One Neg. feedback is killing me!

koolkitchens
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I'm just a new powerseller and was just strating to finally get my sales up and an established 100% feedback. Last week I got my first neg. for an item the guy started out saying he didn't want and wanted all his money back including shipping. When I offered to replace no questions asked, he changed his tune to "it is broken and inefficient" and wants his $ back and blackmailed me with neg. feedback. When I wouldn't refund, he left me the neg. Since then, my store is sucking wind! More visitors than I have ever had and no sales.
Does anyone have any advice on how to deal with a neg. feedback like this? This one feeback has bsically killed my store. Do I just have to wait it out? Even if I offered to give it back now, the damage is done.
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funkywatch_com
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One negative feedback will not kill your store.

There is not enough stuff to buy right now. List more products, start a few auctions. You will make sales and that neg will be buried in a short time.

There will always be idiots shopping from us. Most people are decent though, and they will see through this. Look at the feedback he left for others! He is a jerk. Don't worry about it.

eric
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Perhaps it's been too long a day, but your store only has 4 items in it, however, when I went into the item itself, that the guy complained about, at the bottom it has a bunch of other stuff, like foodsavers, that appear to be running? Tis odd that they show up there and not in your store but anyway.

As a note, you can still recover from the negative if you satisfy whatever he wants and get him to do a mutual withdrawal. Having said this tho, depending on how mad he is it might go for naught, it you fix it and he doesn't do the withdrawal. Given he has other negs, it isn't as likely to work out.

I have recovered from a couple negatives by leaving the buyer a negative for not emailing or working with me to resolve issues they reported, then responding to them politely via email, and after discussing what they want fixed, fixing the thing they had issue with (which I would have done if they'd emailed me in the first place). Some folks don't expect sellers to work with them and neg off the bat without any communication. Usually if you're polite and offer to work with them they will come around.

Anyway in the worst case, looks like you're risking well under $50 to try to fix it up.
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koolkitchens
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Thanks for the advice!

I'll definately look into beefing up my inventory. I think the reason all items weren't displaying was an ebay.ca/ebay.com thing. I'm registered on Ebay.ca but most of my items are only sold wihtnin the US. You are probably just seeing the ones currently available to Canada.

I guess it is all a learning experience in dealing with people. And ou are correct, most are great to deal with
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wsboyd
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Don't worry, for every 1 Neg., you just need 2000 more Pos. to erase it...
:^O
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZwsboyd
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jeffglobal
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Yeah, best suggestion would be to use the Mutual Feedback Withdrawal option. They probably don't want the negative feedback either, so this option should do the trick (since you left them a negative in return already). Depending on the situation, know that eBay will also manually remove a negative feedback under the right circumstances -- I once had a guy buy 8 items from me and then leave me 8 negative feedbacks a few months later after never having even paid in the first place. Turns out somebody hacked their account and eBay took care of removing the negatives. I know it's not the same situation, but knowing that eBay is SOMETIMES on your side when it comes to feedback removal is a plus.
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sunshine2426
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When I got my first neg I didn't let it bother me because I know I did nothing wrong. My sales never slowed because of neg feedback.
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shadow_3211
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Hello all, I just turned powerseller and went through a similar sitution. I sold some pottery it was packed as well as could be I was certain of that do but these postal guys/gals have a 9 to 5 job and the stuff isn't theirs and it seems that some stuff got broken I didn't know this until I looked at a neg feedback saying that the packing job was bad I sent two boxes like that one to the west coast and the other to the US the one to BC arrived without a hitch and then he emailed afterwards mentioning that I was at fault and I said is it even remotely possible that the carrier could be responsible this is fragile I had even posted stickers on it saying so from CP. So he said he was going to send the bad pieces back I told him to send it all back and I would refund the entire amount minus shipping he said what's done is done and he will keep it and will not back doen from the Neg feedback!! You just can't win em' all.
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and I would refund the entire amount minus shipping

Why should the buyer pay shipping? Whether the fault lay with poor handling by the PO or your packing, it certainly was not the buyer's fault.
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alero0
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This is another case where sellers give the buyer the option of insuring their shipment. I insure every shipment. If anything is lost or damaged I can make a claim. Adding insurance to the S+H is a small cost (which the buyer pays)and it saves the hassle of telling the buyer that he has to pay for any return shipment due to damage caused by the carrier. I agree with zarzuella that the buyer should not have to pay for returns caused by poor handling. On the other hand if the buyer wants to return an article because he changed his mind and doesn't want it anymore then they should pay for the return shipping. This could be the reason why your buyer didn't want to back down from the Neg Feedback.
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koolkitchens
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Well I used to think a buyer shouldn't have to pay shipping to return an item until a fellow eBayer pointed out that Walmart doesn't give you cab fair or gas money to return an item. You would be hard pressed to find a retailer who would - even if you had to drive a day and a half to return it.

If a multi billion $ company doesn't reimburse it, I cannot afford to.

I state my policies in every listing. If a buyer doesn't like my terms, they shouldn't buy the item.
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That's your perogative. Just don't complain about the negative feedback your policy is likely to generate.
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onecrazycanuck
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Ya move on and get over it!
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katem8650
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WE RECENTLY RECIEVED A NEGATIVE FEEDBACK, IT SEEMS REALLY FISHY, I MAILED A BOOK ON A WED AFTERNOON, AND HE PUT NEGATIVE FEEDBACK THE VERY NEXT AFTERNOON, HE DID NOT CONTACT ME NOTHING, I CANNOT BELIVE HE RECIEVED IT THAT FAST, AND HE WILL NOT RETURN MY EMAILS. I KNOW THIS BOOK WAS EXACTLY AS DESCRIBED. I AM ANNOYED, BUT I WILL NOT LET A RUINER, (NEW WORD) GET ME UPSET. HAS ANYONE HAD THIS HAPPEN? THANKS KATE
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My expedited parcels within Ontario/Quebec routinely are delivered the next day, so he could indeed have received it in that time frame.
By the way - You might want to take your caps lock off - your post and item description are hard to read. All capitals are considered to be 'yelling'.

Ann
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bestshowtime
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Why should the buyer pay shipping? Whether the fault lay with poor handling by the PO or your packing, it certainly was not the buyer's fault.
I believe that buyers have to chose method of shipping. And if they don't care about insurance it is buyers problem. Seller should just offer all services and good packing. But if somebody start to use you parcel like soccer ball it is not my problem. It is post office problem and buyers to report damage, register parcel that it is damaged.
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bestshowtime
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zarzuella
Now I see why you think that it is seller's fault.
You just selling books!!!
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alero0
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bestshowtime
I would hope that with the product that you sell you would insure your shipments on your own. Besides being very breakable you also write I give 100% guarantee you will receive as shown and described. With a statement like that in your listings I would say that you're taking responsibility that your customers will receive their item unbroken. If I were you I wouldn't leave it up to the buyer to purchase extra insurance. Once you give a guarantee, it falls on your shoulders.
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Wow. You're quite a piece of work, bestshowtime
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bestshowtime
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If I were you I wouldn't leave it up to the buyer to purchase extra insurance. Once you give a guarantee, it falls on your shoulders.
Do you know alero0I never had problem with extra insurance. Usually customers ask me about it. But I lost one case with paypal when I received broken figurine and can't prove that it is broken because I didn't report that box was damage. Seller promise return money if I return figurine but not for shipping cost. To ship it both ways to UK cost about 40 GBP=$85can. Price for figurine was just $65can. I just keep this figurine but learn my lesson.
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