I may be four years too late, but I try. 
With regards the former, I’ve never had trouble from people who have bought from me (except a neutral comment from an idiot who knew a bank holiday would hold up her item, stated that in the feedback, but made it neutral anyway :rolleyes: )
However I usually wait for the seller to leave me feedback first though, I’ve been stung by non delivering sellers who then leave me uncalled for negative feedback when I complain about non-delivery :mad:
Don’t feel bad. I’ll leave you feedback.
Great communication. Fast delivery. Product exactly as advertised. Would deal with again. A+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Whats with all those +++++++ !!! etc in feedback. Just makes me think the person leaving it was a 7 year old.
Does anyone else trust sellers with a few negatives more than 100% positives, if I read the negative and it is clear the buyer was being an idiot and mucking the seller about?
I wouldn’t trust them any more than I’d trust someone with a 100% positive record, but if I was satisfied that the negative feedback came under unusual circumstances I’d still bid. I think I’ve bought about three things off Ebay in the last year, so I’ve got the time and inclination to trawl the feedback and other auctions.
For the record, I leave feedback when I get the item. What could I possibly say about the transaction before that?
You can’t. As a seller, I wouldn’t want you to. As a seller, I want to know you’re happy with your purchase before I leave you feedback. Suppose you pay, I leave feedback on the fact that you paid, and you get the item and are rip-roaring angry about something (real or imagined)? I’ve already left you feedback. You can leave me negative, or do a chargeback, or almost anything, and it gives the impression that it was a good transaction all around.
I don’t hold feedback hostage. As I stated some months back, I like to wait until a buyer lets me know (via feedback OR email - no feedback necessary) that they have received the item and are happy. Then I will leave feedback. I don’t care if they leave feedback or not. BUT if they are unhappy, I want the chance to make things right before feedback is ever left, for me OR them. And then if people forget, or it isn’t important to them, every month or so I go through my ‘old’ transactions and leave generic positive feedbacks, on the assumption that everything must have been okay or they’d have said something by then. But I do wait a month. Sometimes the mails are slow. Sometimes people are out of town and don’t open their package for that long. It happens.
It’s important to me that my buyers are pleased with what they’ve bought. Sometimes they haven’t been. I do returns; I do refunds. All these things are part of the service, and that’s part of what one leaves feedback for, too.
You can’t. As a seller, I wouldn’t want you to. As a seller, I want to know you’re happy with your purchase before I leave you feedback. Suppose you pay, I leave feedback on the fact that you paid, and you get the item and are rip-roaring angry about something (real or imagined)? I’ve already left you feedback. You can leave me negative, or do a chargeback, or almost anything, and it gives the impression that it was a good transaction all around.
I don’t hold feedback hostage. As I stated some months back, I like to wait until a buyer lets me know (via feedback OR email - no feedback necessary) that they have received the item and are happy. Then I will leave feedback. I don’t care if they leave feedback or not. BUT if they are unhappy, I want the chance to make things right before feedback is ever left, for me OR them. And then if people forget, or it isn’t important to them, every month or so I go through my ‘old’ transactions and leave generic positive feedbacks, on the assumption that everything must have been okay or they’d have said something by then. But I do wait a month. Sometimes the mails are slow. Sometimes people are out of town and don’t open their package for that long. It happens.
It’s important to me that my buyers are pleased with what they’ve bought. Sometimes they haven’t been. I do returns; I do refunds. All these things are part of the service, and that’s part of what one leaves feedback for, too.
Dangit, sorry for that double post. I got an error the first time that made me think my post didn’t go through.