From The Past: July 22, 2005
When you buy or sell something on eBay you are supposed to leave feedback so other buyers and sellers can know what type of person they are dealing with. The feedback is either: positive, negative, or neutral.
As a buyer, I believe the seller should leave feedback first. After all, I have paid for the item very quickly and in full. The seller should have no reason not to leave me feedback first. That is, unless they are afraid of negative comments.
Most recently Kevin bought Star Trek: The Next Generation season 6 and I bought Coal Miner’s Daughter. We bought these at different times and from different sellers. I paid the day the auctions ended or the next morning.
Neither of these sellers has posted feedback for me, so I refuse to do it for them either. Actually, they never even sent me an email asking whether I had received the goods or not. These are high sellers (in the thousands), so I guess they could care less. I realize I am only hurting myself by not leaving them feedback because if I did so, they would do the same for me, but that’s not the point.
The point is they are afraid someone will leave negative feedback, so they wait to see what the buyer has to say first so they can then comment appropriately. There is nothing I can do about sellers like this other than what I am already doing. Incidentally, I would have given them both positive feedback, so they missed out.
I’ve sold on eBay for years and I use to leave feedback immediately when someone paid me until I had certain buyers who wasn’t pleased with anything and would complain even if I shipped it out the day they bought it, it wasn’t fast enough. So I now wait until I’ve received feedback first. It’s not because I did anything wrong, it’s just certain people will find fault in every thing you do no matter how hard you try. I’m happy to say I’ve been selling on eBay since 2007 and I have 100% positive feedback. I buy a lot too so I see your point but I do understand the sellers view too, some people are just negative and aren’t happy with anything and they enjoy leaving negative feedbacks even when you don’t deserve it.
Thank you so much for your reply. As you know, I wrote that in 2005. It’s funny because I JUST received something from eBay TODAY and I tried to leave (positive) feedback and it said I had to wait 7 days.
EBay is always changing the way they do things seems like. I don’t know what I’d do without eBay though , I love finding things on there from my childhood like old toys, Christmas decorations, etc. I’m so glad we have a place where we can find stuff from years ago. The memories it brings me just looking at the stuff makes me so happy. 😊