Why the fuck won't anyone leave me feedback on Ebay?

The BBQ Pit
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Is it THAT fucking hard to go type a line about my fast payment or my good packaging? I rarely use Ebay. Infact, I only use it when I have stuff I don’t need anymore, like old video cards, pocket pcs, etc… It is not a business for me. So when I DO sell something or buy something on there I need the goddamn feedback. I have had my Ebay account for 3 years or so and I only have 10 fucking feedbacks!! I have participated in around 30 auctions or so since I opened it. I have sold laptops, palm pilots, and a few other big ticket items that I don’t get fucking feedback on!! It’s aggravating. I always get feedback on the dumb shit I sell or buy. Never on the big shit.

I need to stop leaving feedback so fast and wait for the other party to do it first.

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Do you ask for it? I outright ask for it and indicate that I will leave positive feedback as well. I just say something along the lines of “If you’ve been happy with blah blah blah, please leave positive feedback and I will do so as well.”

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I never leave feedback when I buy something from ebay. To me it is a pain to go back. I don’t care if people leave it for me either. I guess if I were selling rather then buying it would be more important to me.

Sorry.

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Kid has a point. A friend of mine had your same problem and does E-Bay business as a way of life. He started asking outright both when sending the bill and including a note with the product. He’s probably get responses from 90% or more of his clients now.

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I always forget to leave feedback for people, so I consider it a favor when they drop me a line and ask me if I’d mind doing so. If you leave feedback for them, email them and tell them so, asking if they’d reciprocate. Many of them would respond, I think, and it can’t hurt.
Best,
karol

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I always leave feedback. So if you want some guaranteed, perhaps you’ve got a 1998 Kansas City Royals yearbook you’d like to post for auction? I need that to complete my collection, so I will go all-out to buy it from you, and leave you feedback as soon as I get it.

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What I hate is sellers who will wait until you post your feedback first. Look, I paid for the item within minutes of the auction closing and you should post the feedback NOW as I have already (and promptly) done my thing. But they wait for your positive feedback first. They try to hold you hostage with the feedback thing. I refuse to play that game and so neither I or the seller get feedback. Screw them.

So yeah, I have a low feedback count. And I don’t care.

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I always leave feedback, but don’t always get it in return. Some people just don’t leave it. Now that mine is over 50, it doesn’t bother me anymore.

Maybe the people you’ve sold to had a problem and choose to just not say anything?

As a buyer, sometimes I’d rather buy from someone with lower feedback because a lot of times the people with the mega-thousand feedback act like their too busy to give any one buyer personal attention. And those are usually the sellers who neglect to leave feedback.

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eBay has a thing now that makes it very easy to leave feedback. You go to your “My eBay” page, and there’s a tab called “feedback”. It’ll let you leave feedback “in bulk”, so to speak. It’ll automatically find all the auctions you haven’t left feedback for and line 'em up so that you can check 'em off, one by one.

I’ve been using this. I used to be pretty slow about leaving feedback (I’d do it eventually, all at once) but this new feature makes it SO much easier.

And I don’t get all worked up if I don’t get feedback from each person. That’s bound to happen sometimes.

I sometimes get polite reminders to leave feedback (often when the seller leaves me feedback, or has shipped off my item). This is perfectly appropriate, IMO.

However, a few months ago I got some anal-retentive psycho. He got deeply offended because I did not reply to an email I never got (EarthLink glitch). I apologized for the glitch, but put him in my “anal-retentive psycho—ignore ignore ignore” category. So I didn’t leave him feedback. He’s a psycho.

He kept on pestering me about the feedback. These bizarre, scary emails about how he had tried to be so “reasonable” with me, and how he was so “patient” with me, and reminding me, “On such and such a date, I sent you this email, politely requesting that you leave feedback. And then on such and such a date, I sent you this email…” and so on. What a FREAK!

It wasn’t just the barely-hanging-onto-his-sanity undercurrents of the emails, it was that he COULD NOT LET IT GO. My gosh, it’s just a freakin’ feedback. I checked his feedback, he had several hundred of them, if memory serves. I could not fathom why one more or less was making such a big impact on his life that he was stewing about it so much.

I finally left him feedback, just to SHUT HIM UP. And I told him that if he ever emailed me again, I’d report him to eBay. What a nut.

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Nobody’s ever left me feedback on Amazon either. I had a hard time figuring out how to leave feedback on my sellers because I was having a Slow Brain Day, but I did finally rate one person. They never rated me though. Feh.

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Well, buy something from me, sweetie, and I promise to leave you feedback. I leave feedback for all my bidders, and for anyone I purchase from. My policy on buyers is that I leave the feedback on the day I ship the item, that way I can post “Your artwork was shipped/on the way,” or whatever, and it bumps them up a number and saves me from having to write a “I mailed your things” e-mail.

I’ve never left feedback on Amazon because I don’t use the site that often and I couldn’t figure it out.

