in 75 characters or less! Try and explain to the world that the guy is an idiot...without saying that...! Cuz ebay will whack your peepee if you get out of line with a messed up buyer!!! You could find yourself getting bounced off!!!

I contacted CS about getting it removed....to no avail. Didn't meet their requirements.....

Now, next new feature that ebay instituted to help sellers out, is that negative feedbacks go away in a years time, I believe, as long as you keep your record clean! Certainly it is now a much shorter time frame than the 7 or so years it used to take to go from 99.9% for one neg in 1500....back to 100% Sorta like tickets on your driving record....just need to wait for them to age....and fall off.....hmm reminds me of something else.....

Ciao!
Steve