How do you feel about ebay's policy of sellers not able to leave negative feedback on purchases, only buyers can leave negative feedback?

I am an ebay seller, and I think this policy is horrible. Buyers on ebay nowadays have too much power. They contact me and say give me a discount or I won't buy.

They toss me their "best offer" on my fixed price listings, which usually includes free shipping and is half the price of what I paid for the item, and they get rude when I write back kindly and say that I don't accept "best offers. " They knock my stars. They leave negatives or neutrals without even contacting me, usually about something out of my control (shipping time, ebay message got lost and never got through to me, package was crushed in transit) and without giving me the chance to fix it.

Meanwhile, what is there for me to do? The buyer can be rude to me, demand things, threaten not to pay if I don't do what he wants (even though he already bought), leave me a neutral/negative for a bad/no reason. But I can't leave a neutral/negative warning sellers that this person is a risk?

Ebay thanks me when I leave feedback, for keeping ebay a safe place. I just laugh at the irony. Safe place?

By leaving the only thing I'm allowed to leave? It leaves us sellers defenseless, and groveling to get our sales and positive feedback. But yet we have to sell there because of the traffic that ebay brings us.

Ah well, such is life.

It really really irritates me. There are TONS of horrible buyers out there and I'd love to be able to know it before I have to deal with them! My friend runs a business on there and she keeps getting negative reviews from BAD buyers!

These are people who simple DON'T read the item description and punish her for their laziness. I think it's just ridiculous. Makes me hesitant to start selling again.

How and I supposed to know if this person pays on time or AT ALL before I take the item down? It's a very very one sided system. I much prefer the old system where everyone could leave whatever feedback they felt was neccissary.

It bothered me at first. I haven't really been hit with any negative feedback, well, ever! So I guess I am lucky.

If a buyer is so bad that intervention is needed, you can get some assistance from eBay proper, but it is not easy. I've tried to safeguard bad buyers in two ways. First, Paypal only.No exceptions.

It's worth their cut. Second, domestic shipping only. Both these things help a lot.

As we all know, large sites implement policies for reasons that are beyond us, but I'll bet the abuse was getting fierce from the seller end (not ours, of course) so that they needed to make the move.

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