If I live 200 miles from the nearest airport, I’m probably not going to spend too much time worrying about a Boeing 747 falling on my home because it came up a little short of the runway. If I live one mile from the end of the main runway of a major airport and their landing lights have a history of malfunctioning, then it might be a different story.

That was my first thought a short time ago when I read Randy Smythe’s post And So It Begins! in which he talks about a new web site for “serious eBay sellers” called BidBlocker.

BidBlocker’s home page says:

“The only way sellers can protect themselves from unwarranted negative feedback is to block problematic Ebay customers. Customers who have left negative feedback in the past are more likely to do so in the future.”

Unwarranted negative feedback? - In more than nine years, selling across six eBay User IDs with a total of more than 14,000 feedback I’ve received a total of eight negative feedback ratings. Were any unwarranted? Two may have been, but even those two were from buyers who honestly felt they had a legitimate complaint.
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