A big fuck you to AB moderators for not having a buyers back and for protecting a scumbag vendor practicing feedback retribution.
rant I have almost 60 purchases.
I have left negative feedback only one time. It was 2 years ago on a seller that did a quick scam and run by asking for FE. I did the FE when they bolted I did not even bother disputing it because it was less than $50 and if the seller had some trapped escrow I wanted it to go to others that may have been more hurt by it. I only left the negative to help populate their profile with red marks so nobody would keep buying.
About a year ago I had a fairly popular vendor go ballistic on me for leaving them negative FB. Long story short, I never left this guy negative feedback. No matter what I said he would not believe me. He was one of about 8 people that I left no feedback for out of the 60 orders because his product was shit. However, I am from the old school of feeling we are all in this together so I don't leave neutrals or negatives if I did not like the product. If I don't have something nice to say I just don't say it. This vendor sent me a dozen harassing messages. I finally told them that if I HAD left them negative they would be breaking every rule in the book by harassing me and that if I got one more message I would invite admin to the conversation. I told him he was obviously doing too much of his own product and to back off. I guess the threat of admin worked. But to this day I am sure that vendor thinks it was me even though early on I offered to make a forum post for a moderator to back me up that I had left no feedback at all.
A couple of months ago I placed an order with $35 express delivery and after nothing showed I started sending messages to vendor and all asking him to track it. No tracking was provided back and in fact all of my messages were totally ignored. It was not a cheapo $50 order that I was going to blow off so before it auto finalized I submitted a dispute. The vendor responded to the dispute asking if a reship was OK. I said yes, the order came (though not Express) and I immediately released the dispute and left very good positive feedback.
Today I was told by a vendor that they won't take my order because of my feedback. I had never checked my buyer feedback because, well, I would not have imagined there would be any problems. However, among all the positive feedbacks there is one from a vendor that says "This person sandbagged me. Scammer buyer."
There is no way to see who left it but the only "exceptions" I have ever had are the the situations I mentioned above. I have no idea who left it since there are no dates or any hint who said it. I immediately opened a support ticket explaining I have completed every single sale, have only left one negative 2 years ago and the only dispute ever was solved. Within 2 minutes I got an answer that said "no modification will be made", and ticket was closed.
Why does AB even have a trust system when it is so easily abused and manipulated?
60 purchases (not ebooks and pre-rolls, real shit), level 5 trust but some fucking asshole has left a comment that turned away a vendor of a difficult to source, expensive product.
I have never been a big fan of having significant volume on a buyer account because of opsec concerns. But the reality of the current world for the items I buy in the amounts I get means that the few suppliers out there want to know that I am not a newbie. Now I don't know whether to burn the account and start over or sit back and risk future rejections of my business. Somethings broken here and it is not me. It is a weasel seller allowed to break the rules on a market whose sheer enormity has transformed the staff into apathetic cunts. I'll say it again - fuck you AB. /rant
Have you considered telling the vendor about the situation that lead to that negative buyer feedback? Talk to your vendors, please. They will be more understanding, perhaps not fully understanding but more
Tell me if you operated a small store and you had an applicant with multiple felonies including theft on his rapsheet. You would instantly ignore this person yes? What if the theft was of diapers and baby food? You would think differently.
Convictions are negative feedbacks left by your government, all negative feedbacks without context look very bad.