It's against the ToS, considered Feedback Extortion. Most sellers don't want to risk their account, being totally banned is a much bigger deal than being less p

It's against the ToS, considered Feedback Extortion. Most sellers don't want to risk their account, being totally banned is a much bigger deal than being less promoted for a while. Messages like that are monitored, and I assume transactions are too. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but most sellers will just suck it up and deal with the rare negative. Further as a seller you don't want to "just give out refunds/free stuff" every time someone throws a negative at you because you're just inviting in all the scammers. Also sellers cannot leave negative feedback for buyers -at all- so that also contributes. https://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/feedback-extortion.html https://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/feedback-extortion.html