How to be a good eBay Buyer:

1)Usually the people selling are individuals, not giant corporations, so before you snap off your indigent email(example: YOU FUCKING CROOK!, the shipping was $5! I bet if you put it in an unpadded envelope and shipped my widget to me that way, it'd be $3!), take their capabilities into mind. A person on their own usually can not refund you because you didn't like the color.

2)Read The TOS, and don't try to make up your own. The TOS are tailored by the seller to what they can or can not do. By reading this, you'll know if you can just pop off a credit card payment or if you need to send a money order. You'll also know how much shipping is.

3)Know Thine Shipping. Some sellers jack up the shipping price, so always look for the shipping price, and see if that's what you want to pay.

4)Use your Negs. The right place to use your negs is NOT when a seller denies some unreasonable request that isn't in their TOS(Neg: He wouldn't let me drive to his house, and pick it up! It's only 500 miles!), or when you have buyer's remorse, or didn't like the color. It's reserved for serious things, like seller took your money, didn't give you an item, and cussed you out when you politely asked 'Did you ship my item"? Feedback should be factual and courteous. Noone can tell whether you're telling the truth when you're yelling CROOK! IDIOT! SCAMMER!,etc, because for all the reader knows, you could be out of your mind. If his emails were rude, merely put rude emails.

5)Read your emails- if a seller gives you an email, pointing out a problem(they shipped the wrong item, but then figured out their mistake and got you the right one), read it. Don't neg because you didn't read

5)eBay is a two way street- the buyer also has responsibilities- to pay promptly, to read the TOS, and to be polite if any problems pop up.