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It's human nature to be complacent, most people don't go looking for a solution until they actually encounter the problem.

ebay won't bother with the complaints. As long as there is no court order or similar ordering his account to be shutdown, or fraud where he takes money but does not send anything, pretty much they won't do anything.

Most ebay buyers do not really notice the feedback percentage. 98.2% seems a pretty decent rating to most people, typical mindset of people would be to think that it is a high rating. Unless his rating drops to like 70% or continuous negatives come in, then perhaps others would take notice before bidding. An analogy would be like grades in school, a 98.2% score is excellent and does not need a second thought.

What most ebay buyers do not think about is 98.2% is the ratio of positive feedback to all of his feedback. So currently he about 8101 feedback score, which approximately means 8101/0.982=8250 total feedback. The additional 150 feedbacks are actually negative! Does not seem good to have that many negatives.

For me, to purchase from a seller with extremely high feedback score (eg in the thousands) needs to have a near to perfect rating, like 99.6% and above.