You are the clueless person of the day. EBAY FEEDBACK is essentially PERMANENT. They will not retract it for you unless it breaks very strict/narrow ebay rules like giving personal information away, linking to webpage rants, a court order is issued to do so, etc. In other words, if someone gives you really bad, extremely harsh, even totally false negative feedback, there is nothing you can do and ebay wont help you by removing it. Thats why I dont give away my right to leave a counterattacking equally brutal negative feedback by posting a premature postive one in a totally UNKNOWN situation like only getting a payment and shipping something out without any buyer handshaking whatsoever yet. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Godfrey DiGiorgi Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 10:53 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT- eBay How can a buyer blackmail you? You have the money, they have your goods. If they're dissatisfied with the goods, tell them to return them and then return their money. Use an insured, tracked shipping service only, and stipulate that in the communications surrounding the sale. If the goods do not arrive at the destination, the shipper is liable to pay out the insured value. If you have to ship where such service does not exist or is too expensive, get that into writing before you complete the deal, stating that the loss in a situation for non-delivery is between the buyer and the shipping company, and document that the item was shipped. It's the way business transactions have always been done. I see no reason to threaten a buyer with bad feedback so that they will write good things about me first. And if they give me bad feedback in an unjustified manner, I go to the auction host and have them remove it. (No one has ever given me bad feedback.) G On Jan 23, 2007, at 7:21 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > Fine. I do the same, although I don't restrict bidding. But good > communication and due caution are just common sense. But if you > provide positive feedback before the buyer indicates that the > merchandise is acceptable, you open the door to blackmail and possible > problems. Waiting for approval is common sense as well. Why would you > throw caution to the wind at this point in the transaction. The buyer > can still claim that you didn't send the merchanidise or that it was > not as advertised. Positive feedback is the only assurance you have > that this won't happen. Simple logic. Paul -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
