Can eBay get rid of a negative feedback left by a scammer?

PeglegJimmy · Post by **PeglegJimmy** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:02 pm

Well like my title said, any way for eBay to get rid of a negative feedback left by a scammer? Heres a link to my feedback score, look at my only negative feedback, and look at the guy that left its feedback, I contacted eBay before and they gave me an automated message, and they won't change it. Well thanks for the help people.

My feedback.

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:06 pm

The one from November of 2005? It's probably way too late to do anything about that now.

PeglegJimmy · Post by **PeglegJimmy** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:09 pm

Ya thats the one, I hope theres a way of eBay deleting that, did you see the others guys feedback, he scammed a guy with a car! This makes my feedback look horrible, because I only have 32 feedbacks to begin with.

Post by **CronoTriggerfan** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 1:17 am

If you take immediate action, it can be removed, but not after so long, I'm afraid.

I know the feeling man, I've got a mere 29 feedback points, and one negative, and only because a guy took 3 months to ship a copy of Kingdom Hearts and I complained about it. Good luck, though!

CTFan

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:02 am

Just keep getting good feedback and you should be fine. With such a low feedback score, I'm sure people would take that into account when they see your percentage. You could buy a few things and try to get it up to about 98%, thats about the lowest I go when I buy stuff, especially from sellers with hundreds of feedback, for those with less than 50, I think I'd go to 95%, depending on how good the deal is and what the problems were.

bacteria · Post by **bacteria** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:53 pm

What annoys me is the premise that many people have on e-bay that if you leave them perfectly valid bad feedback that they will leave you worse just because of your feedback. This is not what the feedback is all about.

I work on the basis that if you don't receive your item, to take a dispute out, then because they didn't send it they don't have a tracking number, so your PayPal gets refunded.

I have 100% so far with about 360 feedback, feedback rating between 4.8 and 4.9 out of 5. worked hard for this.

You only have a small number of feedbacks, why not just start again with a new screen name? Then you are back to 100% again!

Personally, as a seller, I don't care someone's feedback as long as they pay and pay fairly quickly; as a buyer I pay immediately and expect the item to be sent to me quickly. Everyone happy. Feedback is not an accurate guide that your transaction will go smoothly, or not go smoothly; only past viewpoints. To make this point, if you have someone with bad feedback, but won your bid, and paid you immediately, and had a verified address; you would have no legitimate reason not to send him the goods... in fact, if you don't send him the goods, you can't refund the money or he could scam you; and if you don't send him the goods you deserve negative feedback...

Twisted Warthog · Post by **Twisted Warthog** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 4:08 pm

Wow, that one sour comment sucks because it seems like everybody else is freaking happy and cheerful in all the other ones.

teraflop122 · Post by **teraflop122** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 4:24 pm

My third or fourth feedback was negative, utterly obliterating my score way back when I was a wee little newb. I still managed to operate on eBay successfully. I now have 151 positive and 1 negative.

I really kick myself because, had I known better, I could easily have had it removed.

The moral of the story is: one early negative isn't a deal-breaker.

My feedback

Twisted Warthog · Post by **Twisted Warthog** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 4:32 pm

Wow thats stupid that that guy left that negative comment teraflop. It says he eventually got his stuff.