eBay has announced a change that is sure to devalue the eBay community. Due to problems with sellers leaving retaliatory comments when a buyer posts negative feedback, eBay has decided to ban sellers from leaving negative comments about buyers. eBay is skewing the trading process by allowing buyers to leave negative comments about sellers, but not letting sellers respond to the comments. eBay’s response so far is “if a buyer doesn’t pay, the seller can easily contact eBay, we will review any complaint and maybe remove the buyer.” eBay claims thats that only a minority of sellers leave negative feedback for buyers, so why not put a moderation system is place instead of removing the ability all together.

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