John’s take on this rant is 1)bend over; 2)bend over; 3)bend over. LOL Some days it happens. Very few buyers make us feel this way, but there are a few. Apparently John had a particularly RUDE customer. Read about it:

3 Easy Steps To Become An eBay Top Rated Seller

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I certainly understand John’s frustration. Even though we are a Top Rated Seller, we don’t deal with online bullies and idiots either. We all experience the BeRated Seller Status at times due to eBay’s system – he hit that one right on the head! We have even blocked potential bidders after they have asked a question, but never bid, due to their threatening tones. (When someone asked about our shipping charges and told US how much it actually cost to ship the item and if we charged them the full shipping price, they would report us to eBay, we blocked them and emailed them back that we don’t bend to cyberbullies. FYI: shipping was less than $5.00- yeah. Also FYI, actual postage cost is NOT the total shipping cost. Ever wonder where those envelopes, labels, tape, and printer ink come from? Not the eBay fairy?!?!? LOL) We try to be fair, but fair does not mean ‘giveaway’. We all have to protect our businesses as best we can, and by blocking them on the front end, we don’t have to worry about retaliatory feedback. We don’t put up with rudeness in person and we don’t put up with it online either.

Holy CRAP! : Google Steals eBay From Yahoo!?!

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ColderICE is shooting the news forward – we’ll see what happens with this new development!
Or maybe what doesn’t! Or what they take away in the meantime:
As coloradofoothil commented on this post:
As of September 1st, Ebay sellers can no longer upload their feeds to google. Ebay will have to upload the feeds for individual sellers. Ebay’s feeds to google have been rejected because they are not using the proper item condition. Google only accepts New, Used and Refurbished, while Ebay is still isnsisting on using Brand New, Almost New etc. — Google also rejects too many capital letters in the title , trademark symbols and other non-alphanumberica characters.
Ebay sellers ‘ referalls will decline just as fast as it has risen in the last 2 weeks in August. To make matters worse for Ebay sellers, Ebay has decided to remove the Ebay blogs which many sellers use to be seen on google with the RSS feeds. That will be in effect November 1st.

My comment: It seems eBay loves balance – For every good thing they give, they take away an equally good thing. Grrr…