Get Negative feedback removed on ebay $20

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John

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Originally posted by: Optical
As for the feeback wars, if you know you're going to leave the buyer/seller a neg FB, just wait til it gets close the 90 day limit, then leave him a neg FB. If the other guy can't sneak his FB in before the deadline, then he can't reply. Yea, it's a bit dirty but that's the only to avoid the neg reponse. I have to try this out but about to (unfortunately).

I left feedback for an individual on the 90th day, and a she gave me a negative (retalitory) 9 days later!
 

Greg03

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>>Most of the time it is some retard that has no business even being allowed on Ebay.

Once an idiot left an undeserved feedback. He also had a website which showed all his family, his high school, his entire life. The kid had money and the moron told me his family was poor and left a neg feedback. I mirrored his website and exposed him much to to his father's dislike.
 

RobCur

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Originally posted by: EvanGeliSt
man... ebay will do anything for an extra dollar :p
Yep! They charge to my CC even after changing method payment to mail in, and try to get me pay additional 15 dollar because they try to charge to an expired CC. I refuse, they then suspended my account, no problem, their loss! I'm tired of their ridiculous hidden fee and shady business practices that is making them extremely wealthy and the rest poorer. Most of the thing I bought off ebay was a scam, junk item, useless stuff that was nicely worded and wasn't exactly what they described.
 

bluetiger

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Originally posted by: IgoByte
Hey, this is just like the Catholic church...

;)


Next thing you know there will be a loop whole where ebay demons of negative feed back will rule the earth. Sorry just watched Dogma 2 hrs. ago. but seriously it sounds kinda shady.
 

Devistater

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I tried this and the dang guy who LIED about me on my feedback form and put the only negative feedback I have, never responded. Basically the negative feedbacker has to respond for this to move forward, at least that was the case when I did it a year or so ago. I was even willing to remove my negative feedback from him to get mine back. I never did call the guys phone number to see if he lied about his contact info. I should try that someday.
 

Devistater

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Originally posted by: GnatGoSplat
I have a bunch of neutrals that started out as positives, but turned neutral when those users somehow got themselves kicked off Ebay ("No Longer Registered").

I noticed more recently, when a user gets kicked off Ebay, their positive feedback to me stays Positive. I think that's more fair.

I guess I'm being too picky here, but any way to get those Positives turned Neutrals turned back into Positives? :D

They changed it a while back. I think BOTH pos and neg stay now after a guy is no longer registered. Unfortuantely.
 

SinfulWeeper

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<--- Over one hundred sixty positives on ebay.
<--- One negative.

That negative pissed me off. I had a accident the day of auction ending and was in the hospitol for 3 days. On the fourth day I finally fired up my computer since I can finally sit down with 'bareable' pain.
Just to find out eBay was sending me notices of non-payment. I left him a retalitory negative... kinda lame to do so... but only four days?

Too bad it is too late to get that one removed for me :(, more so considering it was only a $9 dollar pair of jeans :p
 

dircom

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Apr 5, 2002
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I posted neg feedback by mistake. Both seller and I agreed it was a mistake. Ebay would not remove it. Said I had to go to Sq Trade (and pay them)
 

mithrandir2001

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What a crock of sh!t.

People don't seem to look at feedback anyway. There are high volume sellers out there with positive feedback ratings under 90%...e.g. 5000 positives and 550 negatives. That's horrible but people just keep on buying.
rolleye.gif
 

VaG

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Originally posted by: JohneverdI currently have 334 positives with 0 negatives. It seems to help A LOT to be extremely patient, try to handle any awkward situations professionally, and to treat people with extra care. That's the way most business was conducted back 50 years ago, and it's sadly more or less gone now. Not to say that I haven't had my share of s*itheads, that I haven't expected a negative retaliation or two, and had a lot of luck too. Feedback damage can be minimized by being polite and professional, even to that non-payer.

I hate to tell but none of that means much. I have over 1000 feedback 2 neg & 3 neutrals and all of them are positive comments but there so many idiots on eBay that eventually you will find someone that can't even choose the proper radio button and they will leave a positive comment but accidentally choose a neutral or negative for you or you will run into someone that has invalid contact info. You can be as polite and patient as you want in your bounced email or whatever you say after the ding, ding, ding you get when you dial their phone number but it won't help. They will just leave you a neg saying you never answered their emails.
 

straubs

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Um no. I sent out a $30 item with DC and provided it to the buyer. A week later I look at my feedback and he puts a negative on for me saying I never sent it, this after 120+ positives and he having a ZERO rating. I contact his PO and they said it has been sitting there waiting for him to pick it up for 4 days. They left two notices on his door. I contact him and explain the situation. Oh, sorry he says. I contact Ebay, nope, it stays. So no, once it is there it stays.

