Ebay changes to feedback & increased fees ..

[m40man]

Not sure I agree, even though I'm mainly a buyer:

business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/retailing/article3315540.ece

[General Gman]

Like Martin, I'm primarily a buyer, but do sell stuff from time to time.To get around the issue of retaliatory feedback is not a simple thing - which is what they have made it.A better way would be to force the seller to leave feedback as soon as payment is received, but this would be difficult to enforce unless payment was made via paypal.

[El Fuego]

Perhaps the seller should be given 3 days (Paypal) or 10 days (other payment methods) to leave feedback after the auction is Marked As Paid/Payment Sent? If they don't then the feedback is automatically positive.

To me this gives the best of both worlds - sellers retain the right to set neutral or negative feedback where warranted, but lose the ability to leave retaliatory feedback.

[HRHpenfold]

What they need to do is to appraise the reasons that a seller has given negative feedback, rather than baning them for doing so, I once bought a zzr600 (not for me) and because the seller did'nt get what he thought he should have got, he refused to complete the deal and was generally abusive, when I left feedback and opened up a dispute with ebay, the seller left me negative feedback, despite ebay delisting the buyer for breaching their rules, they would not remove the negative feedback.

I also had someone give me negative feedback, despite in the comments box it being all positive, and the refused to remove that also

[iooi]

From a sellers point of view this is bad.

You get muppets who fail to read what you are selling then leave neg feedback.... How can you warn other sellers that the buyer is bad.
Perhaps dumping the feedback althgether and just have a rating system where its all not linked to people, so there is none of this tit for tat rubbish.

[El Fuego]

eBay's data shows that sellers are eight times more likely to retaliate in kind against negative feedback, a figure that has grown dramatically over the years. In an attempt to mollify sellers, eBay will initiate a handful of seller protections to offset the inability to speak ill of a buyer. Negative and neutral feedback will be removed if a buyer bails on a transaction or if the buyer has his or her account suspended. Buyers will have less time to leave feedback, and won't be able to do so until three days after the auction ends. eBay is also pledging to step up monitoring and enforcement of its policies around buyers who behave "very badly."

arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080206-ebays-new-feedback-policy-no-real-feedback.html

[willo]

EBAY is getting out of hand ive been let down big style on selling not cheap items these so called buyers are robbing genuine bidders to buy HONEST items yet when you try to leave bad feedback you just get fobbed off by ebay whats the point of trying lets get these w-----s
barred so we can use it for what it is lets face it they are making millions from it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!