Thank you! I've only sold a few items, stick to being a buyer - ebay gets less of my money and i don't have to deal with the dorks and deadbeats that can wait 13 days to email or pay me and suffer NO CONSEQUENCES!

yes, that's 7 days until ebay will contact them on my behalf to respond to me, the seller (b/c their binding bid isn't enough to compel them to respond/pay), then, they get another 7 days to pay before i can file UPI on them.

In my case, the bonehead w/o a paypal account (the only form of payment i specified was accepted in several places on the auc) paid on day 13!! Hooray!

Only 13 days of frustration for me, the reputable seller who was professional, polite and honest (yet, feeling more homicidal each day i waited!).

And what was my recourse other than i had my money and contact 13 days after auc end? oh yeah, i could leave NO FEEDBACK (thus allowing this jerk to harrass other well-intentioned, reputable sellers) or I could leave a POSITIVE, just for the ability to have a ~30 character comment space?????

Who's protecting the sellers from buyers that are not quite UPI material, but are either too lazy, irresponsible or ignorant to follow the simple guidelines and be courteous and follow through on their bids, paying within the timeframe that is what the seller specifies if not, within 5 days max?? Paying on day 13 is all that's required to play??

Someone tell me if i'm missing something as a seller who wants to keep these losers off ebay?? Without the ability to leave legitimately negative/neutral feedback for a buyer leaves nothing else, right??

Thanks!

Exactly, a month ago. April 18, 2008. An extortionist attacker hit me with ALL 1 star in ALL 4 categories.

Dinged my 30-day, It showed ding 2-3 notches 1 day after. And now it showed a recovery of 2-3 notches....
in ALL 4 CATEGORIES.. exactly 30-day after the attack.

For smaller sellers, this kind of attack could lead to SELLER EXPULSION. This kind of attacks is rampant. It is being reported everyday in various forums. What is JD going to do about this? JD, DOING NOTHING IS AN OPTION.

Why in the U.S.A., there still exist metrics that continue to make smaller American sellers SUFFER. This is so immmoral!

No negs for buyers for a year now!!!

It's definitely a picture of VHS to me. I won't even confused it with a Beta. And item said it is VHS.

Sometimes, the price is so cheap, amateurist buyers failed to check for other details. Anyway, ebay offer them buyers NEG YOUR SELLER ANYTIME. REASON IS NOT REQUIRED.

EBAY WHACK-A-SELLER POLICY.

JD is so stupid. He hurts hundreds of thousands of small sellers who could also be 10 times more active as buyers.

Check brydiewhite (462) Post 18776 May 19, 2009

She bought a lot over the years and I am sure is very proud of 100% FB till she start selling a few things. And WHAMMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ONE NO MERCY buyer WHACKED her DSR for No Reason.

Stay here with us and join us do our daily RANT to wake up JD to stop killing of small American sellers.

It is a waste of time to complain about the feedback rules, They are not going to change it. It is not fair, But they do not care.

I absolutely agree, sellers get no backing whatsoever!
Buyers pay late, or not at all, put in disputes with no basis, and ebay sides with them. We can't leave feedback, so they continue to have 100% feedback ratings while sellers ratings go down. Sellers can't win!
Ebay was worried about buyers not being able to leave bad feedback due to retribution by sellers. What about the other way around??? We can't let other sellers know about the non-payments that some buyers are famous for. Rules need to be changed!! Let's have a revote and change policies!!!!!!!!!

J.D......... shouldn't your new plan have started showing some improvement already? Like..... a 'brave new world' or something like you've been promising. I mean, if you wanted to dismantle the place and re-create it better, shouldn't the 'better' part have started happening by now?

While eBay stock is still stuck in the ditch at about 40% down from a year ago, Am*zon seems to have at least broke even, and JD is still implementing the same old crap that caused these problems in the first place. Giving mortgages and concessions to people that can't afford them, then on default let somebody else pay the cost (like us, here, and apparently the stockholders).

I don't know if offering free goods and shipping to everybody in the world at the eBay seller's expense (as long as eBay or Paypal can scoop a percentage) would qualify as a good thing for the economy, but maybe a bailout would help and JD could use the money to help us all get back on solid ground.

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OMG!!!

CHRYISTYSEL.. DID YOUR ATTACKER ALSO HIT YOU ON ALL 4 DSR CATEGORIES? WHAT WAS YOUR 30-DAY AVERAGES AND WHAT IS IT NOW?

DOCUMENT YOUR DAILY 30-DAY DSR. PUT THE YAHOO WEATHER AND DATE CALENDAR AND TAKE SCREEN SHOTS EVERYDAY. ALSO TAKE GET A WITNESS.

ON THE 30-DAY AFTER THIS ATTACK, YOU COULD PROVE WHAT YOUR ATTACKER HAD GIVEN YOU.

IF YOU WISH, TAKE OUT ALL YOUR ITEMS OFF FOR 30 DAYS AND WAIT FOR THE 30 DAYS. THIS WAY THE IMPACT WOULD EVEN BE CLEARER....

This is another SHOWCASE of JD DSR WEAPONRY USED for elimination of small American sellers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS IS REALLY SAD....IMHO, A POWERFUL SELLER over 500x BIGGER SHOULD SHOW SOME RESTRAINTS AGAINST ELIMINATING A SMALL COMPETITOR.

JUST ONE CLUSTER HIT OF 3 B*MBS AND THE COMPETITION IS ANNIHILATED INSTANTLY.

THIS IS THE CLEAREST EXAMPLE OF WHAT WE HAVE BEEN POINTING OUT. DSR STILL KILLING A LOT OF SMALL AMERICAN SELLERS!
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Read Post # (18775 of 18789) May 19, 2009 8:44 AM

Exactly what we were ranting about here for over a year now.

The fate of christysel (383) was sealed by an attacker, allegedly by DSR-bullet proof super powerseller... his competition.

NOT FAIR, JD, NOT FAIR! TOUCH YOUR HEART!

Don't know for sure, but either petti is keeping a very low profile or she is on vacation again.

Today a really funny thread on Seller Central (What is the difference between Ebay and the SS Titanic?) was totally shut down.

Obviously eBay has no sense of humor.