eBay question: no possible negative feedback from seller?

Hello, I recently sold a whistle on eBay. It was my first eBay sale. All went fine, got the money, and left a positive feedback already to the buyer.

My question is: I saw an eBay message saying that buyers can’t receive negative or neutral feedbacks from sellers, so there’s no need to fear “retaliatory” negative feedbacks from sellers. That’s great, but what if the buyer doesnt give you the money, or gives you other sort fo problems?

Also, does that mean that ratings on a buyer don’t mean anything anymore? We will always see “100%” positive.

There must be something I’m not getting…

Buyers can still give sellers positive/negative feedback. Also, as a seller, why would you ship something before receiving payment? The new feedback system does create a large flaw in that sellers can’t report bad buyers but it does at least address the issue of retaliatory feedback which has been present since the beginning. The current system is definitely of more benefit to buyers. I guess ebay believes that the seller’s feedback rating is more important than the buyers which I believe to be true.

Allright, and I agree, but… I am right in saying that from now on, you can expect only 100% positive feedbacks from people who only buy stuff on eBay?

But yeah, I prefer anything than the evil retaliation practices from sellers.