Seller Can Retract Bids If You Leave Negative Feedbacks? Lol

I have mentioned this before here. This is ebay's answer to seller protection. It is up to the seller to discover whom they are dealing with. Every seller in the world has always reserved the right to refuse service to anyone. The internet gives everyone anonymity. Thus making it difficult to determine who those "anyone"'s are.

I had a sale where I did the exact same thing. The bidder was a little more obvious in my case, all his FB's were negative and involved cases. It seems ebay is doing this to get rid of lazy buyers who open cases, but it is affecting the frugal shopper.

My own feedback is as checkered as yours, partly because I have bad luck, but partly because like you, I combover questionable auctions, looking for a deal. I suspect as more legitimate sellers discover this ability, it will become more second nature. Buyers like you and myself will have to prove we are not trying to bait and switch, but rather simply expect to receive what we read.

People that buy questionable listings looking for a deal are gambling.....& need to accept the consequences of their actions. I'm not in any way excusing sellers from shipping the item that's in the their listing. However, many times I hear about buyers that bought a coin/item with fuzzy pictures(or no reverse picture, or assumed it came with..., or whatever) because they "thought" it might grade higher, or wasn't cleaned, or was a certain variety, or it looked like that might be X at the edge of that pile. When it turns out their gamble was wrong it's somehow the sellers fault. There's a reason those type auctions sell for less than market value. If you aren't willing to accept the risk don't bid on those type auctions.

It really depends on what the seller lists. I expect to be sent what is listed no matter who they are. I have gotten a great lot from people with 5 feedbacks. There are times I accept the risks like this lot below:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/US-Indian-C...p=true&rt=nc

Remember without the A-Z garauntee people would be less likely to give people a break and place a bid. This was a nice lot here, the seller had little to no feedback at the time:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/COINS-AND-C...p=true&rt=nc

The last two negatives I left were actually about jewelery I bought for gifts and weren't lots. One looked obviously fake and not what they listed and the other was just junk.
I watched a video about Chinese jewelery scams, listing fake and plated nickel jewelery as the real deal.

What I saw on that first link is a bunch of lower grade Indian heads that appear to be mostly non-culls, no copper-nickels and there was no mention of any dates. If you are that concerned about fakes you can' t buy lower grade, common Indian cents for 70 cents a piece, I don't know what to tell you. They are not fakes and SELLING FAKES AS REAL COINS IS AGAINST ebay POLICY. They could have been all 1907s but fortunately they were from 1880-1908 mostly VG-F with the exception of one 1868 with a small scratch.

I get your point, expect to send what is there and if you can't tell, accept what you get with the exception if it breaks ebay's policy. Here is one coin from the lot:

Wow! I didn't mean to start an age old argument here. For that, I apologize to the OP for any derailment. However, I feel you are both right. It simply depends on your point of view. Whether primarily a seller or buyer.

Sometimes when I buy and "gamble" I reread the auction. Should I determine that I may have misread the auction and the seller was smart with their wording, I do accept the loss. I tend to not leave feedback at all in those instances.

While at the same time, when I sell, it sometimes is still a gamble. I.E. when I allow "checkered" buyers to bid with impunity, because I'm hoping for the highest amount possible. Regardless if I cherry pick the bidders, which I will continue to do to bidders with only negative FB and cases on every auction. Anything else is just bad business.

Finally, there will always be an instance with mitigating circumstance. Maybe the seller was unaware of any wrong doing, because they didn't know what they had was counterfeit. Special circumstance call for judging those instance on their merit.

My original intent remains the knowledge that there is seller protection on ebay. Its my hope that both buyers and sellers understand, use properly, and accept it. No! I don;t work for ebay, but as a tool, it only works if the majority work it.

No ..but a smart seller who knows the ins and outs of ebay sure knows how to manage their favourite buddies list. If we even think there is going to be a difficulty with a potential bidder buyer, we exercise our right to make them a favourite buddy. In any store and ebay is a store a seller has every right to decide if they wish to refuse service. If we get an offer on a BIN we certainly see what kind of feedback buyers leave. if their trail is littered with negs and general unhappiness off they go to the Buddies list! After 40 years in this business I suffer fools very lightly and have no times for bidiots. It is part of the earned right of getting old and cranky gracefully! . In my learned opinion ebay makes it easy for buyers to destroy a good sellers reputation if they so desire.

@TRD oh how true. It was a far fairer system when you could warn the ebay community about bidiots by leaving negs for buyers.

\that is why only BIN for us. We almost never do ebay auctions anymore.