Originally Posted by sortie

Ebay has a rating system and I have found it to be totally worthless.

People actually "buy" positive feedback by buying everything they can find for a
dollar and sending payment right away and then email you asking for feedback and
hold you hostage with their feedback until you leave a positive for them.

The biggest assholes on ebay have the highest ratngs.

I've never left negative feedback on ebay no matter how bad things were because the other party would simply retaliate through the system.