Welcome sir.Why have you kept your Feedbacks Private ??howsoever sorry if i asked anything personal,And yes the -ve feedbacks are not showed as removed near the ebay id`s, as primary rule of Democracy is "Innocent until proven Guilty"., Thus the feedback if the community finds, represented by jury as abuse of system, Then its removed without any blemishes on the seller reputation, as the allegation was proved to be an abuse of the feedback system.
With us over here its alteast, ok, the community court deals,.And nobody cares much about libel or slander cases, as indian system is lot slower on TORTITIOUS cases, please refer to this
http://tamebay.com/2008/10/buyer-sued-over-negative-feedback.html, as in states and uk the reputation is taken very seriously and feedback is not made a personal revenge thing, and is purely professional business transaction.Thus see any UK or US sellers, all are having DSR of 4.8 and 4.9 above, and the joke is we indian sellers are currently benchmarked on the median value of u.s standards for the D.S.R.
All said and done ,in the end the buyer if he is genuine he just wants what he desired at the price which he has agreed, if he doesnot think the thing which he got is same or if he is not happy with it, he should communicate with his seller and get it resolved, or via the eBay system, maligning his fellow trader partners reputation with red and black tatoos is not the way to go.
Its a symbiotic system,. live and let live, buyers want to buy from sellers, and sellers want to sell to buyers, as simple as that, there is demand from both side, which needs to be fulfilled in a right attitude and manner, what many are missing is the manners , etiquettes and attitude, when one pays for some goods, the buyer buys the goods, not the sellers or traders, that is the most important reason that a buyer should understand, he has paid for the specific goods, and specific services, and doesnot own his trader,
The same is true for the sellers, some sellers think that if they are selling goods at cheap rates, they are free to abuse and mistreat their buyer`s, well the sellers reponsibility is never to mistreat his buyer, and give him full support irrespective of the cost of the product, the seller which believes in this is a genuine seller., and the buyer who believes and respects his sellers time are genuine buyers,
Then there are those rogue sellers and rogue buyers, for whom the feedback system is made, and is working, atleast now the buyers are left off the hook., there no policing on them.
Thus my