If you’re a buyer on the popular auction site Ebay, then you will no doubt know that pretty much anything you buy will almost always turn up on time and without fault these days, and if you do have issues with the product you have purchased you will quickly get a refund for the product, sometimes even keeping the product with a full refund.
As a buyer you also have the luxury of leaving negative feedback regardless of how your buying experience really was.
If you’re a seller on the other hand, it is a completely different story. Messages from buyers are abusive, purchases are paid for weeks after auctions finish. Buyers send threatening messages demanding a variety of things that are not included in the purchase.
The most common threat is negative feedback if the buyer doesn’t get extra things included in the purchase after the auction finishes. Buyers don’t read descriptions, and because Ebay has a policy that the buyer is always right. So the seller many times ends up giving items away for free.
Buyers have learnt how to get stuff for free from Ebay by manipulating sellers either by playing dumb and using Ebay's seller protection to get items for free.
Ebay treats sellers like crap, there is no protection for sellers from the pricks that buy stuff and leave negative feedback. When a seller is abused or threatened it’s nearly impossible to leave negative feedback for buyer who took advantage of you by threaten you or anything else that would considered unacceptable behavior in any other circumstance. Sellers rarely talk about these issues in public but I couldn’t take it anymore.