eBay Irritability on why Buyers have so much power !

Banana_Hammock

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Techno

But why should people be allowed to commit fraud and why should sellers just lie down and accept it? It may be only a minority of buyers but if you are a small time seller and you end up getting a couple then it has a much more significant impact on your feedback and stars than if you are a power seller - so moan away Banana Hammock - at least some of us can empathise even if we can't help

soolin

Techno wrote: »

But why should people be allowed to commit fraud and why should sellers just lie down and accept it? It may be only a minority of buyers but if you are a small time seller and you end up getting a couple then it has a much more significant impact on your feedback and stars than if you are a power seller - so moan away Banana Hammock - at least some of us can empathise even if we can't help

I'm not sure where fraud comes into it though? Surely it isn't fraud to bid and not pay, inconvenient and frustrating yes, but not fraud. Also if a seller doesn't wish, for whatever reason, to use the system to get their fees back then that is nothing at all to do with the buyer.

Ebay can be very frustrating and it does pay to know what you are doing and to use the seller tools available to you.

pounds_and_dollars

I agree with emerald_starcat. I've been on eBay for a long time and it's few and far between that you deal with a bad buyer. It used to happen a lot in the earlier days, but now it seems more people have got to grips with eBay. I'm more fed up with the costs of listing and selling and using paypal on ebay. It seems, they take a cut at every step of the transaction. I've been using a site named SellPal (www .sellpal.co. uk) over the last few weeks as it's totally free. eBay is still the biggest player though and I've had nothing but success with everything I've sold on eBay.

cyberbob

Techno wrote: »

Bbut if you are a small time seller and you end up getting a couple then it has a much more significant impact on your feedback

If they don't pay and leave you FB this can be removed so the only impact it will have is having to relist the items. As has been said before it pays to know the rules then you at least know things like that

StaffsSW

waaaay off topic, but the OP has one of the best usernames I've seen on MSE!!!

Sharon87

stevew8975 wrote: »

waaaay off topic, but the OP has one of the best usernames I've seen on MSE!!!

This reminds me of a quote from Friends, where Pheobe changed her name to Princess Consuela Banana Hammock or something.