Thread: Is leaving feedback becoming passe?

The last few purchases I've made did not receive feedback. I always wait until I receive an item and feedback before giving any, but it's just not happening lately. Is it just an odd run or are things changing?

I've left over 100 to folks who didn't reciprocate. Most do but some aren't wired that way.

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.

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.

I have the same problem on the bay. People just don't leave feedback. I sure would like to know if they are satisfied with the razors I sell.

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 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.

Yep it's pretty annoying when someone doesn't leave feedback, I have my own policy on this and I've been buying and selling with an Ebay account and using Paypal since 2004 with 100% feedback, my policy is as a seller if you make a purchase and a instant payment to me I leave you instant positive feedback, but whenever I make a purchase I expect the same from the seller, we all have no control over the postal service so I always use signed for then, If the seller doesn't leave me feedback first even if the item arrives and everything is OK I will not leave them feedback, this should be one of Ebay policies to explain to sellers it's your duty to leave feedback first If they have received an instant payment.