Dude, that's LIFE. You can be the best person in the world and there will still be someone that hates you or screws you over in some way. Just let it go!
I hope you never open up a business!

Anyway, NO ONE CARES if you have a negative, as long as it's only a tiny percentage of your total feedback. Most people don't even check for negatives at all! So basically, worrying for this is too much. PAYING for it is WAYYYYYYY too much!

 

TranceNation

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Originally posted by: tajdtj
Anyone know how to get reinstated on EBAY, I tried to sell some OEM software with hardware and was suspened indefinitely.........

yeah start a new userid
 

Eli

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Originally posted by: BentValve
Originally posted by: SafetyDance
How come I get this sick feeling that SquareTrade is owned by Ebay?

Mike


Yeah, Ebay has become omnipresent.

Would I bid from a guy with 2 or 3 negatives out of 100 postives ? You bet I would.
Would I bid from a guy with 2 0r 3 negatives out of 50 postives? In a heartbeat.

Screw Squaretrade , Ebay and Paypal.

BTW I sold a laptop on Ebay awhile ago, Ebay got $30, Ebay err Paypal got $30 . Good grief.


I know.. it sucks. :( It makes it difficult to make money.
 

Ranger X

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$20/per negative feedback? Not worth it. Everyone is bound to get a negative feedback sooner or later. The bidders will know that if you have, for example, a 97.8% positive rating rate, they'll overlook the negative feedback.
 

avhokie

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Originally posted by: alyosha
Feedback is overrated - many people boost their feedback buying 100s of 3cent items, wait a month until the links to the auctions are no longer available - and here you go - great ID with huge feedback ready to rip somebody off...
edited: so I dont care how huge the feedback list is - until I see that the guy did several deals recently and got feedback to auctions I can verify...

That's why eBay should add some new categories to show with feedback. For example:

Total spent on auctions with positive feedback (buyer)
Total spent on auctions with positive feedback (seller)
Total spent on auctions with negative feedback (buyer)
Total spent on auctions with negative feedback (seller)

That way, you can quickly tell if someone has 100 feedback from $100 in total auctions.
 

QueBert

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I think Ebay needs to rework their feedback system. I mean one guy I bought from, my money order got there 4 days late (because I'm lazy hehe) and he still gave me "A+++++++ good buyer, would do business with again" Is there actually any pattern? I mean is "A++++++++++" really better then "A++++++" I don't mind negative feedback, so long as it's not for a huge expensive item.
 

QueBert

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The key is to "read" the product description before you bid. I recall last year when Xbox's hit the market, and were extremely hard to get ahold of. Somebody on ebay was selling an "Xbox, Box" as in the box it came in, no xbox, just the box. It said so 2 or 3 places in the description, even once in bold I think. Any ways the auction ended for like $350, wonder if the moron who didn't read and got an x'box box for 350 bucks left negative feedback? heheh that is so funny to me.
 

govikes

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dircom,
Had the same thing happen to me. The buyer left glowing feedback for me, but mistakenly hit the "Complaint" button. I contacted him and he was very apologetic, even contacted ebay admitting his mistake. I, too, contacted ebay about it. They "checked into it" and I got a lengthy email reply, but it boiled down to this paragraph:

"We wish that in cases such as yours we could bend the rules. However, this is one area where we must be rather stringent. This is because of the liability posed to us should we vary from this policy. Please review the information found in our feedback removal policy at the URL listed above. Hopefully, after doing so, you can see how our hands are bound in this situation."

I did post a follow up comment to the negative feedback explaining this was an obvious mistake but ebay wouldn't fix it. BTW, it is the only flaw in my 210 feedbacks, but I've since moved on :)
 

laugh

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Dec 21, 1999
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this sucks... ebay should fix the apparent mistake. dang. again, it sucks. oh well.
 

J5im8yo

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This sound like nonsense to me. It's like paying FBI to erase your previosly murder record or something. I mean if someone left you a negative feedback and its true then take it. If its not true too bad there is nothing you can do about it. For those truthful negative feedbacks buyers are able to tell if the seller is trustworthy. Well, now you can pay 20bux to erase the record and everyone gets a perfect record buyers won't be able to tell the difference between bad and good seller anymore. Nonsense.