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This HURTS, is unfair and shows again why Ebay is hurting sellers.
Doesn't this rule put an umbrella over ALL buyers? Not ALL buyers are honest and good!
It hurt me (unfairly) so I abandoned my profile and am starting out at "0" again.
I'd rather do that then have negative feedback that's NOT TRUE.
If you're interested, here's the story. If not, The above mention is enough.

Sometimes even Ebay makes mistakes and sometime down the road, reverses or changes it polices to reflect something that makes more sense, to right some wrongs or fix something that's not working. That happened one time. Someone left me negative feedback and I just let it go, even though it was not warranted. Later, Ebay removed the feedback on their own, stating that what happened in the past, concerning feedback, wasn't correct. Now, someone has left me negative feedback that's not true, therefore is a lie. The buyer is upset that Ebay made them pay for an item. An item they bid on and won, then refused to pay for, via emails to me OUTSIDE of Ebay. I didn't even want to open up the case, period. Thirty days went by and then Ebay billed me for the item that the buyer backed out on. Ebay FORCED me to open the case or make me pay for the "final value fee". When I said "I'm okay with the buyer backing out, I'll relist it", Ebay said "no, you have to file a case or pay us". So, I filed the case. All for $2.11. So the buyer paid under the threat of Ebay giving him an unpaid strike. Then left me bogus feedback about shipping charges, and this is important, it's all a lie. So, Ebay's policies regarding this type of situation is wrong. The feedback should be removed. I was always proud of my 100% feedback. So now, I'll abandon my 109 positive feedbacks, my profile and my good name. I'll start all over again. All for the $2.11 that Ebay FORCED me to pursue. Maybe someday down the road, Ebay will see the wrong that was done (since it's very easily seen)and remove it from my feedback. It make take a year, maybe two, maybe never... but I'll wait.....and for now, start all over again at "0".

I was just trying to make a little hobby of selling t-shirts with designs I created, nothing big. I have purchased things on ebay in the past with no problem. But when i started a seller account on ebay, things went very wrong. They wouldnt let me set a flat fee for my shirts right off the bat, so I had to auction them. This meant I had to post the 40+ designs, and then relist them every week hoping they would sell. I saw these fees mount, and I assumed that when a certain design sold, the fees for that particular design would be deducted from that sale, and on and on. But no. After almost a month the first shirt sold, and although the transaction says complete, I have not received the money in my checking account. Did it disappear into my vat of fees? I can't find any evidence of this. I ended all my listings, but unfortunately another shirt sold. I haven't seen the money from it either, and now ebay has taken over $300 from my checking account to pay off their fees from my little creative hobby! I am poor, I won't lie. That money was to feed my family for the next two weeks, and it's gone. I wrote to them to complain, but was only told the seller fees were listed clearly. What wasn't clear was that it would be taken out all at once. Payday advance, here I come! When these fees are cleared, I am shutting down my paypal and ebay, never to use again!

I opened a store on cafepress.com/rukkusrants. Let them do the work, I will just wait to receive any profit, I hope.

Ebay sucks. Buyers can use neg feedback to rape seller's business reputation whenever they like. If you protest, ebay would say you have to respect the buyers' decision. They don't care about sellers at all. They always tell you to obey ebay's policy. One of the feedback policy is to base on the fact. Some horrible buyers just come up any excuses to leave negative feedback. When you try to prove the fact, ebay/paypal don't care. Ebay doesn't consider sellers are the customers at all. Totally disappointed. I am moving to other websites.

Right now EBAY treats there Sellers like Prostitutes , they force us to work hard with little or no compensation and no options to voice you concerns Ebay is at its worst ever i am closing my accounts and stick to craigslist and othe sites that values there sellers .

There is a charge on every thing you do and there policies only allow them to make money

I HAVE BEEN READING AND I MUST SAY THERE IS NO WAY REALLY TO MAKE MONEY ON EBAY ANYMORE , i MEAN NO WAY , IF YOU SIT BACK AND THINK OF A IDEA HOW YOU WILL LIST YOU PRODUCTS AND HOW IT WILL BENIFIT YOU I CAN ASURE THAT YOU WILL BE VIOLATING ONE OF EBAY POLICIES .

I WAS READING ALONG AND SERIOUSLY I HAVE BEEN THINKING OF LEAVING EBAY BUT I HAVE FINALLY COME TO MY DECISION NO MORE EBAY I AM GONNA WAIT UNTIL MY LISTINGS HAVE EXPIRED OR SOLD AND TO HELL WITH THEM, BECAUSE THEY ARE JUST USING SELLERS AS A SMALL SELLER MY TOTAL SALES FOR THE MONTH MAY BE $550 AND MY SELLERS FEES ARE ONE $170 NOT TO MENTION HOW MUCH PAYPAL HAS TAKEN THEN YOU HAVE SHIP OUT STUFF THIS IS REALLY A ONLINE SLAVERY GOING ON .

SELLERS WORKING VERY HARD AND DOING ALL THE WORK AND THEN INSTEAD OF BEEN PAID YOU ARE PAYING THE BOSS WHICH IS EBAY AND PAYPAL

Ebay is gouging, that's the term commonly used to describe practices such as theirs. I'm pretty well fed up with ebay, too like others here. If you only buy on ebay you're probably not aware of it but just start selling stuff there and the charges and fees come flying at you. You wind up feeling that you you might as well have just handed the merchandise over to ebay. If you're selling your own stuff you wind up getting next to nothing for it when ebay's collected its fees and if your selling for profit you're not going to see much. ebay's like any business. Once they taste succes they get big headed and think they can do whatever they want and ebay sucks as much money out of their customers as they think they can get away with. They've, at this point, developed the screw you attitude toward their customers. I've seen this type of behavour by companies over and over. They can't manipulate buyers because the ball is fully in their court-buying is at the buyer's discretion-so they put the sqeeze on sellers. Hey, WTF-more money for them. Who gives a s**t about the customers (sellers). They need to sell stuff to get rid of it or make some money themselves so ebay's got them by the balls. This is the way walmart treats its suppliers to provide low prices to shoppers and, by turning over huge volume, HUGE profits for them. It's all about who's in the driver's seat-not about fairness.

I don't believe the people running eBay really know how to run a business. The first rule of running a business is to treat your customers right.

Both the buyers and sellers are eBay's customers. Both groups need to be treated honestly and FAIRLY. To emphasis the treatment of one group over the other is not right. A careful balance needs to be crafted and it needs to be fair.

If you thought of eBay as a retailer, the sellers could be considered their vendors. If you treat them poorly and make it impossible for them to do business with you, they will either close up shop or go somewhere else.

Without vendors (sellers), eBay has nothing to sell to it's customers (buyers). Without sellers, there will be no buyers.

I know this seems pretty simple but it really is THAT simple. eBay needs to GET IT!

This last month has been my worst month as a seller on ebay than ever. It may be due to a number of factors including the economy and ebay's practices. Actually, all of the fees added up together since I have a store front has cost me more this month than I made through sales. At least ebay could be smart enough in trying to tie fees with sales especially for stores when sales are down. This cannot continue and I may have to take down my store if no sales are made this month at all. I can't afford to be paying ebay for nothing and getting no buyers for my ebay store items. Ebay and paypal take a percentage on everything so that total costs for their commissions can amount to around 33% of an items selling price. Profit on an item is usually around 10%-20% so that money is being lost everytime.