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oith no reason. I simply was pointing out that "no returns" doesn't mean yo u can't return something that isn't what you ordered or defective is otherw ise inappropriate.
Again, if you follow the thread, what I responded to was someone saying that you can return anything.
selling to anyone without a minimum amount of positive feedback and they w ould not give you feedback until you left them positive feedback.
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ything. I know for a fact that nearly every established vendor had the pol icy of "we will respond to your positive feedback with our positive feedbac k on you" when I started shopping on eBay.
And again, logically that is exactly how it should work. As a buyer, what have you done until you indicate that you're satisfied? All you did was buy it and pay for it. If that's how you want to generate positive feedbac k, then Ebay could automate it, but it defeats the whole purpose. The seller sends you the product, the transaction is not complete until YOU as the buyer indicate that you are satisfied with it and that is a big if. How does the seller know that you're not going to start a lot of BS, want your money back, make false claims that the item is not as described, claim you received an empty box, etc? They don't until you say you're satisfied and the way to do that is by you leaving positive feedback for the seller. That indicates you received it OK and that it meets the item description, that you're satisfied.
And again, you claim that the above makes it impossible to rack up positive feedback? How could that be? You buy twenty things, you're happy, you leave the seller positive feedback, then they leave you positive feedback. How hard is that? It's simple, the seller CAN't legitimately and fairly give you feedback one way or the other, until they know you're satisfied and that the transaction is done.
If they did, they likely earned it. Just like if a seller has negative feedback. As it is now, you can see bad sellers, but you can't see bad buyers.
Pitty that. Twenty years on Ebay, never had that happen. And even if it did, so what? There are many sellers on Ebay or elsewhere that will. Butch up and take your business someplace else.
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ing negative feedback when the seller deserved it and is the reason for the current system where the seller has much less power vis-a-vis feedback.
Nonsense. It was a level playing field as it should be.
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ses to sell to buyers without feedback or too much negative feedback.
In my experience they never did. Maybe the real problem is you have bad feedback. And even if some sellers refused to sell, there are plenty of other sellers on Ebay and online, so what's the problem?
when he sent the order signature required without telling me. I was not ab le to pick up the shipment at the post office in time and it was returned.
How hard is it to pick up a shipment before it's sent back? They hold stuff at the post office for at least a week.
eBay window of dispute. I think I also missed the window on the credit ca rd.
There has to be more to it than that. It would be one hell of a long shipping time to wind up outside the Ebay dispute window and a CC window too.
Even if he kept the unit I was due a refund of the purchase minus the shi pping. He simply refused to discuss it with me any longer. So I did use t he "shyster" technique to get another unit shipped on a new account and end ed up getting a refund for that one and didn't feel at all bad about it.
Are you claiming that vendor refused to refund you the cost of the item? Or just the shipping? I suspect there is more to this story, that you probably decided you didn't want it and that's why you didn't pick it up at the post office.
h for a 12 year old to understand.
What's clear is that when both buyers and sellers can leave feedback, then it's a level playing field. Sellers aren't out to screw customers. They want more of your business, if you are indeed a good buyer. If you're a shyster, well then they will give you negative feedback.
attempt to report fraudulent transactions where eBay had no interest in con tacting the police) I quit using them.
Which suggests the problem is with you. Because in twenty years and hundreds of transactions, I've only had a few that were problems.
as not as profitable as making the sellers be honest.
Honesty would be allowing negative feedback from both buyers and sellers. Ebay is all about profits and doesn't care, so they put buyers above sellers.
ng able to use feedback to blacklist the bad sellers.
There was no fraud, it was an open and level system of feedback.