jada
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posted on December 14, 2000 04:39:10 PM new
Eastwest - I wasn't being a "smarty", you asked for advice, not criticism, and that is why I asked you about the $15.00 handling fee.
You also didn't answer any of the questions, the answer you did provide made no sense to me.
You can do whatever you wish, but if you charge a non-disclosed $15.00 handling fee after the auction ends, a lot of bidders will be upset and angry.
I'm outta here.
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eastwest
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posted on December 14, 2000 04:42:00 PM new
sorry i did not mean that , that way,,,sorry about that i should have used ..."hay this is what i do" again sorry
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eastwest
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posted on December 14, 2000 04:45:32 PM new
There is no handling fee on any of my auctions ...the only handling fee is for someone who ...buys outside of ebay..basically i reward people with a 30% off on the web site and wave the handling fee ..if they want to add to the order. People out side ebay pay the price listed plus the handling fee ..unles they purchase over $30.00 and then again the handleing fee is waved!!!
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cassiescloset
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posted on December 14, 2000 05:15:01 PM new
Everyone starts somewhere. Why don't you research the 0 bidder a bit before cancelling bid. I would cancel bid if I notice bidder has bid on many items but has no feedback. This tells me the sellers were too scared to post a negative, encouraging more deadbeats for everyone.
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jamesoblivion
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posted on December 14, 2000 05:17:31 PM new
Just to balance things out and put them into perspective, if I read that in an auction, I would not bid. I have a feedback number of nearly 1500, with close to 2000 positives in total.
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jamesoblivion
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posted on December 14, 2000 05:20:50 PM new
Oh, and it's nothing personal, by the way. You have to do what works for you, but realize that terms like that are offensive to many. Hopefully your gains will outweigh your losses in whatever you do.
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PAINSS
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posted on December 14, 2000 05:26:30 PM new
EXCUSE ME!!THERE WAS A TIME WHEN YOU ALSO HAD 0 FEEDBACK.DURNING THE PAST 2 MONTHS I HAD 9 PEOPLE WITH 0 FEEDBACK,AND THEY ALL PAID.MATTER OF FACT MOST PAID FASTER THAN PEOPLE WITH FEEDBACK.JUST KEEP TURNING THEM AWAY,AND I'LL TAKE THEM..
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bb5365
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posted on December 14, 2000 05:59:29 PM new
We all started with 0 Feedback and I have no idea what you sell but if you did have something that I wanted to bid on and you refused to take my bid because of my 0 feedback, I would never buy from you in the future. Not a thing no matter what it was. Im sure that the same item will come up for bid by another seller, and you lost me as a future buyer.
BB
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gawooley
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posted on December 14, 2000 06:05:07 PM new
eastwest, I agree with others here! If I looked at your items up for auction, I would not bid on them...because of your policy...not because I have "zero" feedback(nearly 400 here). I feel you may be hurting yourself in your attempt of avoiding deadbeats here. I looked at your auctions and you do say that "0" or less feedback bidders need to e-mail you first before bidding. If they do that and you STILL do not allow them to bid, that would be an even greater slap-in-the-face for these new eBayers.
I must join those others here that believe that your policy not only hurts you, but also hurts all eBay sellers, because if a "newbie" views your auctions first, they may become disgruntled with eBay, in general, and never return to find OUR auctions. And THAT is the reason I wouldn't bid on your auctions.
I suggest you rethink your policy. Locking the door on "new customers" seems a poor business practice...if one is interested in expanding their business.
George
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victoria
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posted on December 14, 2000 06:09:57 PM new
Because I sell books, crafting booklets, and other small affordable items, I get a lot of new people.
It's not them I have to send the "Is there a problem?" follow-ups to.
I think the newbies also like my optionable "pay with unused US postage stamps".
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LadyGambler
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posted on December 14, 2000 06:29:07 PM new
Don't you remember the excitement of your first Ebay win? Or sale? We all started at zero and learned what we know from trial and error. I have never once had any type of problem from a zero feedback newbie. They are usually SO FAST to pay and excited to be doing the Ebay thing. They are usually very appreciative when you help them along and give them useful tips on how to Ebay.
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eastwest
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posted on December 14, 2000 06:57:23 PM new
So what do you have to say about the 30 negs left at once ...by a o feedback ????
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loosecannon
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posted on December 14, 2000 07:00:10 PM new
Could have just as easily been done by someone with 100 fb, or 1000.
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mrpotatoheadd
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posted on December 14, 2000 07:22:43 PM new
Circumstances Where eBay Will Consider Removing Feedback
Multiple (3 or more) feedbacks left by the same user as part of a campaign to harass one or more users.
http://pages.ebay.com/help/community/fbremove.html
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bhearsch
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posted on December 14, 2000 08:52:37 PM new
Hello nycrocker. I don't really have a problem with a bidder who has an AOL email address so please don't be offended by my earlier comment. I was just responding to eastwest about my only deadbeat bidder who happened to have an AOL addy and zero feedback AND who also didn't answer my EOA notice in the three day time requirement of my TOS. I pretty much figured I was going to have a problem.
I will admit that the combination of the AOL address AND the zero feedback made me a bit nervous because of the many stories I had heard (mostly here on AW) about how easy it is for AOL users to just keep changing their user ID because of the seven? or more email addresses that they are allowed. Also, this was during the time period of the new partnership between eBay and AOL and many sellers were complaining about their increase in deadbeats, many of which were zero feedback AOL users. Of course, that was to be expected due to the large influx of new users from AOL and the problem would have been the same if the new users were from Earthlink or any other large ISP. I'm afraid AOL folks suffered a bit because of this bad rap.
I would never prohibit anyone from bidding on my auctions (except for an extreme situation) and I'd love for you to do so. 
Blanche
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sparkz
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posted on December 14, 2000 09:46:19 PM new
In the past 2 months, I've had 3 bidders with 0 feedback bid on my auctions. When I went to do a little background checking, I discovered that they had signed up the same day they bid and were not bidding on other auctions. All the auctions ended successfully and I was more than happy to give them instructions on what to do after the auction ended. (I put special emphasis on sending payment and leaving positive feedback I was very happy to give them their first positive feedback and to play a part in bringing new bidders to Ebay. Those are three bidders you won't have to worry about eastwest. I've taken the risk with the newbies, so they will be veterans when they come to bid on your auctions.
The light at the end of the tunnel will turn out to be an oncoming train.
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