Originally Posted by
tarwheel
EBay does not handle complaints, bad users very well as far as I can tell. They have made it almost impossible to leave negative feedback. I was selling some brakes and the winning bidder never paid for them and wouldn't respond to messages. I was unable to leave negative feedback, and his eBay profile rated him 100% and included no bad reviews. I doubt if I was the first person that he scammed but how would other sellers or buyers know if eBay doesn't allow negative feedback?
Yup. A couple of years ago they shifted heavily toward the buyer. Sellers can't leave negative feedback. But the logic is reasonable. Sellers don't ship until they've been paid --so no one is damaged monetarily when buyer backs out. There were apparently loads of cases where sellers sleazed out, got negative feedback, and then retaliated on the cheated buyer by leaving them negative feedback. Buyer got cheated AND rec'd negative feedback. Apparently that was way too common.