What good is buyer feedback?
WACoinGuy
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If you're selling something on E-Bay, what do you do if the high bidder is someone who has doesn't have perfect feedback? What's your threshold before you do something differently in closing the transaction or refuse to send the item at all? (I haven't had this happen to me personally, but a few times I've had bidders early on who I hope don't win based on their feedback and thankfully they've always been outbid in the end)
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Russ, NCNE
<< <i> Unless their feedback is loaded with recent "deadbeat bidder", I don't really worry about it. Many buyers have negs for no other reason than that they had the guts to neg slimeball sellers, and said slimeballs retaliated. >>
Yup. I wanted to neg a seller but i gave neutral and he neutraled me back in retaliation. I couldn't really hurt him because he was a power seller.
It sucks!
Aerospace Structures Engineer
Yes, there have a been a few times when I have sweated a little, praying for somebody to outbid a person who had crummy feedback. But I've only had to neg about four people, in six years and probably over 1,000 transactions. And in each of those negs (all given to deadbeat bidders), I didn't really have any warning from the person's feedback. And none of them ever responded to my negs or retaliated.
Read what type of negs were given...I myself have a few negs & neutrals because of the feedback I left others.
If the negs are for items sold I will think twice before buying from them.
If they have 'deadbeat bidder' negs I would think twice before selling to them.
<< <i>If they have 'deadbeat bidder' negs I would think twice before selling to them. >>
But the point is, you can't really block them in advance -- if they win, they win. Then you have to wait for them to either pay or not.