Okay, this is all making sense to me now from your point of view. I still don't agree but I *get* it now.
You've said elsewhere on a few different occasions that you buy for resale.
I'm guessing you are bidding on sweet, sweet deals from inexperienced sellers or sellers who set their prices to be low simply because they either don't know any better or they don't give a hoot. I suspect that would be the only way you'd be able to find something selling for low enough on ebay to be able to resell it for a profit.
Let me tell you that I tried this too when I first began to amass my collection.
Here's what happened:
One of every ten sweet deals from new or inexperienced sellers turned out to be a lovely surprise. Five of every ten were an utter disaster with undisclosed damaged and the worst packaging possible. I received one item that had been completely waterlogged like it had been left in a ditch; another contained half-hatched bugs in the box; another was folded in half to make it fit, one had been packed with a king's ransom of void fill and then squashed to fit on to it.... the list goes on. I was charged triple for postage, cursed at if I dared to complain etc. Four of every ten were a mediocre experience, neither remarkable for being good nor bad.
Eventually, I decided my sanity was worth more than a sweet deal. I quit buying from those low count sellers no matter how tempting the deal appeared to be and went with those who were experienced and had good feedback and charged a little (or a lot) more but could guarantee not to waste my time. (And sanity.)
And I always left honest feedback, good or bad.
I understand that you feel leaving any kind of negative feedback will put you at a disadvantage.
I would encourage you to rethink this for your own good and the good of others who come after you.
If every buyer having a bad experience with Items Not as Described were honest about it, you'd know better than to waste your time and money with that seller. The seller mistakes you describe sound less to me like errors of deliberate intent and more like mistakes made my people who either don't know better or who don't fully appreciate the consequences of their actions.
Or maybe use multiple selling IDs and scatter your high-risk purchases so that you don't leave 12 Negatives in a row. I always made certain I left feedback for every purchase and I left a Positive in places where a Neutral might have done better. As in, I was careful only to leave Negative Feedback only for the sellers who really really deserved it. Any 'normal' ebay user can look at Feedback Left For Others and ascertain what is fair comment and what is not. I count on that. I was not one blocked from purchasing for any of my FLFO.
And if I had been, I doubt I would have cared.
As any seller on ebay knows, there are more sellers selling stuff than there are buyers buying it.
The buyer is King. We are the lowly seller serfs and hope not to arouse his anger.
That being said, I know you are an intelligent woman. I don't expect I will change your mind, I'm simply sharing my own perspective as I did walk in your shoes for awhile. I changed shoes. They were not comfortable for me.
