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Originally Posted by RichardSimon
I agree with you in that it looks weird. I will get my refund and will give him a strike. It really is not fair, not allowing sellers to leave a negative. What was ebay's reasoning for that ?
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eBay's reasoning, from what I have gathered over the years in talking with their people, is to discourage retaliatory feedback. Before, if a buyer left a negative feedback mark against a seller, the seller would often retaliate against the buyer and leave them a negative as well.
eBay pretty much has decided that if a buyer pays for an item, they are not in any way, in the wrong. Even if they refused to read an item's description and are completely unreasonable, as long as they paid for the item, they are golden.
The problem is that there is no way to tell if a buyer has a reputation of not paying for items since a seller cannot record feedback against them. You cannot see if a person has a history of not paying for items. The best eBay will do is, as others have pointed out, block them from bidding.
It's also worth pointing out that eBay's bidder restriction settings are an absolute joke. You CAN set bidder restrictions, but can only block someone with negative feedback - they literally need to have at least a -1 for you to block them. And, of course, since buyers cannot receive negative feedback, the only people that would have a negative is someone who was a seller and received one. You cannot even set a restriction to stop people with a zero rating from bidding. Your only alternative is to block specific bidders...which you would only know about after having a bad experience, of course.
But no, the system's not flawed at all. Not one bit.
