Ebay to Ban Seller Feedback

Ebay has developed plans to change its benchmark feedback system by banning sellers from leaving negative feedback effective May of this year. It is Ebay's contention the the change is to "improve the overall customer experience". (huh?)

Ebay, from the early days to what is has now become has operated as a community, will both buyers and sellers given opportunity to rate their experiences. While certainly not a perfect system, it is one which has served the both the company and the site users well. To remove one half of the feedback system (buyers may still leave feedback) completely alters the system of checks and balances and skews the entire process in favor of the buyer.