| Ebay ® unfortunately scammed me out of money | | | | system. |
| by stiff arming me in to paying for services not | | | | Fake bidders kept requesting I leave them positive |
| rendered and then they ruined my reputation by | | | | feedback after sending them a penny. I wanted to |
| saying that my | | | | leave them negative feedback, however since ebay |
| First off, a few months ago I had over 90 positive | | | | ® removed this function, I was being held hostage |
| feedback with 100% satisfaction on ebay. This was | | | | by all bidders to leave them positive feedback |
| earned over years of transactions. Unfortunately | | | | because they are the only ones that can hurt my |
| ebay ® recently made some changes that really | | | | credibility by leaving me negative feedback. If I didn't |
| hurt my business in several ways. Including my | | | | leave them feedback and they sent me money, they |
| business reputation, pocket book and lots of wasted | | | | had the right to leave me negative feedback. |
| time. | | | | On 9/4 I sent an email telling ebay ® the following: |
| I have been selling on ebay ® for years, however | | | | (exact message below) |
| I began selling web site hosting services on ebay | | | | I have several hundred listings for hosting online. The |
| quickly within one month racked up over $400 | | | | reason I listedall of these online was because I |
| promoting my products and business. I was offering | | | | thought since people were bidding theywere going to |
| a discounted auction to give ebay ® users a great | | | | sign up for the service I was offering. So a few |
| start up rate on web site hosting. I was offering | | | | hundreddollars later, it turns out 3 out of 4 people |
| them an introductory rate of $.01 or $1 for a few 1 - | | | | are bidding on my itemsjust to hold me hostage for |
| 3 free months of services. | | | | positive feedback. This is terrible andexpensive. How |
| I soon found out that other ebay ® users were | | | | can this be resolved? |
| buying my auctions and not signing up for hosting | | | | I never received a response until 9/10 when ebay |
| services, therefore costing me a large amount of | | | | ® shut down my account and hundreds of my |
| money. I later complaned about this (see below). | | | | auctions I spent around 50 hours working on. I was |
| After some research I found out why I was getting | | | | astonished! I attempted to contact ebay ® |
| a lot of people buying my auctions and not signing up | | | | regarding this on the phone, however their phone |
| for my services. Turns out that ebay ® created a | | | | number hangs up on you and does not offer any |
| search function that gives ebay ® users better | | | | sort of support. This company is very scarey, |
| rankings if they have higher feedback rankings. | | | | because I believe that companies that treat |
| Additionally ebay ® implemented a feature that | | | | customers like this are destined for failure. |
| requires a certain amount of feedback for users to | | | | After requesting help and spending hundreds of |
| be able to sell on ebay ®. So in essence what | | | | dollars with ebay ®, my account was shut down. |
| was happening was people were bidding on my | | | | Not to mention, many legitimate accounts I obtained |
| auctions that I paid ebay ® for, sending me (often | | | | ended up cancelling services from me because ebay |
| times) one penny and then requesting positive | | | | ® sent them a letter saying that I was abusing |
| feedback. This had me outraged because it was | | | | their services and that any feedback I left for them |
| costing me large amounts of money to list these | | | | was not legitimate. This type of thing was a major |
| auctions and costing a lot of money on marketing. | | | | defamation of character for my business. |
| Then a lot of my auctions were being taken down | | | | After everything I have paid around a thousand |
| by fake bidders. | | | | dollars paying and improving my ebay ® auctions, |
| Another thing that ebay ® did was remove ANY | | | | put in tons of hours and feel abused by ebay ®. I |
| SELLERS ability to leave negative feedback about | | | | also am shutting down several companies that I run |
| buyers that treat sellers poorly, which makes | | | | that use paypal ® as a payment provider. |
| absolutely no sense because sellers are the only | | | | Obviously this is all my personal opinion and ebay ® |
| people that pay ebay ®. These people that help | | | | and paypal ® are all Designated trademarks and |
| make ebay ® succeed in the stock market are the | | | | brands that are the property of their respective |
| ones getting treated terrible and not being able to | | | | owners. |
| protect themselves from buyers abusing their | | | | |