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:

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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.

If you read many Ebay seller boards, many sellers feel the following way about eBay’s feedback and DSR systems.

Buyers don’t pay Ebay a cent to buy an item. Sellers spend tons of money monthly, and have very little to no control over who purchases from them and how they treat us as sellers. Most are honest buyers, but of course, a few “bad apples” abuse the current system to try and get free products and the seller is left to deal with the crazies or live with ‘bad feedback and dsrs’.

The biggest aggravation of Ebay is Feedback and DSR ratios. A real turn off is the fact that Ebay has forgotten who pays them!! We, as SELLERS, are their customers, who pay eBay money in the form of fees and subscriptions, and thus account for their revenue. Ebay, it seems, considers the buyers as their customers and sellers as middle men.

Welcome to BitchAboutEbay. This is a new off-site spot to vent your frustrations about ebay. Love it, hate it, love to hate it, or hate to love it – we all have strong feelings about Ebay.  I’d like to keep this blog about Ebay issues.  (Let’s not call out specific buyers or specific sellers) If you post a comment and have an Ebay store or auctions, please feel free to post a link to them. Please join in and let’s have some great discussions – about the good and the bad! Thanks!