For those of you who buy on ebay and think that negative feedback is a tool to fight against fraudulent sellers, think again. I was recently dis-satisfied with a seller due to the seller failing at all standards. What was more was that the seller didn’t respond to a few of my emails and selectively replied to 1 ignoring others. The transaction was not smooth at all and I had to face a lot of hardship. What was more was that this seller had a history of such sour deals all over the internet. They also deal via mail order catalogues and had a lot of negative feedback. The seller had deliberately stated false information in the listing, shipped late , mis-spelled my address etc..
Anyway, after I left negative feedback, the seller’s sleep vanished, suddenly I was getting calls and all my emails were replied to after the feedback. A week later this seller applied to ebay community court wherein users vote on issues regarding feedback disputes. This seller wrote a 5 line dispute with little info and lies. I exposed these lies in my reply which had a good 12 points.
Here is the fraud support by ebay, the seller is allowed to post another reply to buyer’s feedback justification while the buyer may not post any such thing. The fraudier part is that the buyer cant even see what lies and web the seller has spun. The policy is tilted into the favour of the seller and essentially is against the principle of justice wherein each person should get equal right to present their case.
Also the community court voters seem like disinterested folks who probably cant differentiate between a fly and an elephant. Anyway, I am happy that negative feedback against this seller is swelling everyday. Hopefully ebay will kick him out, but it seems he is using the court to remove other people’s negative feedbacks too.
Just to give you a magnitude of the ebay fraud , this seller had 29 negative feedback in 1 month yesterday, and its only 21 today, this seller seems to have learnt how to bend rules and continue cheating people ignoring the so called good selling policies of ebay. As his volume is high, it seems even ebay is reluctant to take action against this seller.
Seriously Ebay, you need to become better and get rid of this community court hogwash or atleast make it transparent ! Who had a court in which one party doesnt get to see and respond to the other party’s arguments.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
So true, even i have been the victim of this so called court, my perfectly valid negative was removed by this so called shoddy version of a court.
December 4th, 2009 at 11:46 am
Same with me. eBay users volunteer to become jurors.
I guess most of the jurors are sellers, who invariably
gang up to help each other. So the seller always wins,
and has the negative feedback removed. eBay Admin is
a party to this scam. After all, eBay makes money out
of seller’s listings, and the commission they get for each item sold.
December 4th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Yes, the seller in question had 30 negative feedback in 1 month and it was reduced to 3 by this month such is the extent of fraud and conspiring by ebay sellers in the ebay court