Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Ebay Feed back
I agree with you
guys. Negative feedback is not the "champion of honesty" that some
say. I've had two negative feedbacks left on me recently, and both were
completely retaliatory. One was a buyer who never sent his payment and
then refused to resend (or even discuss the matter). He had obviously
pulled the same thing a few days before, as his feedback profile showed a
negative listing from another seller stating the exact same case. After
more than a month of sending emails which weren't answered, I left his
negative feedback. An hour later, he slammed me by leaving a negative
feedback which stated "don't trust him". This was from a guy who had a
feedback score of (1), 3 positive and 2 negative. The other was from a
seller who misrepresented the brand of the item I purchased. When
the seller refused to respond to three weeks of emails, I left a NEUTRAL
feedback for her. Later that night, she (you guessed it) stuck me with a
negative feedback stating that I never tried to contact her. (She
received all the other emails I sent her immedaitedly after the auction
though...) I've bought and sold Forwardlook parts on eBay since
1998 and these two negative feedbacks took me down to 98.8% (feedback score of
(221)). Still, despite the fear that some have of the retaliatory
strike, I refuse to let someone scare me out of posting the truth by
threatening to "leave a negative on you too". It's a tricky business at
best!
Jim
P
On the subject of EBay feed back
I sell on EBay and can tell you also that negative feed back is left a lot
for no reason or just to post it !! My feed back is great and
the negative ones I do have are all from people that buy things and or never
pay for items. Take the last negative feed back I received from a
buyer. He claimed the item was damaged the photos did not show the
damage ECT. Well the box was packed and shipped and insured but
the buyer never contacted me about any thing and when I asked him for a
photo of the item or return it and I will refund there was still no
reply. This was all done after he left negative feed back. SO
please check more than the negative feed back look up ID changes, how long
was the seller selling total items sold every month and things like
that. I just wanted to tell my personal experience
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