Dead beat bidders are truely a problem on ebay, but the worse ones are the ones that take part in the growing number of "malicious bidders" on Ebay that look for auctions about to close, then bid amounts to make sure they win. Then after winning these auctions.. within seconds they leave negative feedback.. sometimes very derogative and containing personal attacks.

This wouldn't be so bad if Ebay then had some efficient system to then remove these, as even though the feedback was left seconds or minutes after the auction.. sometimes they will not remove them.. or take excessively long amounts of time to remove the feedback. If they do at all.

Ebay I personally think is going to have make some changes in customer service or they are are going to risk losing business to other sites.. or people will simply stop using it with their constantly increasing fees and absoblutely horrible customer service that basically feeds you back to FAQs that tell you can't email customer service as the FAQ according to them answers your question. Then if you do get to email them.. an automated system sometimes searches for keywords and responds with form letters.. Arg..

Anyways.. you get the point.

Volhav