Is this something new? I am certain that in the past when checking feedback I noticed both buyers and sellers giving each other negative points.
I agree with your comment about shipping, ebay's commission should apply to the sale of goods and nothing more. As another on AS mentioned though, enough sellers were charging high shipping amounts then paying actual rates and pocketing the rest that eBay was bound to notice. We have all seen listings where the item sells for $150 but the seller claims shipping of $275 or some other ridiculous amount. Its possible that guys like this that ruin it for everyone else.
Sellers haven't been able to leave negatives for a year or two now, or more?
Yes, great, punish ALL sellers with unreasonable fees-on-shipping-charges....in order to control those who abuse.......
Ebay depends on outside sellers for their business, but continue to heap abuse on them in order to try and compensate for the ongoing moral/spiritual decay and keep their business model viable. As is often the case, the good guys are paying for the antics of the bad. I greatly resent much of what they have been doing, for years now....and that is said as one who has done his fair share of buying and selling over 10+ years. SURE do wish, as do many, that a workable alternative could be created by someone. I know an antiques dealer who, along with a computer/net tech wiz, tried to create one 11-12 years ago and, ultimately, just couldn't get the start-up momentum. I've visited some alternative online sites, only to find that there are no, or maybe a few, items in a given category of interest. THAT'S the problem: If a visitor doesn't see enough of what they are looking for, they'll leave fast, and likely never come back. How, then, does an entity get enough early activity to fund growth? Perhaps, the only answer would be a large enough capital base to advertise, entice and enlist the help of the huge ranks of the unhappy and disenfranchised in order to get people there, supporting the growth....a movement, actually. Well.....take a very deep breath, if you intend to hold it until such an alternative exists. Too stinking bad.... It's about being the only real game in town, knowing it, and abusing that fact and reality.
No sense ranting on further. Not sure just how I would have handled most of the ebay problems created by integrity-challenged users, either.....but I sure as heck know that I couldn't do what they've been doing to sellers, without first saying: 'Sorry, unfortunately our business model just won't work in this climate, just as the USA Constitutional system wasn't intended, nor indeed expected, to work in an a nation too fully engulfed in deceit, greed and treasonous treachery, where the people became too busy being distracted with meaningless fluff to notice and react......' But, hey, all are given the option to be IN the world, but not OF it....so, no excuses. Let each choose their path; some to the one way, some to the other.
NOW....I think I need THIS piece of rope for some cuttin' jobs coming up
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/e...sspagename=ADME:B:WNAFP:US:1123#ht_612wt_1167
