posted on November 4, 2000 02:12:39 PM
I can't believe it. I had a customer on ebay with a minus one total feedback bidding. Does ebay have any sense? I cancelled the bid and now have no bids with 9 days to go and feeling better than a potential stiff bidding.
posted on November 4, 2000 02:23:15 PM Sometimes things aren't as bad as what they seem.
Last week I had a -2 total feedback win an auction. While staring at the feedback, negs for never responding to emails, and wondering if I should bother or just try to make a deal with the second highest bidder, the winner emailed me requesting my address to send payment.
2 days later the payment arrived Express Mail.
The problem was the bidder had joined ebay, bid and won a few items, and was called out of state on a personal matter. Not realizing the ins and outs of ebay, she came back to the 2 negs. She was now trying to clear her record.
I asked her why she just didn't reregister and start again, and she said it was a personal pride thing with her.
However I know she is probably one of the exceptions to the deadbeat bidders, and I have had plenty of those too.
posted on November 4, 2000 02:48:26 PM
I agree w/barrelracer on this. I've recently had a -2 bidding on an item. I decided to let it stand & they paid faster than most of my other bidders. I checked this week & they've dug their way up to the +10 level.
Sometimes people get off on the wrong foot or they don't understand the system.
The down side is they might have been a potential customer & now you don't have any. The most you could have gambled is a couple of days.
posted on November 4, 2000 02:56:21 PM
I think you have to get to -3 total before being NARU'd, and even then, it's not automatic. (I had a deadbeat the other day with a -5, still registered. I emailed safeharbor, and he was NARU'd quickly, but it's ridiculous that I would have to do that.)
Anyway, a -1 in itself isn't necessarily that bad. There's a big difference between someone with 1 neg and 0 positives vs someone with 51 negs and 50 positives.
posted on November 4, 2000 10:04:16 PM
A -1 isn't always bad. My best sale was to a -1 bidder. I let his bids stand. He bought a book for $450 that I paid a nickel for. The money was PayPaled the next day!
posted on November 4, 2000 10:15:37 PMamalgamated2000: When an account reaches -4 total, it is automatically prohibited from bidding, listing, or leaving feedback. NARU is a manual process as far as feedback goes: somebody has to report the account so it can be NARU'd.
