As longtime buyers and sellers on eBay, we are honoring the strike.

We understand the fee increases. We're not happy about it, but that is the cost of doing business.

What we cannot abide by is the total lack of regard for the seller by not allowing us to leave anything but positive feedback.

Yes, the current FB system is flawed, but this is not a fix. All sellers will now be open to feedback extortion, unfair negative FB, and more unpaid items...all because the buyer "can" and we have no recourse.

Unfair negatives will then lower our FB and DSR scores, then PayPal will put a 21-day hold on our funds. That means we will have to ship packages out of our own pockets.

There's so much more to this, but there's no sense in going into it.

As many other sellers are doing, we are taking this time to look for new venues to sell. What remains to be seen is how many sellers come back after the Strike, and in what force.