Re: [Boatanchors] Re: [Milsurplus] OT: New Ebay Rules for FB

[jeremy-ca]

I NEVER leave FB unless specifically asked AND after received  yet buyers 
have left me plenty of FB. I suspect something wrong with your statement.

Carl
KM1H

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J Forster" <jfor at quik.com>
To: <Radioman390 at cs.com>
Cc: "Boat Anchors" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>; <ARC5 at mailman.qth.net>; 
<Rebecca-Eureka at yahoogroups.com>; <armyradios at yahoogroups.com>; 
<milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 12:03 PM
Subject: [Boatanchors] Re: [Milsurplus] OT:   New Ebay Rules for FB


> Not necessarily:
>
> Has anyone else noticed that you cannot leave FB for a seller, UNLESS the
> seller has 'marked the item as paid' ?
>
> If that continues under the new scheme, sellers can simply block FB from
> transactions that don't go to their liking by simply not marking items as
> paid.  In fact, eBay could start removing buyers, simply because sellers 
> are
> not marking items paid, even though they have been.
>
> Of course, eBay will answer that if you use PayPal, items automatically 
> get
> marked paid. But PayPal gives far less protection for buyers than, say, 
> USPS
> Money Orders.
>
> IMO, this is partly a ploy by eBay to force you to use their 'banking'
> system, and major profit center, PayPal.
>
> FWIW,
> -John
>
> ============================
>
> Radioman390 at cs.com wrote:
>
>> J Forster <jfor at quik.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Subject:             New Ebay Rules (was Re: [hp_agilent_equipment] Re:
>> >HP 8447D)
>> >    Date:             Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:17:00 -0600
>> >   From:             Dave-NR1DX/0 <nr1dx at arrl.net>
>> >
>> >
>> >Among other things in the new rules sellers will no longer be able to
>> >leave negative feedback for buyers ..... interesting concept ...
>> >
>> ========================
>
>>
>> The new rules are just a step in the process of changing EBAY into a pure 
>> advertising company, where you pay for the listing and for successful 
>> transactions only in the form of transaction and PayPal fees.
>>
>> I have mixed feelings about dropping older feedbacks (after 12 months) 
>> and relying on current transactions for the FB ratings. I joined EBay two 
>> weeks before 9-11-01, and my first 10 transactions went sour because I 
>> was living in a hotel in NYC working 7 days a week. Although I completed 
>> over half of those transactions and paid the sellers later, the damage 
>> was done. Subsequent deals have been 100% good, but those 10 negatives 
>> dropped me down to 98.6%.
>>
>> Since I frequently sell or trade, not being able to give negative ratings 
>> to winning bidders who default, seems to me to be favoring EBay's image 
>> building plan. It will no doubt increase the number of unsold items, 
>> which costs the sellers the listing fees for repeated attempts to sell 
>> and does nothing to penalize spurious buyers.
>>
>> I suppose that Meg Whitman is leaving because the "new EBay" she created 
>> is not fun anymore despite the cute graphics (I feel like I'm at a church 
>> bake sale). They seem to have learned from Craig's List (they own 25%) 
>> policy of totally free listings. EBay costs around 10% for a completed 
>> deal, based on listing fees (unless you start at 99 cents), buy-it-now or 
>> reserve fees, completed deal fees, and the 3% for Paypal. What we have to 
>> decide is whether it's worth it.
>>
>> To summarize, only Sellers can get negative listings, right?
>
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