Thread: Weird trend on e-bay

Something weird happened with two items that I recently bought: Both sellers gave me a positive UPON PAYMENT I remember before you had to give them a positive first and then beg for your cookie until they finally had mercy on your poor soul and gave you that positive. Is this just a freak occurrence or the e-bay sellers suddenly went honest?

I've had a couple of positives immediately after payment. Cool.

Gary

I think it completely depends on how cool the seller is. Whenever I sell something, as soon as payment is received I figure the buyer has fulfilled his end of the transaction and leave positive payment. Seems many other sellers are a bit more tightfisted with the feedback, which I don't understand at all.

Before this, I only had two. Suddenly 2 in a row were automatic. The seller tea-for-two (that lot of Bokers, one Genco and 2 no names) had this set up with an automated system and derby-exclusive (DE blades for my friend's dad) seems to have done this as soon as he/she looked into the affairs. I was using this opportunity to point'em out as I appreciate an honest seller.

I agree. It depends on the seller. I believe that most are afraid that someone will leave negative feedback after a positive feedback has been left. As far as I am concerned, a seller owes me positive feedback as soon as I pay in a timely manner. Up til now, there is only one seller I have not left feedback for. I purchased some DE blades that are supposedly Israeli Personna blades from them. I'm still trying to verify where they are manufactured, to the point I have contacted the company and sent them blades to be anyalyzed. I never left feedback, and neither did the seller.

RT

There was one case where the item didn't function as advertised. As the seller had feedback going into the thousands, I kept my mouth shut and swallowed the loss. Now that my feedback broke the 20 mark, I'd be less willing to let such BS slide, b/c now they can see the praises from 22 other sellers.

I've had a few sellers that were honest like that as well. Not too many though.

I got possitive right after payment from all except a guy that I bought a Shavette copy from, with a booklet called Barber Shave Instructions. I gave him possitive after receiving the stuff but to this day he hasn't given feedback even though I wrote him and asked for it.
He says in the book that one should not try to shave oneself with a straight
So I guess all of us got it wrong
I'm thinking like FiReSTaRT did. With less than 10 feedbacks one doesn't want to get a negative.

Mats

I guess I have never understood the whole buyer feedback thing. If you offer something for sale you are taking money. If you get your price paid you ship and it was positive from your point of view. This is how it is supposed to work. Why do we expect praise or why does anyone value the praise we have recieved for it? What difference does it make?

I've gotten immediate positive feedback a couple of times recently as well, though it was from sellers i had used before.