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As a seller I once included a note to my buyer with the item stating that I would leave him positive feedback if he did the same and he sent me a BLISTERING email that I would dare to say such a thing. Only reason I did it was because someone had done the same to me when I was the buyer and I didn’t think twice about it.

What pisses me off is when the seller has ratings in the thousands and doesn’t leave feedback for me. Hello, Power Seller, how do you think you got that rating without thousands of people doing for you what you refuse to do for me? I’ve had a couple of times where I’ve bought an item from a seller with a lower number of feedbacks on the theory that they are more likely to reciprocate. So to sellers, you may be costing yourself money if you don’t leave feedback.

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I think a lot of sellers just get lazy. I’ve also written to sellers when they haven’t left feedback, usually when I write them to let them know the item arrived safely. I’ll ask if they had a problem cashing the money order or if my payment had not arrived in a timely fashion. Some of them never responded, one wrote back telling me he only left feedback on Sunday, and some apologize. It doesn’t seem to hurt to ask, though. Most sellers I’ve dealt with will leave feedback after they have received my payment and the ones who wait until I leave it first can keep on waiting.

Sellers like jin are the ones I remember as someone I would buy from again. I mostly buy books and sticking with sellers who stock things I enjoy and leave feedback isn’t something I can always do, but I’m more likely to spend a few dollars more on an item from a seller I know, rather than someone I haven’t dealt with before for this reason.

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I am glad I am not the only one who feels this way about it.
IMO after the seller gets payment they should leave feedback.
If they got the payment in a timely manner, leave a positive, if they didn’t get a payment, or have had issues with communication, a negative feedback.

My feedback is at 27-- I have had several sellers not leave me feedback.

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After I got screwed by a seller who left me negative feedback in retaliation for mine (he called me rude and stupid and was easily the most irrational person I’ve ever dealt with by email), I won’t ever leave it again before the seller does. I always pay my auctions promptly, within minutes of the auction end if I’m watching it. I still won’t hesitate to leave negative feedback, but a seller who screwed up and knows it is less likely to ever post feedback before the buyer out of fear of posting positive and receiving negative.

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Are you sure your not doing something wrong? I’ve had at least 50% of my buyers leave feedback without me asking them.

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ebay should have a policy of prohibiting or at least discouraging trading feedbacks but their policy is pretty much that they do not get involved with feedback as it is not considered part of the transaction:

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Wow. I came to the Pit to bitch about this again and figured I would do a search to see if anyone has done one lately and I find that I created a thread 3 years ago on the EXACT same subject I’m going to bitch about today. Eerie…

Anyway, on with the show.

So, I purchased 12 different items from 12 different people all in one week in early January. (Bunch of Hulk stuff). I paid for those items immediately following the closing of the auctions. After a few weeks I sent friendly reminders to the sellers that I left them feedback when the items arrived and I would appreciate the same.

I’ve recieved 3 feedbacks.

All of the people I bought from had 1000+ ratings. :rolleyes:

I currently have a feedback rating of 28. Twenty fucking Eight after 5 years or so on ebay. I’ve probably participated in 100-125 auctions in that time and only 28 people felt that it was important to leave feedback.

Seller power in the feedback system is WAY too high. This mentality of not posting feedback until the buyer does is horseshit. This is so they can post retalitory feedback if they recieve neg I take it?

Here is what needs to happen to fix this problem:

When you choose “Pay for Item Now” thru ebay when the auction ends, and you use Paypal to pay within some reasonable amount of time (set by the seller), the system should AUTOMATICALLY generate a positive feedback on your account stating the the item was paid for in full within “X” number of days after auction closes.

That should be the extent of “seller feedback”. If I pay for an item the minute I win it I should be guarunteed + feedback and shouldn’t have to play these fucking games with sellers. The only person in the party that should have user entered feedback should be the seller because once they have the money it’s all up to them if they are gonna fuck it up or not or be dicks or send shitty stuff.

I got an email from a fucker that said “My system leaves feedback automatically when it recieves it” WTF? If I buy from you and pay immediately you are going to strongarm me into leaving you feedback? Fucking waste.

Anway, see you in 3 more years when I come back to bitch about the same thing and my feedback rating is around 40.

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I think people don’t like you. Really. Not joking.

If all 25 or so of my transactions in the last year with my new eBay username have gotten me 25 feedbacks, why don’t you even have something approaching 50% on feedback?

Sam

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I’m an occasional buyer, never a seller, and I almost always pay via PayPal within a couple of hours after I win an auction. Lately I’ve been getting the “I’ll leave you feedback after you leave me feedback.” This truly pisses me off. If you the seller want to play it that way, then say nothing – just do it, and I probably won’t notice the delay. But your snarky blackmail angers me. From now on, when a seller gives me that crap, I’m not going to leave feedback (unless there’s reason to leave negative feedback). As a buyer, I don’t need feedback – I win an auction, I pay, and you’re obligated to ship. Screw you and your stupid unethical games.