02-29-04, 07:33 PM | |
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Hi Abbe. I agree with you about Ebay needing to change their feedback policy. It's not right that you should feel threatened to do the right thing and that is leaving a retraction feedback for the first buyer who backed out, and by telling your second buyer, "sorry, but I cannot match the price of a big company and I cannot ship this item for free!"
If you haven't done so, I highly recommend doing both. You can always refute their feedback if need be.
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02-29-04, 07:43 PM | |
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Hi Abbe. There is a way to post a retraction. If you look in the person's profile, you will see if that buyer has any retractions. Let me snoop around Ebay and see if I can find out how to do it.
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02-29-04, 07:51 PM | |
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Hi Abbe. It looks like the bidder can retract their bid, which then shows in their feedback. Unfortunately, this doesn't help you, because you are afraid of the negative feedback.
http://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/bid-retract.html As a buyer, I do look at their feedback, but if the negative feedback is undeserving, I don't take it into account with my dealings with the seller. There are some buyers who will leave a negative feedback in a flash.
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02-29-04, 08:24 PM | |
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I have fortunately not had a bad experience w/eBay, but I'm fairly new to it. I did have one questionable transaction - the seller was REALLY slow with payment instructions - but it worked out. I was, however, reluctant to leave appropriate feedback; the seller had berated another buyer who complained about exactly the same thing and I didn't want the same thing to happen to me. And I wondered how many others had the same complaint and felt the same way... I know you can reply to the feedback, but you still get the -. Ain't that a shame? My answer is not to deal with the seller again, although he does sell things I am interested in. *shrug* This seller has thousands of positive feedbacks, BTW.
Anyway, I ramble. No, the feedback system is not perfect. I would take bidders with negative feedback on a case by case basis, and not worry if there's a stray negative or two in there. Seems you can usually read between the lines and get a semblance of the story.
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