Thread: Can't Get No Respect,

Call me naive but I believe feedback should be just that feedback on how the transaction went. I shouldn't matter what the buyer/seller does with feedback. You should only leave feedback about how the transaction went from your point of view. If your buying was the item as described? Was it shipped in a timely matter? How was communication from the seller? If your selling, was the payment sent in a timely fashion?

+1 to Birnandos post he took the words straight out of my mouth, and to Maxis.
Ebay feedback is based on trust, and with some 600 positive feedback and not a single negative (all as a buyer), I've had less than a handful bad experiences. Only one needed help from the ebay staff to resort. I've bought anything from guitars to hones, from private sellers and big companies, and in general I feel I get better service on ebay than I do on my local grocery store (which is not bad at all). But of course, when trusting strangers, weird things can happen

Originally Posted by Maxi

My opinion, in every aspect of life, is to treat people how I want to be treated. I'm going to be truthful, but I'm also not going to wait for a seller to give me a rating. I'm just going to do it, because that's how I roll.

This.

current system is horrible.
i sold stone and seller never paid. i waited 15 days then got tired of waiting. realist the item again.
you cannot leave negative feedback to buyers?
Now if you are seller wait for the buyer leave you feedback.
if you are buyer then leave feedback first.
gl

I haven't had any bad sales. So I always do leave feedback. I have forgotten a few times to leave positive feedback. I have gona back a few months later to leave feedback.

To date I've only been an e-bay buyer, though I've got a few things I've been thinking about putting up on e-bay.

As a buyer I always leave feedback once I've received the item. Only then do I know if it is as described, and can comment on the shipping, packing, truthfulness of the seller, etc. No sellers have ever complained that I took too long to leave feedback.

As I've been thinking about selling this thread is rather timely. I don't believe I'd leave feedback until the seller did because that's the only way that I know the transaction is completed and can comment on it. That said, if a seller can't leave negative feedback about a buyer why have buyer feedback at all? That just opens the doors for people to abuse sellers with any number of schemes and extortion because there's no recourse for their behavior. That's a disappointing development.

As a buyer I leave feedback as soon as I receive and inspect the item.

As a seller I leave feedback as soon as I receive payment, ship and add tracking info. I'm just not that worried about my ebay feedback score, nor do I care to waste a single second of my time worrying about people who choose to be petty instead of trying to resolve a problem like an adult. Want to leave me bad feedback without talking to me first? Go right ahead.....I'll still sleep like a baby tonight.

I gave up on leaving feedback a long time ago. I got tired of sellers telling me they would not leave feedback until I did it first. Hey, I did my part. I bid, I paid, and I let you know it arrived. If I find something to be wrong with it, don't leave me negative feedback for telling you so. I also got tired of getting negative feedback only because I left well-deserved neutral or negative feedback. The system was so broken, all the positive feedback is meaningless. I refuse to play along.

ebay's purported reason for limiting seller's ability to leave feedback to positive only was, they say, because of sellers leaving retaliatory negatives. That some sellers did that is undoubtedly true but ebay's solution leaves an unbalanced system. It is quite frustrating to have a non paying bidder and the seller having no recourse. The so called 'non paying bidder strikes', that ebay says they suspend members for, are a joke. I'll believe it when I see it. All they are interested in is making money on both ends of the transaction and collecting paypal fees to boot. Unfortunately it is the only game in town.

Yes, the positive only limit for sellers did nothing to improve the process.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

ebay's purported reason for limiting seller's ability to leave feedback to positive only was, they say, because of sellers leaving retaliatory negatives. That some sellers did that is undoubtedly true but ebay's solution leaves an unbalanced system. It is quite frustrating to have a non paying bidder and the seller having no recourse. The so called 'non paying bidder strikes', that ebay says they suspend members for, are a joke. I'll believe it when I see it. All they are interested in is making money on both ends of the transaction and collecting paypal fees to boot. Unfortunately it is the only game in town.

Looks like they could fix it where if you file a non-paying bidder report you get the right to leave negative feedback. That would cut down on the number of people bidding with no intention of paying. I once had a run in with a woman that had a shopping addiction and she indulged it on Ebay because she knew she couldn't get into trouble for not paying. The worst part was that she wasn't even trying to hide it. If you emailed her a week late and asked for payment she would just say "Sorry about that. I have a shopping problem so I wont be paying." I bet she bid on dozens of auctions everyday with no intention of ever sending a single payment.

Lori