Posted by MarkB_MI on August 21, 2008 at 03:30:45 from (216.234.118.40):
In Reply to: ebay changes posted by bill mart on August 21, 2008 at 01:48:22:
Sorry, I gotta side with eBay on this one. Anyone who has opened a newspaper in the past few years knows that mail fraud via checks and money orders is rampant. eBay wants to get out of the middle between fraudulent buyers/sellers and their victims. The easiest way is to force use of payment methods that are less susceptible to fraud.
Regarding no negative feedback by buyers against sellers, the reason for that is simple: Too many sellers were using it to retaliate against buyers. I know it happened to me the one and only time I left less than positive feedback. So for me that's an abuse rate of 100 percent. (In case you're curious about the details, I purchased an item from a brick-and-mortar store over eBay. They did not ship the item, nor did they respond to repeated emails. Finally I called them on the phone, and got the response "oh, we haven't checked our email." This was over a week after they had received payment! They shipped me the item, and I left neutral feedback. "Item perfect, communication poor" was basically what I said. The seller (several weeks later) retaliated with neutral feedback, saying basically it was somebody else's fault that they screwed up. Huh? Why does THEIR screwup translate into neutral feedback for ME?)
At any rate, eBay currently has the online option business wrapped up, except for niche areas (particularly guns) that they choose to stay out of. Be grateful they don't rip you off worse than they do. (God help you if Microsoft or Exxon-Mobil decides to buy eBay!)
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