eBay plans to ban sellers giving buyers negative or neutral feedback from May. While I appreciate it’s reasoning that “many buyers would not leave negative comments for fear that sellers would retaliate”, sellers now have no public response to a buyer giving them unfair negative feedback, unless they get eBay involved.
The current system is flawed, but there isn’t going to be a perfect solution and this isn’t getting us anywhere closer.
The first thing sold on eBay was a broken laser pen for $14. (Via Kottke).
eBay US member oshkoshcomputers is selling two Windows XP Home keys on eBay which he claims to have gleamed from a Toshiba computer.
Not only is this illegal as the license is non-transferable, but he shows the CD key on the item picture, and it’s clearly legible. Now that this has been posted on Digg and lots of other news sites, these keys have no value as they’re certain to be black-listed by Microsoft.
If anyones interested in buying an as new SPV M600 Windows Mobile 5 phone (also known as the i-mate JAMin), then you can either bid on the eBay auction, or offer me something before someone bids on it.