Olivia F.

PayPals company objective and function is to make free money from their customers. They promote themselves as a safe way to send your money or pay for things but what they don't tell you is that they try to steal as much of it from you as they can. They have 1001 excuses (literally) of why they have to put a "hold" on every cent that goes into your PayPal account, but they are really all for the same reason. To earn maximum interest for them in the stock market. They even say in their terms or user agreement that they will use our money for that! So you ask a family member to send you money urgently for an emergency and they send it to you via PayPal and what happens? PayPal pimps say they have to put a 21 day hold on your money to make sure you're not a risk to them, (or some other crap). Or you urgently need money for basics like food and so you sell something you own on eBay and it sells but then PayPal say they have to hold your money for an undetermined time because you haven't sold 50+ items on eBay yet. Or your account reaches $1,000 because you already had money in their and then your roommate sends you some to cover their half of the rent and it goes over $1000 by just $1 and your whole account gets frozen until you prove you're not money laundering. It's legal theft.

The majority of sellers on eBay are just your neighbor, someone's mom or dad, grandparents, disabled people, just regular people selling items to keep the lights on and food on the table.
Think of how it is for you in your job when you make an error. Think about how you would like to be treated. Was the error so horrible that you deserve to have your pay docked. Was the error so bad that you deserve to be temporarily suspended. Or did you really screw up and deserve to be fired. It's no different for a seller. DSR can and do SIGNIFICANTLY impact a sellers ability to sell on Ebay. And the rules are so strict that even 2 buyers out of 100 transactions can bottom out a seller in the searches if they hit the DSRs while leaving FB. Think about that next time you feel like leaving negative feedback. And sellers think about that before you even join eBay as you'll spend your whole time being at the mercy of buyers and kissing their butts till you can't take the degradation anymore