Originally Posted by
rethreads
Forgive me, but you sound surprised.
One reason 99.9% of my sales have been domestic is that I have for several years shipped ALL domestic packages with Delivery Confirmation for just that reason. Far from being an equal trading partnership, it has become a question of the seller covering his butt.
Despite the DC, the last negative feedback I received was from a twit who bought two items (shipped together to save her money), left positive feedback for one, then claimed not to have received the other (this is the Case of the Teleporting Plate). She had been a (buyer only) member for 6 months and already had a feedback score of nearly 600. In other words, she'd been buying an average of 100 items a month. By her own admission, she had bought so many similar items that she didn't know what she'd bought from whom. Now, I'd bet the farm I know what happened to that item--some trash collector was going, "Dang! why'd somebody throw this out?"
Because I had logged in the DC information as a note to those items at the time of shipment, e*ay could not prove anything either way, and did not refund her out of my funds. They did, however, allow her negative feedback to stand. As an aside, she left another negative for someone else the same day, also for nonreceipt.
e*ay does not care that some people are idiots, as long as they're spending their money on e*ay. They don't care about you or me or anybody else who's been around there, because they're recruiting a new breed of buyers who have no concept of what the site used to be, patting their widdle heads, and assuring them that they can have whatever they want on their own terms.
Talk about a prime opportunity for another site to step into the breach with some advertising...