| As the editor of ebay-guides, one of the largest | | | | product, or, AVOID AT ALL COSTS." It is a no |
| article requests I get is for fixing damaged | | | | win situation. Or is it?The fear of receiving |
| feedback. Now don't read anything nefarious into | | | | negative feedback not only sours users on ebay, |
| this request; there are hundreds of reasons why | | | | but it also helps that bad seller stay in business. |
| someone may receive bad feedback. There is | | | | Instead of avoiding the bad feedback experience, |
| little doubt feedback is very important for both | | | | embrace it. Turn on the flamethrower and blast |
| buyers and sellers. A rating in the high 80's or low | | | | the seller, and when you get hit with retaliatory |
| 90's and you can almost forget about doing | | | | feedback, bury it. How? Simple. Buy positive |
| anything on ebay. While most negative feedback | | | | feedback. While ebay would prefer you don't, and |
| is well deserved, there are those out there who | | | | they take enormous steps to stop people selling |
| will use it to make threats or demand | | | | it, there are really no fallouts to buying it. So how |
| concessions. The "give me what I want or else," | | | | much does it cost? About .01 cent. Surprised? |
| scenario seems to be the most prevalent. Should | | | | Many people are. Yet day in and day out millions |
| someone be able to hold your rating hostage? | | | | of positive feedback are purchased for one penny |
| Certainly not, and the purpose of this article is to | | | | each.If you find yourself in need of fixing a |
| show you how to overcome a malicious | | | | negative feedback left by another vindictive |
| feedback.An unfortunate problem when you have | | | | ebayer, simply do a search for ".01 cent ebook or |
| a global marketplace like ebay, is the guaranteed | | | | .01 recipe." This should bring up several thousand |
| number of bad apples. Ebay does their best to | | | | auctions; more than enough for you to bury that |
| weed these individuals out, but they can't get | | | | negative feedback.Don't abuse the system, as |
| everyone. Every once and a while someone will | | | | buying too much feedback can be just as bad as |
| order an item and it will arrive in the mail | | | | selling it. Buying 25-50 positive feedbacks over a |
| damaged, or worse, not even close to what was | | | | day or two should cause no problem for you as a |
| paid for. Contacting the seller to resolve the issue | | | | buyer. I've employed this method in the past, |
| then results in the threat of negative feedback, | | | | testing it as both a buyer and a seller with no |
| and an all caps attack on an otherwise perfect | | | | problems. As a final note, I suggest buying from |
| feedback rating. Basically, the seller is employing a | | | | sellers who have marked their auctions as private. |
| method I like to call "mutually assured destruction." | | | | There is no point in fixing your feedback if |
| In the same way it has prevented nuclear war, it | | | | anyone can click on the most recent received and |
| will often allow sellers to get away with things | | | | see they are all .01 cent buys.Chris Yarbrough |
| they should not be getting away with. You say | | | | writes for Ebay Guides, a free resource site with |
| "bad seller" he says "you never even paid for the | | | | hundreds of articles and guides. |