eBay doesn't let sellers give buyers negative feedback anymore (they did for a time). It's the philosophical equivalent of "everybody gets a gold star". The 8

eBay doesn't let sellers give buyers negative feedback anymore (they did for a time). It's the philosophical equivalent of "everybody gets a gold star". The 80 characters can come in useful if you're on the fence about an auction- if the negatives come in the form of "didn't get here fast enough" left 3 days after the auction end, they're easier to overlook than "item was used, dirty, and broken instead of new, fraudulent seller". It does allow sellers to squelch bidders with less than a certain number, reducing the ease of creating throwaway accounts for nonpayment or shill bidding purposes.