posted on April 5, 2001 06:10:35 AM
I have a bidder who was a deadbeat on 2 of my auctions. I just left feedback, and she has [b]0[b] positives and [b]7[b] negatives How can this be? I thought if your feedback hit negative 4 you would be NARU'd? The last feedback before mine was march 5? and that put her at negative 6???? ALl of her feedbacks read the same. No payment, no emails, etc.
posted on April 5, 2001 06:24:52 AM
be sure to post a NON BIDDER PAYER ALERT form for EACH of the items this buyer did not pay for. Here is the URL:
http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?NPBComplaintForm
Ebay will send the compaint form to the buyer as well as a copy to you. Ebay explains that if the buyer has four of these copmalints that go unanswered, they WILL be suspended.
So, if you post two of these, the buyer will have half-way to being off ebay.
It is supposed to be -4 for a feedback rating(-4 appearing next to their name, not just 4 negs), then they are gone.
However, someone needs to report it to ebay.
Don't know why they don't have a simple script to block the user, but, that is just the way it has always been.
posted on April 5, 2001 06:39:40 AM
Hopefully she will NEVER be NARU. It makes no sense whatsoever for ebaY to NARU a deadbeat. A deadbeat should be FORCED to bid with her neg-laden ID, with the dirty laundry there for all to see. ebaY actually does a deadbeat a FAVOR by NARU'ing her, leaving her free to open up another fresh ebaY ID with NO NEGS and no bid retractions to warn sellers. The next time a newbie deadbeats on your auctions, you can wonder how many times she has been handed a clean slate via the almighty NARU.
posted on April 5, 2001 06:52:59 AMSo, if you post two of these, the buyer will have half-way to being off ebay.
Unfortunately, this is not correct. It must be from 4 unique sellers/buyers. If your buyer bought 10 items from you & deadbeated, you could file for 10 FVFs & leave 10 negs but only the first ONE counts for impacting their feedback rating.
I believe the criteria for NARU on ebay is 4 unique FVFs filed against the person, not 4 negatives.
posted on April 5, 2001 06:54:31 AM
I just came across a buyer with 16 negative feedbacks!!! It makes me wonder how come they haven't been NARU'd because a lot of the sellers are high feedback sellers and they must have filed for FVF's! It makes no sense to me !!
posted on April 5, 2001 07:05:13 AM
I believe that buyers with lots of negative feedback don't automatically get kicked off ebay because EBAY (as usual) is looking out for themselves!
If a buyer with lots of negative feedbacks bids on an item, ebay gets a commission. If the buyer doesn't pay, the seller has to file a non-payer alert, and after ten days apply for a refund. If the seller neglects to do either, EBAY still gets their commission! I've met lots of sellers that don't keep track of these things and ebay knows it!
posted on April 5, 2001 02:17:41 PM
There's a seller with over 900 negatives--more than 50 have occured the past 7 days. And.......nearly every item listed has multiple bids!
posted on April 5, 2001 04:56:56 PM
At -4 feedback a user is automatically blocked from using the services (bidding, listing) but are not automatically NARU. It takes a report to safe harbor and then the user is manually NARUed.
On those users who have 500 or 900 negative feedback...how many total feedback do they have (total positives+total neutrals + total negatives). Percentage of negatives is a more realistic way to look at a feedback file IMO
posted on April 5, 2001 09:53:10 PM
If their total feedback number is -4, the NARU isn't automatic. Someone has to report them. NARU for negative feedback is a manual process, whereas the NPB's are automatic. If you drop Safeharbor a note about them, they will probably get NARU'd.
Hippy wannabe 
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