"Avoiding the Rotten Eggs"

After over 30 years in the retail field I can state imfaticly that once ebay removed negative feedback for buyers the door for rotten eggs was thrown wide open. Just ask any seller if they have seen a marked increase in unpaid items recently and they will respond absolutly. let's face it ebay realy doesn't care. Thier aim is to make the buyer feel good. You get a final value crdit,but what about any other extras you purchased? Sorry ebay gets to keep that. Second chance offers.Most buyers don't beleive they're for real,or they have cooled off. It is even against current ebay policy to state "serious bidders only." As this may upset potential bidders. Time was first thing I did was check a bidders feedback if they had 2 or more negative feedbacks I canceled thier bid right away. The best chance to get the best price for your item is the first time out of the gate. In the time it takes to go through the unpaid process potential buyers have either alrady bought else where,or cools off. The only way to get rid of rottenm eggs is for ebay to bring back negative feedback for deadbeat bidders so other sellers are warned.

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If you think you have a deadbeat on your hands, cut 'em loose and move along to other customers. Quickly relist the item for bid or sale, or contact any other interested parties who have previously or concurrently expressed interest in the item.

The article did not make it clear that you have to have completely terminated the transaction with the deadbeat before relisting. Until the deal is dead in eBay's eyes, the winning bidder has the right to become the buyer, and if he or she pays and you fail to deliver because you've committed the item to someone else, you face a Non-Performing Seller action.

I understand that negs/neutrals for buyers were eliminated because the threat of retaliatory negs by sellers was discouraging honest feedback, but I agree with decoarn that removing the seller's right to leave appropriate feedback for buyers has made eBay a deadbeat's paradise. I have no doubt that bringing back full feedback would lead to the old problems, but a valuable compromise would be to make the buyer's terminated transaction rate part of the public record, the way bid cancellations are. This would help a seller judge the quality of the bidder, and cancel and block a bidder if the history were bad.

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I have gone and checked buyers who I reported as non-paying after the fact, and there is no indication on their profiles that they failed to pay for an item. There is no protection for the sellers.