Ebay seller warning signs

Twowood

I just passed up an attractive auction because the seller had 6 negatives and 21 neutrals. He had over 1000 feedbacks. When does the warning flag go up for you guys? Twowood

MadMarty

Remember if a user is no longer registered, his positive becomes a neutral. you have to look at the negitives. I have had 7 in the last six months, all from the same user who didn't pay for his auctions. The were retalatory negitives.

fcloud

Look at the age of the negatives. I they are mixed in here and there or very old. They may not make any difference. If they are all recent, you may have a point. I don't let a few neg bother me when the have 1000 positives. You are bond to get some neg feedback over time.

danglen

I don't think you should count more than one neg from any unique user. You get one guy that wins ten auctions, stiffs you, then gets ticked off at you because you file NPBAs, and bingo, there go ten negatives

BIGDAVE

A positive always stays a positive , a negitive will change to a neutral if he is no longer registered, i have 204 positives and 4 no longer registered but they left positives so they stay positive, high neutral is bad...

heavycopper

Any negative comments like the coins were overgraded and I had to return them. I have seen sellers with over 500 positives and just a few negatives but sell overgraded coins. People buy them not knowing any better and give a positive rating. The few negative ratings tell me more.

Dog97

BIGDAVE is right about a positive staying a positive so that means the guy had 27 neg/neu out of 1000 which is high. I would read them to see what the deal was because if he had a lot of negs from a user now NARU maybe he was feedback bombed. My first thought would be to stay away from this seller.

farthing

While it is true that eBays' current policy is positives stay positive while negatives become neutral it was not always so. Their original policy was that both positive and negative feedback changed to neutral following a NARU. That's how my 2 neutrals occured. Also, believe it or not sometimes a person will simply select the wrong button!

DenverCoin

Farthing is correct. I became a member of eBay back in 1996. A couple of people left positive comments, became NARU'd for whatever reasons and back then they changed these comments to neutral.

Even 27 negs out of a 1000 just proves you can't please all of the people all of the time.

Just my opinion

John

Libertad

I agree w/heavycopper.

I look at the auctions that drew a neg/neutral and found a buyer this week who bid on the same coin I was interested in, paid 5x what I was willing, and then returned it, noting that the coin was presented as AU?, and was VF at best on arrival. Same pic/auction for the item on relisting.

I passed on the item, which went for a third of the previous bid.
Bad scans can hide more than toning on the 'net.

A good return policy is well worthwhile if you are considering taking a chance.

bigbadchad777

6 negatives and 21 neutrals out of 1000 isn't bad at all. I'll bet most of the negatives were posted by people with a lot of negatives. There are a lot of strange people out there!!

farthing

Also, back in the good 'ol days on eBay feedback was not tied to transactions, ie. trools could post negative feedback on anyone else for absolutely no reason whatsoever. If you look back on some of the longtime sellers you can find negative feedback such as "This person has too many positives so here's a negative for you". Negative feedback wars would break out over postings in the chat rooms. EBay had to make feedback transactional to curb rampant abuses.