Don't forget that the potential for buyer fraud is huge in this scenario. A buyer can get a Discover card with a $10,000 limit, go on a spending spree, dispute all of the transactions as fraudulent, the buyer could then get all the stuff, discover would zap the money back from the sellers, and there isn't one thing any sell could do to stop it or at least warn other sellers.
Thats exactly right and if ebay implements this new policy I will never again leave any feedback for my buyers. At least the old system gave the buyers and sellers incentives to work out their issues because of the fear of retaliation. As for me I have always, even at my expense, to make deals to the buyers satisfaction and I still occassionally would get hit with something negative. When you do alot of transactions something is bound to happen. Some times you would get buyers who don't care to see things resolved and just leave negative feedback in spite. Then watch your income dip because you have something negative at the top of your feedback profile.
Now all will happen is sellers will stop leaving feedback all together. Buyers will have much less feedback. Sellers won't work cooperatively with customers because there is no incentive to. Even if buyers have the power to withdraw negative feedback there is no guarantee that they will. It is in the seller's best interests to keep customers happy and it is ebays best interests to keep it sellers happy (ebay's true customers) and to find and eliminate frauds. This new plan will undermine all of that.
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Don't forget that the potential for buyer fraud is huge in this scenario. A buyer can get a Discover card with a $10,000 limit, go on a spending spree, dispute all of the transactions as fraudulent, the buyer could then get all the stuff, discover would zap the money back from the sellers, and there isn't one thing any sell could do to stop it or at least warn other sellers.
Thats exactly right and if ebay implements this new policy I will never again leave any feedback for my buyers. At least the old system gave the buyers and sellers incentives to work out their issues because of the fear of retaliation. As for me I have always, even at my expense, to make deals to the buyers satisfaction and I still occassionally would get hit with something negative. When you do alot of transactions something is bound to happen. Some times you would get buyers who don't care to see things resolved and just leave negative feedback in spite. Then watch your income dip because you have something negative at the top of your feedback profile. Now all will happen is sellers will stop leaving feedback all together. Buyers will have much less feedback. Sellers won't work cooperatively with customers because there is no incentive to. Even if buyers have the power to withdraw negative feedback there is no guarantee that they will. It is in the seller's best interests to keep customers happy and it is ebays best interests to keep it sellers happy (ebay's true customers) and to find and eliminate frauds. This new plan will undermine all of that.