Quote Originally Posted by nfpgasmask View Post
And you know, I can understand they want to make more money or whatever, but I REALLY don't understand the fact that sellers cannot leave feedback for buyers anymore. That makes no sense. There are so many dead beat bidders out there, and they need to be called out.
The problem was that there are deadbeat sellers out there, but buyers were afraid to call THEM out. Sellers have excessive power to destroy a buyer's rating in retaliation. I only have ONE neutral feedback, and that's because I gave a neutral to someone who scammed me with an item description. (I think "works!" means that it includes the wall-wart.) A ding against me is 1/70th of my feedback. I'm lucky that mine is high enough that it didn't bring my percentage down. The guy I dinged? 1/5300th of his feedback. My feedback meant nothing to him.

So, yeah... ebay feedback is totally broken, but taking it away is NOT the way to fix it. I do approve of the Detailed Seller Ratings that they put in May of 2007, though.