eBay feedback

[skyring]

You know what cheeses me off about this? It's sellers who reserve their feedback until the goods are delivered and the buyer has given a rating. The buyer's part in the transaction is to pay for the goods. Once that's done, they can't do anything more, and the seller should rate them on how quickly and efficiently they paid, and then wait for the buyer to receive the goods and rate them on how well they were described, quickly shipped and so on.

But no. You get sellers who hang back from providing feedback until the buyer has given them a positive rating, presumably so that if the buyer isn't happy and gives a negative or neutral rating, they can then retaliate and do the same back, even if the buyer has paid the full amount promptly.

Well, stuff 'em. I'm not going to give feedback to sellers who don't rate me first. Not unless they are obvious newbies to whom each feedback point is precious.

I got stung once. Paid up smartly, got the book, had the temerity to give a (rare for me) neutral rating because the shipping cost the seller charged me was way above what he'd actually paid and he gave some cock and bull story when the postage was right there on the parcel, and he negged me back. I made sure he regretted it and withdrew the neg - you don't piss off an ex-hacker lightly - but still it left a bad taste in my mouth. I later heard about him from a customer who wanted to know if she could pick up a book from me directly as she was in the area instead of having to pay for postage. I said, yeah, come around any time, and when she did she said that once a certain seller insisted on mailing the book to her when she only lived a couple of blocks away and surprise surprise it was my old nemesis.

Comments

[madame-urushiol.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that nasty little practice myself, and I think it's thoroughly slimy. Go get 'em, Pete!

Me too

[woosang.livejournal.com]

I usually am very slack about the feedback, so they usually get around to it before me. Either way I don't care. MY original ebay name/account was hacked by and ex but ebay refused to believe that it was possible. They kept saying I was doing it. I am wary of newbies...

[yokospungeon.livejournal.com]

Gyad! There are some real numptys on ebay.

I was really peeved to get a neutral rating recently on a pair of my hand knitted baby gloves.

The buyer said in his feedback "Only 5 cashmere - not what I expected, but posted quickly" I asked them in my response to the feedback to refer to the listing, where I had specified not only the exact percentages of fibre content, but even the frickin BRAND of wool used so they could check for themselves.

So I get penalised because some crazy can't be arsed to read the frickin description?

You'll have to pass some of your hacking tips onto me darling.

[semioticghosts.livejournal.com]

Oh please do tell how you made him regret it and some tale about yourt hacker days. I am intrigued!!!

[skyring.livejournal.com]

I don't think it would be wise for me to say what I did to him. eBay would be very interested, for one thing. But the internet cafe where I did it no longer exists, and presumably he's changed his password since.

Just let this be a warning to everyone. Never choose a password that is the same as your username.

[wandering-sag.livejournal.com]

Ebay drives me nuts at times. Especially lately the postage ripoffs are getting out of hand. I was looking to buy a memory stick for my camera and have it send to mom and dad's--they'd then put it in a package--some sellers want 12-15 to ship something smaller than my thumb. No thank you! My old account became inaccessible and I got grumpy having o start from 0 FB again, but it all worked out well.

[skyring.livejournal.com]

I was looking for a wireless laptop mouse. What is it with me and mouses, you ask? Found any number in Hong Kong http://cgi.ebay.com/Mini-USB-WIRELESS-OPTICAL-MOUSE-MICE-800-dpi-LAPTOP_W0QQitemZ6828889575QQcategoryZ60264QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem is one example, where the auction is for a short period but the postage cost is steep. Way steeper than such a small item would actually cost to send. Obviously they are making money on the postage sufficient to cover the cost of this unbranded item, and any auction action is pure gravy. I'm seeing quite a bit of this recently, and I'm learning to check the postage before bidding.

[wandering-sag.livejournal.com]

Didn't know you had a 'thing' with mouses ;) And yes, HK seems to be the worst culprit.
Two that had particularly irked me were
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7569837915&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
and
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7569797515&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
OK granted, batteries might be a little weighty but $18 for a memory stick the size of my thumb and even thinner!?

Wonder why eBay doesn't do something about it. Guess there's nothing wrong though if they're saying it up front *shrugs* still seems underhanded.

[beckerbuns.livejournal.com]

Grr. I hate that kinda stuff. There have been some sellers that I've noticed seem to have an automated thing that leaves feedback for me, but ONLY once I have left feedback for them. I mean I go to leave feedback and MINUTES later feedback from the appears. This has happened several times, so I got to thinking it was probably something automated. It's odd. Seems to me that someone's feedback shouldn't be based on mine; it should be based on me doing what I was supposed to do (pay).

[skyring.livejournal.com]

Yeah. You neg them and their neg feedback in return/revenge will say something like "The buyer complained about the goods! Beware!"

[angelchild.livejournal.com]

Oooooo....i know what you mean..... It really winds me up!!!! :o(