Negative feedbacks need to be reinstated to protect buyers and sellers.

I agree...but I don't think ebay ever will?!

Agree 100%
 

+1

he has things listed on eBay?
 

I have to be reading this wrong :-)

Yes...he does. He hasn't been banned from ebay yet as far as I know. Maybe he will be due to high shipping fees?!

Absolutely but after speaking with an upper level management talking head, that day will never come where a seller can leave anything but a positive. The explanation I was given neither made sense nor instilled confidence that sellers were being looked after. The real reason for most of the changes that have taken place in the last few years was to compete with Amazon.com. Taking the seller's ability to leave a neutral or negative was to encourage buyers to stick with eBay since Amazon employs a feedback score only for the sellers.

Sorry to go off topic. Back to the poetry...

Peter / Pete-
I am a novice with eBay and relatively new to this board too. Plus I'm just plain curious. So I have spent the better part of the day searching his user ID on eBay and looking at his feedback and current listings. I am not finding anything about problems with recent transactions. The curiousity is now occupying every minute of my day at work and I will not accomplish anything productive today unless I figure out how to sleuth this kind of info through eBay. Is there something in particular I am missing when searching that User ID?
Thanks,
Andy

With ebay's modern rules...I'm guessing such info cannot even be "sleuthed" out?!

as a potential buyer of his cards...I'm sure there isn't much to worry about...I just wouldn't sell him anything unless he paid me first?!

That is the problem with ebay as it now works -- when he buys cards and then reneges, as he has done based on what people have told me on at least several occasions and in all likelihood far more, sellers cannot leave him a negative feedback.

Off topic, but right now, it looks like you cannot even leave "negative" feedback for a non-paying bidder on ebay. When you open the nonpyament case on ebay, it automatically removes any feedback that the buyer has left already. And when the case is closed, the seller cannot leave any feedback also. It used to be that you could leave "positive" feedback, but still put in the comments that the buyer did not pay as a warning to other sellers.

I can't wait until eBay's auction patents expire.

There's better stuff out there already.

You can sell vintage stuff on Etsy. Anyone have any luck over there?

Hi Gary,

If a seller leaves a positive feedback and the feedback comment is negative, eBay will not only remove it, but it is also grounds for a suspension for the seller. It is a very hostile place to try to conduct business.

Greg

Maybe Eric can follow up with a poem about the state of ebay.

Here's a hint, renege rhymes with neg.

Roses are red
Violets are blue
eBay sucks
The end!

That was beautiful!

Man, that guy was annoying.

There once was a site from Nantucket.........

Never mind, Ken nailed it. :D

Best,

Eric