Re: [MOPO] A major problem continuing to face eBay sellers due to misguided rule changes

2009-06-14 Thread CK MacLeod
Your own post, Brek, answers your own complaint.  Ebay has unique value to you, so you're stuck there.  I've been selling on eBay for several years, and still do the bulk of my business there.  I never checked a buyer's feedback before completing a sale.  Why would I waste my time?  The

Re: [MOPO] A major problem continuing to face eBay sellers due to misguided rule changes

2009-06-14 Thread Bruce Hershenson
Mr. Hershenson feels a need to complain about awful rule changes. WTF does he care? Why is it his business? ... I've had someone relatively well-known in the poster community with whom I've never even done any business and whom I hardly know decide to go on a personal campaign against me.

Re: [MOPO] A major problem continuing to face eBay sellers due to misguided rule changes

2009-06-14 Thread CK MacLeod
I would never refer to Mr Hershenson as relatively well-known in the poster community. He is the standard for known, I'd think. Relatively aint in it. I don't see why anyone would have thought I was referring to him, but let me confirm that I wasn't. Though I've naturally heard the kind of

Re: [MOPO] A major problem continuing to face eBay sellers due to misguided rule changes

2009-06-14 Thread Bruce Hershenson
Good response! In my own words, I simply noticed that because I received those ten negs near the end of my eBay career, my feedback will soon look simply dreadful (10 negs vs 300 positives). That got my blood boiling over what that jerk did to me, so I posted about a year old event. As to what

[MOPO] A major problem continuing to face eBay sellers due to misguided rule changes

2009-06-13 Thread Bruce Hershenson
When eBay changed the rules and made it that sellers couldn't leave feedback, I predicted that some number of buyers would take advantage of this and blackmail sellers into free items or discounts, using the thread of negatives as a club. That was one of the reasons I decided to leave forever,

Re: [MOPO] A major problem continuing to face eBay sellers due to misguided rule changes

2009-06-13 Thread Brek Anderson
I totally agree and wonder what the hell they are trying to do. I wish I could leave eBay, but I don't know how or where to sell the wide variety of items I sell for higher $. My last 5 sales have been a 2001 A Space Od. 6 sheet for $1600, Stella guitar for 800, a train for 300, 7 45