I’m at 112 transactions over 3 years with 100% perfect feedback. This is such a lightweight thing to be proud of but I am. How much does your feedback matter to you.
My feedback matters ALOT to me. I beam with happiness when I get another feedback. Of course all I do is buy on eBay and I can’t do that often because I don’t have much money. But my feed back is at 100% and I’ve been with eBay for 4 years. My transactions? mumbles [sub] Twenty-three[/sub]
i love getting feedback…i only have 17 unique transactions but it feels good to do good business.
I, too, have a 100% positive feedback. I wished that everyone would leave feedback for me when I do it for them, though.
When looking at other’s feedback, I never read the positive because it’s always the same. It’s the negative and how they handle it that’s important.
you are right mr blue sky, reading the negatives is vastly more interesting than reading the positives.
there was one seller who had tons of negatives and he would fight back in the feedback replies, insulting his customers!
Mine’s 100%; I believe I have something like 27 unique transactions? Anyhow, I consider it more par for the couse because I’m a good seller and buyer. I wouldn’t expect anything but 100% positive, especially since I don’t trade often enough to come up with a really bizarre fluke-turned-neg.
I’ve known some people who would rather put up with a scam than deal with the threat of a single neg. . . can’t say I relate to that!
It matters quite a bit to me; I have a rating of 160 (186 positives from 160 unique users) and one neutral from ages back (I refunded his money - which I’d have done if he’d simply emailed me with his problem).
I have 392 positives from 288 unique users and only 1 neutral, which puts me at 100% positive feedback. Every time I look at my feedback that neutral pisses the hell out of me since it was left because the buyer didn’t read my auction description properly and didn’t contact me about her displeasure. I’m particularly proud of my positives since most are for selling, and I leave feedback once payment has been received. I see some sellers with great feedback ratings, but who say that they leave a positive for a positive or a negative for a negative, and I wonder how many people were too afraid to leave them bad feedback.
I love my positive feedback. I’m at 36 transactions and all are positive.
I do believe that feedback can be abused though. Some sellers will not leave anything until the buyer leaves their feedback. I think this is baloney. If I end Joe’s auction and send him the money, then I believe he should say “Jim is a great Ebayer blah blah blah” as soon as he gets paid. I refused to leave first feedback for one seller. He kept e-mailing me telling me I need to do my part. He FINALLY left “OK Ebayer” for me. That jerk!
I bought a model car from one guy. I had forgotten about it and about 6 weeks after the auction, I e-mailed the guy, asking if he could check with the shipper on my package. He said he would send it when I paid him. He was pretty darn rude about it too. I left a negative for him saying “Dude, Where’s my car? Paid for it 6 weeks ago” I gave him proof that it was paid for and he sent it without apoligizing for his rudeness. A-hole.
Don’t be afraid to tell it like it is!
I’ve got about a dozen transactions over the past three years and they’re all positive. I agree about not bothering to read positive feedback; it’s all the same.
A wonderful feature would be to be able to view only negative or neutral feedback entries on a seller. That way you don’t have to hunt through all the pages of praise for a really active seller to find the 3 or 4 negs and read them.
Me too; chiefly because I can then use the feedback forum thing to keep track of who hasn’t yet paid.
I guess it matters to me quite a bit. I would feel bad if I had failed somebody as I’m really a boy scout kinda guy. 9 for 9 in the 4 years I’ve been active.
My current rating is 416, 415 positive and 1 neutral. The neutral was because I would not accept a check from the buyer even though is big red letters at the the bottom of the ad were the words “NO CHECKS”. I have received 2 negative feedbacks but eBay removed them for me. One was from a person who would not pay to ship back an item she bought even though I told her I would reimburse the shipping charges.
The second negative was from an idiot that wanted a $2.20 refund on the shipping and handling charges. I charged him $6 for S&H, I paid $3.80 to ship the item and he wanted the difference back. I explained to him that the box, bubble wrap, tape and other items cost me money and that he should also pay for that too. He disagreed and left the negative feedback. He continued with nasty emails and threats to sue. It took a letter from the law firm of Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe to get him to stop. I don’t think he caught the joke.