E Bay's New Policies

[THO Game Calls]

If you have not heard, E bay has made some changes.  Some of them take effect this month, some in May.

The big one, if you are a buyer, is that sellers can no longer leave anything but possative feedback for a buyer.  No negs, no neutrals, just possative.  This starts May 1st.

They also made some changes to fees and will be holding some sellers funds for up to 21 days on high fraud items so buyers dont get ripped off.

The Community Discussion Boards, especially in Seller Central are really going crazy over this. 

AL

[iahntr]

The feedback change doesn't look like it makes a lot of sense. 
I haven't looked at there discussion boards, but I don't understand why that would make it more fair,
or even do what the feedback feature is there for. I assume even if you leave positive feedback,
you can still say whatever you want along with it. ?

[FinsnFur]

Doesnt make sense. No negative feedback.
Ok...the guy ripped me off but I can't do nothing about it...and I have to keep it a secret?

[Kuipdog]

That negative feedback needs to be there, it helps me decide if I want to business with that person or if someone had a grudge for a stupid reason. I think this will make the fraud rate go up rather than down.

[THO Game Calls]

OK, buyers can leave negs for sellers, but sellers can no longer leave a neg for a buyer.

The reasoning behind it makes a lot of sense to me.  I have been playing on E bay for 9 or so years.  Back when the site first opened.

What is happening now, is that sellers never leave feedback until the buyer does.  They do this to blackmail the buyer into leaving a posative, even if the seller took a month to ship an item, or sent something other than what they sold.  If the buyer left a neg, the seller would neg them back.

All you have to do is hang around the Seller Central board and you would have seen it coming.  Sellers were using the threat of neg to bully buyers.

I think it's a good thing in one respect.  A lot of the sellers who are bums will end up getting the boot right off e bay.  Sure it will hurt some good sellers, but there are so many sellers who are ripping people off that has become a nightmare over there anymore.   Ask people on this board - they will tell you they wont trade on e bay because they get ripped off.  E bay is trying to clean it up a bit.  It's about time in my opinion.

They also instituted a hold of sellers funds for up to 21 days on high fraud items or when a seller has less than 95% feedback.  This way, the scam artist wont be able to open an account, sell a Wii at Christmas, demand paypal only for the payment and then never ship the item and clean the paypal account out and be gone in three days. 

And of course they raised some of the fees too.  But they do that every February.

Maybe it will be a change for the better.  I hope so.

Al

[FinsnFur]

That does make some cents

(yeah that was a pun) 

[KySongDog]

They don't call it E-Pray for nothin.   

I got in to it several years ago with a guy over a Double Bull blind he sold me which was NOT as advertised.  I went to Ebay. They said "So Sorry" but did nothing.     I ended up going to the Double Bull company and they traded out with me for a small fee.  I should have went to them to start with.

Semp

[THO Game Calls]

I don't what you had to gripe about Semp?

You wanted a double bull

you got double bull

I don't see the problem   :roflmao:   :roflmao:   :roflmao: 

My suggestion got yanked off the boards and I got a nasty note from the E bay Community Boards Monitors.

I sugested we set up E bay goon squads in different parts of the country, and if someone got ripped off, that regional goon squad went to pay the seller a little visit.

Went over like a fart in church

Al

[Bopeye]

I second Al's idea. Give them a tall tree and a short piece of rope........

[Kuipdog]

I like Al's suggestion, but I would prefer they use hickory or ash about 3ft long.