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Sellers have an overwhelming advantage. I bought a bunch of dvd's they were shipped to the wrong addres, seller failed to respond for along time then denied, refused arbitration. When I finally (after a month of waiting for him to respond) left neg feedback, he immediately did the same. He has 2200 items, i have 12, do the math! No wonder all these big sellers have such high scores..they intimidate.

sellers do have a riduculously easy time of it. my beef is more with paypal (owned by ebay). denied my claim that a table i bought was misrepresented, then gave me the link to "Tips on How to Avoid Fraudulent Sellers".......

How about question retaliation? I wrote a seller to ask her a simple question what condition is the item in and she wrote me back. It was acceptable according to her answer so I bid on it. I looked to see when the auction ended if I was and no bids were on it. I wrote the seller to ask her why she took my bid off. I also have two retaliation feedbacks and I addressed that issue. I just said that I had learned a lot from those experiences. She wrote me back stating that "I didn't use the word please" when I wrote her and I wasn't to write her again OR she would tell E-bay I was harrassing her. I don't think that she needs to go around telling people that she is being harrassed by someone when all I did was ask her a question. That seller is *sew*what*. Ebay would probably believe it. Everything with them is all about the seller.

I use the service here to leave my feedback for me automatically, as soon as a i'm left a feedback comment the website replied to it randomly using one of my comments i have stored:

http://www.auctionpixie.co.uk

It helps prevent against feedback retaliation, which is good but then if everyone on eBay used it there would be no one every leaving feedback cause no one would do it first.

Cellularliquidation/Planetinstock/MDH Enterprises are the same, sponsored by eBay and their negative feedback stinks ! Cellularliquidation is a recently (less than 6 mo's) company that is a part of Planetinstock that sells cell phones on eBay ! Their volume is such that any negative feedback means nothing to the uninformed buyer. Look closely and learn.

The last time I joined eBay for the 4th and LAST time, I really took a good look at the items I was buying and the quality. The majority of the items I was buying were no where near the quality that the sellers had described. Of the 30 items I purchased only 5 were truly in "excellent" condition as described by the seller. Many of the items were in fair to poor condition and I paid way too much money for them. I felt like I was paying for yard sale quality at department store prices. But, I never left bad feedback for any of the sellers because I KNEW if I did, they would retaliate by leaving me negative feedback. I had it happen to me with the third account I opened on eBay. I ALWAYS paid for my items as soon as the auction ended or as soon as I received the full amount of what I needed to pay. However, one seller lied to me repeatedly about when he had shipped my item. I paid for priority shipping, but it took 3 weeks for me to receive my item. The guy gave me 3 different dates of when he mailed it and when it arrived it wasn't any of the dates he said. I left him negative feedback and in retaliation he left not only negative feedback, but LIED and stated I was a "slow payer". I emailed eBay with all the info I had that proved the seller was lying and what did they do? Nothing. They had the nerve to ask me to agree to both of us removing the negative feedback! I closed the account immediately. When I came back this final time, I realized I'd rather do without or pay department store prices because at least then I know the quality of merchandise I'm getting and I can return it if I'm not satisfied. There are A LOT of dishonest sellers on eBay who know they're selling crap or fakes at outrageous prices - eBay KNOWS they're doing this too, but they don't care! As long as eBay is raking in millions of dollars they don't care how the buyers are being ripped off. And their so-called "safety and protection" rules are a joke. I and 30 other buyers were ripped off by a known con-artist who supplied both eBay and PayPayl with fraudulent information and all they did was expel her from selling on eBay. They weren't even going to refund our money because the seller had wiped out her PayPal account - well, duh! I had to go through my CC company to get reimbursed and it took them 3 months to get paid back from PayPal. Unfortunately, some of the buyers had no recourse because they'd paid by check or money order. I would love to see eBay go bankrupt and out of business. It would serve them right! Btw, I will NOT be going back for a 5th time - I finally got burned one too many times to ever make that mistake again!