new ebay feedback

I should point out that when it comes to negative feedback - a red mark against a buyer is essentially worthless. It does a buyer little to no harm. It is very difficult for a seller to block a bidder with excessive negative feedback, especially with bids coming in during the last moments of the auctions. When the auctions end, a seller pretty much has to honor the win, even if the seller has negative feedback. About the only thing the sellers can do realistically is to cut the bad buyers no slack in the payment process, then block the bidder from bidder from future sales. A red red mark against a seller is entirely a different matter. Every one of them does damage, as the bidders sometimes (and are encouraged to) look to check out sellers reputations. Too many red marks and bidders get turned away - and the loss of those bids damage the bottom line. As some on this and other lists have stated, some bidders will not bid if a seller has a feedback percentile that is not very close to 100 percent. As a professional seller, I can tell you that it is near impossible to keep a feedback score above 99.5 with serious amounts of goods being sold. There are a lot of asshole buyers out there that are almost impossible to please. There are others that blame sellers for problems that were clearly the shippers' fault. And there are also more than a few buyers who are plain old scammers themselves. Unless you have done serious selling on Ebay (I have been both a serious buyer and a serious seller) - please do not comment on how we sellers do our business. There are reasons for the things we do - reasons that even profession buyers just will not see. The feedback process is one of them. Yes, we sellers are glad to take suggestions blanket gripes and badmouthing we sellers receive that occurs here and elsewhere is just out of line and unjustified. -- Will