Consequences of Upcoming Feedback Policy Changes

Most of the boycotters have talked about how it would be a disaster when sellers can no longer leave negative feedback to buyers. There will be scammers coming out of the woodwork trying to extort goods from honest buyers. I’m sure that will be a problem but there is something else that’s almost never talked about. What about unscrupulous sellers? It is bit of a touchy subject to talk about crooked sellers because there is a risk of making all sellers look bad but everyone know there are bad sellers out there. You know the type. They steal item pictures and descriptions while charging exorbitant shipping charges. Of course they have no compunction about creating a bogus account and then buying up competitor’s items and then leave pile of negatives. Now the honest seller is frantically trying to repair the undeserved negatives while rest of his items disappear off the best match search results because of wrecked DSR and potential customers flee. The net result is damage to seller’s reputation, loss of sales, loss of listing fee since eBay doesn’t refund listing fees and loss of valuable time that he could have spent on his customers and improving his business. The unscrupulous seller can repeat this over and over again until basically run the honest seller to the ground. Are you scared yet?