Anyone noticed that a growing number of buyers are using the system to their benefit or worse targetting dealers they know just to leave negatives..for the hell of it!?

Not wishing to name or shame such buyers, but we just had an experience that pretty much amounted to blackmail!

For example if we don't give him free records totalling £100 the buyer would leave negatives. All over a 99p single min bid that he won!

Anyone else suffering at the hands of the new breed of buyer who clearly are excited by Northern Soul. Either that or are seriously disturbed mentally!

Anyone noticed that a growing number of buyers are using the system to their benefit or worse targetting dealers they know just to leave negatives..for the hell of it!?

Not wishing to name or shame such buyers, but we just had an experience that pretty much amounted to blackmail!

For example if we don't give him free records totalling £100 the buyer would leave negatives. All over a 99p single min bid that he won!

Anyone else suffering at the hands of the new breed of buyer who clearly are excited by Northern Soul. Either that or are seriously disturbed mentally!

No, but its like Trip Adviser. Guests can write what they like about their stay at your establishment, and the comments stay for ever, and can be very damaging to businesses. Aparently, people are leaving bad comments about rival businesses. Some people are sick.

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Anyone noticed that a growing number of buyers are using the system to their benefit or worse targetting dealers they know just to leave negatives..for the hell of it!?

Not wishing to name or shame such buyers, but we just had an experience that pretty much amounted to blackmail!

For example if we don't give him free records totalling £100 the buyer would leave negatives. All over a 99p single min bid that he won!

Anyone else suffering at the hands of the new breed of buyer who clearly are excited by Northern Soul. Either that or are seriously disturbed mentally!

Kev all you need to do is phone ebay on their helpline and they would probably expel the pwerson who's doing that to you, and why you can't name them I don't know, I'd have plastered it all over the internet!

Anyone noticed that a growing number of buyers are using the system to their benefit or worse targetting dealers they know just to leave negatives..for the hell of it!?

Not wishing to name or shame such buyers, but we just had an experience that pretty much amounted to blackmail!

For example if we don't give him free records totalling £100 the buyer would leave negatives. All over a 99p single min bid that he won!

Anyone else suffering at the hands of the new breed of buyer who clearly are excited by Northern Soul. Either that or are seriously disturbed mentally!

Kev, Pete Is Right Contact Ebay And Explain Whats Happenning No Matter Which Way You Gloss This Up It's Blackmail And There Are Laws Against This Too!!

We have done and EBay say he hasn't really threatened us. The guy has a 100% trading record so I suspect that has influenced them.

He has clearly targeted us for 'game playing' knowing it wouldn't be worth our while to argue.

I have to say it's not the first time either. A couple of years ago we sent a £30 record out to someone(valued at 75).

He said the condition was not as described. We offered a full refund plus a free single to keep him happy. His response was ' £30 back, £30 in free stuff' otherwise a negative and we'll hammer you on......Soul Source!

eBay clearly have decided the customer is always right and it's rife at present to be clobbered. We know other dealers who simply put it down to ' the way it is'.

Sadly I think it's going to get a lot worse.