If only for the perception that Buyers still look for 100% Sellers, and if that one neg / neut brings you back to that can only help your cause.

Or if that one neg / neut being removed brings you back above the 98% Powerseller mark.

We are all moaning about wrongful feedback being left, and sellers not being able to do anything about it, at least this is light at the end of the tunnel albeit a very small light!

So if you tell them where to look, they will likely be grateful to have one sorted without searching for it.

Valid point as to looking at other avenues. Prior to the latest SNP, Feedback rules, increased FVF, I was quite happy on eBay.

But these changes have done me a favour in a roundabout way. I now list elsewhere, I am building my website, I now advertise locally of my wares, and am considering craft fairs.

Once I would have been more than happy to list everything on eBay, now I don’t.

On a separate positive note, I read on Q&A about a seller getting a neg from a NPB who responded within the NPB disute removed as they were now NARU’d. I tried my luck, emailed eBay with item number, user ID and reason ‘NPB dispute, No Payment, User NARU’ Please remove neg feedback.

Today it dissappeared! The transaction was in January 2008.

So if you have time, and see any Neuts or Neg and that Buyer is NARU, try to get them removed.

Sorry ebay but us dolphins can take on sharks once we are out of the net of rubish you are putting around us.

All because a buyer that is negged opens up a new account, and what do ebay think it is, the buyer is leaving. maybe they should have started reading the IPs before bringing in such bad rules.

That’s why these pathetic sellers are still trading.
But of course the big sellers are only a small % of all sellers so this suspension thing must be costing ebay a fortune in credits to accounts.

Maybe ebay should file for bankruptsy now & do us all a favor..

- Between Buy.com and frogswamp (an employee of ebay) they have almost 1/2 a million listings?

- The seller frogswamp has a percentage of 96% with 47 negatives for the month and over a hundred negatives for the year but still can sell?
http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=frogswamp

“Though from the 15th of May, sellers will no longer be able to leave
neutral or negative Feedback for buyers, we will be offering a number
of
ways for sellers to handle transactions where problems arise. If you
feel that a bidder may be untrustworthy, you can cancel their bid and
block them from bidding.”

Ah, now, how do you feel that a bidder may be untrustworthy, if they have no negative feedbacks??? Because they can’t receive any now can they! And why would I doubt their trustworthyness? On what basis? I have nothing to go on! I am more in the dark now than ever before, and rogues have more opportunity to abuse ebay than ever before at the mercy of genuine sellers. Far from making ebay safer, it has made it more dangerous and murky than ever before. For instance, a buyer who ONLY buys, and there are millions of them, they bid, win, pick and choose, maybe pay, maybe don’t, leave negs for no reason, and the seller would never know. These rogue buyers are bidding on your car, have several positives from the transactions they have completed, and you think they are trustworthy. You let them bid on your car, they win…and that’s the last you hear from them. They’ve wasted your time and money…and may leave you a neg as well.
And ebay spent how much time working out this new and ‘improved’ system??? About 7 seconds I’d say.

If there needed proof that ebay has made it’s biggest botch of all time, and there gave been a few, then this site has documented it. It really need a birching for the misery and uncertainty it has caused, and a thorough investigation and public castigation for it’s unbelievable intransigence to it’s sellers. I have had a couple of replies to the dozens of emails I have sent ebay customer support, very PC, very easy on the ear, but, still no reassurance of when this debacle or if it will end, and what help is to be given to the suspended sellers. I am so dissillusioned like you wouldn’t believe. I cannot fathom it’s policies, or the reasonings it uses. It used to say that it basically thinks people are good, and it want’s ebay to be a ‘fun’ place. Fun has been replaced by fear, suspicion and paranoia, ebay is now an intimidating and hostile environment. It will end in tears…..

I am writing now to inform you of a breaking scandal on ebay. It seems most people are now using ebay, but the rules are and have been changing steadily this year, so that now more rights are afforded to the buyers, than are the sellers. I have been a seller for 7 years with over 8000 postive feedbacks from satisfied customers. Ebay have just introduced a new feedback system, where only the buyer can leave a negative feedback or a neutral feedback. Sellers can no longer leave negative or neutral, only postitive feedbacks.
As many knew would happen, many buyers, knowing they won’t get a neutral or neg in return, are now leaving far more more neutrals and negs than before, many unfairly.
Ebay now take these feedbacks into account, and are suspending sellers left right and centre for ‘non perfomance’ they call it. I have just been restricted for 30 days on ebay. I can’t buy or sell, and this is my living. After 30 days, they say they will review my account, and although I have pressed them through many emails and several phone calls to them, they won’t say what you have to do to be re-instated. None of the call centre staff know why this is happening, the ebay hierachy don’t tell them and seem to give them very little information.
If you check on the forums and q and a parts of ebay, you’ll see thousands are up in arms over the unfair treatment ebay is meting out to it loyal sellers, many of whom have been trading for up to 10 years.
Ebay in my case, gave me no warning, just an email stating they were restricting my account for 30 days, possibly permanently. No selling, no buying, and no clear definition of what you need to do to prevent you being suspended permanently.
So my livelihood has gone for at least 30 days, maybe forever, because of ebay’s new draconian rules. This is nothing less than scandalous, maybe illegal, I’m not sure. It’s happening to lots of sellers, and it seems to be suicide on ebay’s part. Why destroy the businesses of it’s loyal sellers?
I had 154 positive feedbacks, 5 neutral and 2 negative over the last month. So, 3-4% of unhappy customers, or those that on less than meritous grounds left bad feedback, ebay says this is non-performance!
Many are leaving ebay for this betrayal of trust, and, no matter what complaints you make to ebay, nobody is willing to listen and act! It needs someone with clout to bring them to book.

If you want to protest at what eBay have done, then doing so with reasoned argument will achieve a lot more than going “strike strike strike” yet again. The last three strikes have achieved nothing at all, so why will another one make any difference.

Follow this link http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?SDSearchStanding (login required) and you’ll see it under ‘Search standing requirements’.

The ratings are:

“If you have a Good buyer satisfaction rating, most of your buyers have been satisfied with your customer service.

If you have a buyer satisfaction rating of “Needs work,” some of your buyers have not been satisfied with your service. You need to do more to make your customers happy.

If you have a rating of “Poor” or “Unacceptable,” too many of your customers have not been satisfied. You need to improve your selling practices.”

Why isn’t this on .co.uk?

NARU…No longer a registed user….many reasons for this which include SNP, not paying your bills, feedback wrecker etc etc

Guess it’s time to write that eBay Glossary I’ve been threatening to do for years!