This activity is called feedback extortion on eBay's help pages (EBay. And, it is much too bothersome of a process to try to get Ebay to refund the fees a seller must pay, when a winning bidder doesn’t follow through. On eBay, users are allowed to rate other users after every transaction (provide. So frustrating how some people abuse the system. These people definitely deserve to be given a negative, but if I justly leave that for them, they are likely to give me a completely undeserved negative. It is now NOT considered extortion for a buyer to threaten to leave negative feedback/low DSRs for a seller if they do not reduce shipping fees or pay return shipping for items the buyer no longer wants. She left a negative for me (despite my “neutral” for her) and then, a month later she wrote to apologize and offer to retract the negative, yet she never followed up on that.Īs an occasional seller, I have encountered several non-paying bidders–one said her child had done the bidding, without her knowledge, while others have never bothered to respond at all. It seems that eBay has updated their feedback extortion policy pages and in so doing have re-defined the term extortion. After hundreds of 100%positive feedback, I left a “neutral” feedback for a seller who deserved a negative: she forgot to send the CD until a month after the sale, sent it to me instead of the friend I was giving it to, and had asked her on 3 occasions (including the paypal form) to use that alternate address, plus it reeked so strongly of smoke, it was untouchable. I share your frustration of being caught in the feedback situation.
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