Thread: Is leaving feedback becoming passe?

Originally Posted by RoyalCake

Hart to you mean in the classifieds here or eBay? I've been guilty before on this forums' classifieds from just not remembering, no harm intended. I'd forget on eBay too if I didn't get a reminder.
I've had people remind me to leave feedback and I've done the same. I actually appreciate the reminder cause I just forget.

Ebay. The last half dozen purchases had no feedback.

Yeah there's no excuse for eBay, you get reminders. Maybe they should institute a punishment on your own rating if you don't leave feedback.

Originally Posted by Hart

Ebay. The last half dozen purchases had no feedback.

I will send them a message asking if there is a reason they had not left feedback. I also do not give feedback until they do so for me.
It seems to work well for me

Originally Posted by SS502MC

I will send them a message asking if there is a reason they had not left feedback. I also do not give feedback until they do so for me.
It seems to work well for me

Maybe why, if both of you are waiting for each other :<0)

I only buy (and pay within seconds) and I leave feedback when I get the item. I also send a note to the seller letting them know I got it and thank them. The sellers pay from e-bay can be delayed, from what I understand, due to too much negative. This may also cost more in percentage unless those were old comments I read about the good ole' Bay. I am buying and could care less about the feedback I receive and I also refuse to do business with sellers that hold feedback until they get it.

I have started to look for feedback from sellers before I leave mine. I never leave bad feedback. Wouldn't unless the item was misrepresented and the seller refused to take it back.

If I went into a store to buy something and the cashier said I had to leave positive feedback before he bagged my item, I would leave them holding the item.

After reading this I had to go check my eBay account
I have never sold on eBay but
In 8 years I have never missed giving feed back but have not received from 8 sellers looking at the stats
I wait until I receive the item and if all is good leave my feed back if an issue I can't act the seller via email and work it out.
I have only had 2 issues in this time, 1 was a cracked blade last year that the seller discounted when I informed him so I left the same "AAA+ Easy eBayer" response as I do for all
The other many years ago I had to go to dispute res as the seller only sent me half of my order then denied it so my response was negative and that half order was received refused communication
There is no reason not to leave feed back I believe
I also dis agree with the you must leave pos feed back as a buyer, if I didn't pay or messed a buyer around I would expect the feed back to be true for other sellers as well as buyers

Originally Posted by Hart

Ebay. The last half dozen purchases had no feedback.

From an occasional seller's point of view ....... used to be if the buyer left a neutral or negative the seller could respond in kind. Then, because that feedback policy discouraged buyers from leaving a negative, for fear of reprisal from the seller, ebay changed it to where sellers can only leave positive feedback regardless.

My philosophy has always been that the deal, from the seller's point of view, isn't complete until the buyer expresses satisfaction with the item, either by message or by feedback. At that point I'd leave feedback. I know some feel that if you've paid you've done your part, but to me, when the item is accepted as satisfactory, only then is it a done deal.

As a buyer I used to just leave feedback. After over 100 non reciprocated positives I began checking the person's "feedback left for others" and if it wasn't as many, or more, feedbacks left as received I don't leave feedback initially.

Finally, until I get a positive from a buyer I'm not inclined to leave feedback for fear the buyer will leave a negative/neutral following my positive. In over 300 sales and many more purchases I've never had a negative or a neutral BTW. So I'm paranoid maybe but that is my policy.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

ebay changed it to where sellers can only leave positive feedback regardless.

Never having sold anything I had no idea this was the case. It surprises me so, I have to ask again, if this is indeed the situation, that as a seller you can't leave negative feedback? If so, as a buyer the feeling of being at a feedback standoff, is pointless. When we are satisfied we should give positive feedback regardless of receiving it.

Originally Posted by Hart

Never having sold anything I had no idea this was the case. It surprises me so, I have to ask again, if this is indeed the situation, that as a seller you can't leave negative feedback? If so, as a buyer the feeling of being at a feedback standoff, is pointless. When we are satisfied we should give positive feedback regardless of receiving it.

Yes, that is the case. Ebay sellers can only leave positive feedback or none at all. If the buyer doesn't pay for a certain peiod the seller can open a non-paying bidder case, get his ebay fees back and can relist the item again. I think ebay puts a black mark on the buyer and if it's a pattern they could kick him out, though I suspect it takes a lot getting to that point since ebay wants more buyers bidding to higher prices resulting in higher fees.

I think it's best to simply recognize what that feedback system is and isn't and one wouldn't worry too much about it.

Originally Posted by gugi

Yes, that is the case. Ebay sellers can only leave positive feedback or none at all. If the buyer doesn't pay for a certain peiod the seller can open a non-paying bidder case, get his ebay fees back and can relist the item again. I think ebay puts a black mark on the buyer and if it's a pattern they could kick him out, though I suspect it takes a lot getting to that point since ebay wants more buyers bidding to higher prices resulting in higher fees.

I think it's best to simply recognize what that feedback system is and isn't and one wouldn't worry too much about it.

They will eventually nail people who don't follow the rules.

The feedback system has been engineered now to make sure the maximum # of sales are made, at least the rules around it. So you're right, it's a tool for them to foster sales and not system. It's been tuned up by the marketing department, I guess.

I always provide feedback.
Given I have received one first.
This as I am always the buyer, never a seller.
My job as a buyer, as I see it, is that I need to do one single thing, namely pay promptly.
Once that is done, I expect feedback as swiftly as I did my part of the job.

Furthermore I am a bit more prone to giving neutral and even negative feedback than most it seems.
If shipping is slower than agreed upon, or priced higher, neutral it is.
Same with issues of the product.
Even minor ones.
On occasion I have even declined a full refund just to be able to leave my honest feedback of a seller.
Those incidents gave me a feeling of people trying to sell down or even minimize an actual problem just to close a deal.
That when they should, and most likely did, know the products had issues.

Loosing a few pennies in those instances was well worth it, just to try and perhaps make them be more honest in their presentation of their products in the future..

B, the idealistic socialist