posted on September 11, 2000 01:29:11 PM new
No, feedbacks are never removed.
When you remove a "winner" it simply generates an email to the 2nd highest bidder (if there was one) and informs them they are now the winner. They are not obligated to purchase (they might have won one from someone else by then).
If you don't have a back-up bidder it's not necessary to actually remove the first one. That generates an email to them stating they are cancelled with a link to leave the seller feedback. No use in encouraging that. You can still relist the auction without removing them. (Clicking re-submit will simply give you a message along the lines 'we will relist a duplicate ad since that one had a bidder.)
posted on September 11, 2000 06:05:44 PM new
jwoodcrafts
They got a notice from Yahoo when you negged them. It's called a "You have been rated" notice. You get this no matter what type of rating it is. I do agree too, don't let them get anything else relating to your auction. It may push them into negging you.
posted on September 11, 2000 09:09:02 PM new
In the past, I've had no-pays actually SEND THE PAYMENT when I cancel them and they get a "cancellation email" from Yahoo (this after several emails I'd sent with no response).
But now that Yahoo is COUNTING my number of "WINNING" auctions to get a "sell-through rate", I'm afraid that cancelling a bidder will move the auction from the "successful" ranks to the "unsuccessful" ones, LOWERING my "rate" and my number of "allowed" listings each month. I don't plan to cancel any more winners....just relist the auctions to resell the item.
jwoodcrafts, I APPLAUD you for having the courage to leave negative feedback. I hope Yahoo sellers won't all be afraid to neg deadbeats now for fear of having retaliatory negs LOWER their listing allowances.
posted on September 12, 2000 09:11:51 PM new
I had a sniper neg me, and it did bring my count down by one. This person had several ID's, when I canceled his bid under one of them, (bad file), he came back and bid at the close of another item with a differnt ID. How do I know it was the same drone? Because when he negged me, two minutes after close, his reason was my canceling his bid on the other item.
I reported him to yahoo, and did not respond to his neg for two days waiting on yahoo to reply to my mail. Their response was they would not interfere out of "fairness" to the other person? They thought being negged after TWO minutes was fair? Especially when this neg had nothing to do with this particular auction? It was pure retaliation for another auction. These drones can really hurt a seller now. Good luck to us all. We'll need it. But I will still neg to those who deserve it. I feel if I use the files put there by other sellers, it is only fair, (the TRUE meaning of fair), to leave some negs to help them too.
