04-14-2012 10:10 AM
I have about nine buyers who did not leave a feedback. I even emailed them and politely reminded them to do so. I take pride in how I wrap the items I ship and I am very descriptive about what I am selling. So I do not understand if this is a regular problem. I leave my feedback immediately for them upon receipt of their funds and my shipping. I even tried delaying my feedback for a few to see if they responded first. I have had not complaints from any of these buyers. What's up??????
07-28-2015 09:00 AM
08-02-2015 06:03 PM
I have recently just given up on leaving feedback as a buyer because I haven't recieved feedback from sellers for about 6 months. It goes both ways.
08-10-2015 11:05 AM
I've left 601 feedback for others and recieved 447 myself. In all honesty its a bit disappointing when you go to the effort of advertising something, packing it up well and not hearing back from someone and showing everyone else that you are a realiable and trustworthy seller!
08-11-2015 12:49 AM
08-13-2015 09:51 AM
I recently sold 14 items and have received feedback for only one! I leave feedback for buyers because they have done their part. It doesn't seem right to play a waiting game of who should go first. But without feedback to let me know the buyer was satisfied with their purchase, I feel like the transaction is somehow not complete. Will they wait for six months and then want to return it under paypal's policy?
I shipped the items quickly (some on the same day as payment, all within two days) and packaged them carefully. I undercharged on shipping for a few items, and actually LOST money on one! So why no feedback or at least an email if there were questions or problems?
I don't want to bother the buyers with reminders, and I don't want to beg for feedback, either!
Maybe no news is good news?
Listing and selling a few things on eBay is fun and a nice way to make a little extra money, but this feedback issue makes me nervous and I'm beginning to wonder if it's worth it. eBay takes 10%, PayPal takes their cut - but the seller is left unprotected.
08-16-2015 12:20 PM
I think what were all doing here as sellers, is pretty much the same. 98% of us try very hard to sell our items honestly and give great service. A few percent of the sellers are dishonest. 70% or so of the buyers care enough to leave the seller feedback, as the rest are not interested in anything more than that great deal. (I do understand that)
A 99 cent item that legitimately costs $10.00 to sell, means that eBay takes about $1.10 for their fee. That would mean that the seller looses 11 cents out of their pocket. Add PayPal into the scene and maybe the seller now owes 61 cents. (Give or take) Let’s forget how much a seller looses for a 99 cent item and free shipping. Were all gambling here as sellers. Like playing a scratch ticket or the lottery.
If I was to loose $300.00 on one particular scratch ticket, I would eventually buy a different one and hope for better results. This is what we need to do. There are many sites out there that do auctions and online stores for free or far less in fees. I am looking into all of these now and sampling them. We as sellers need to find a better venue and leave eBay. But before we leave, we need to let other sellers and buyers know where to go for the better deals.
Grant it that eBay is the largest online auction house for private sellers, but with enough people recommending other sites and fewer sellers on eBay, the buyers will eventually come to those sites. This is the seller’s only way of getting their message through to eBay. I don’t see eBay responding to our gripes…and they won’t till we leave. By then it’s too late. There is Craigslist, atOncer, Atomic Mall, eCrater as well as many more.
Let’s get together and find the best ones. Then we can post our new discoveries here and try to help the other sellers. No, it will not solve the issue of feedback, but the seller won’t be bound and gagged to loosing money and getting no feedback. I will be honest. I only bought a few things before I tried selling, but I always left feedback. As a seller, I realized the effort that they go through to loose $1.10 or make just $3.00.
Lets all stop complaining and actually do something, like leave eBay or use them as a back up only. Now that I have said this….it is possible that my listings will be hidden even further into the black hole of lost listings. But that is sometimes what has to happen to show Goliath what David can do.
Any suggestions on auction sites that are more reasonable, but have few customers at the moment, share them. The customers will come when the good sellers arrive. We can make any site like eBay, as it was the buyers and sellers that made eBay, not eBay itself. it is also the buyers and sellers that can make them fall and make another auction site rise to their level.
Let’s all make this work together; as we are a free country and this is why we live here. Don’t let cooperate greed make us have to sell at higher prices and do what they do. We are all better that that.
Thanks for listening and best of luck to all the buyers and sellers out there and thank you vey much for all my past Kudos!!!! Kudos to you all.
08-26-2015 11:53 AM
I agree. As a new seller, I have sold quite a few items , I leave buyers a positive feedback but feel I shouldn't because they won't do it for me. I check their feedback tabs on their profile to see they left feedback for others, and sure enough they do, but not mine or they are just selective. I do find it sad that as good and honest sellers as there are, we give them good service and leave them positive feedback but while getting money is good, no feedback leaves sellers wondering if there was a problem. All of the sellers I bought from have left positive feedback, so I do it in return. I wish there was a way to remove feedback from those who don't leave any and while their feedback scores undeservingly grows mine is stagnant. However, I did get 5 feedbacks out from buyers who to me are great appreciated. I don't blame the buyers so much, but this whole feedback system doesn't work for me. I like using eBay but
09-03-2015 12:48 PM
I decided as many have long ago, that if ebay wasn't going to allow it's members to leave honest feedback, to rate their transactions as they see fit, it is ebay's site, ultimatly it's their rating system, let ebay leave the FB since they seem to know what everyone should get. So I basically said that I'm washing my hands of the whole thing and having nothing to do with it anymore. Never looked back
09-14-2015 11:27 PM
09-17-2015 06:41 PM
I'm a loooong time eBayer and back in the day would religiously leave feedback. However, when eBay changed their feedback rules I simply don't bother. I'm often on the road and eBay doesn't make it easy enough, which they could if they gave a **bleep**. Last time I left feedback I had to save a special link in my bookmarks because there (still!) is no link to the page where you can leave feedback for ALL the items you won/purchased. Instead I had to leave feedback for one item then eBay would reveal the special 'leave feedback for other items' link. It's stupid and a hassle, and I'm on the road all the time so every minute counts when I'm doing errands in some weird town at the loca library.
If eBay gave a **bleep** about feedback they would do at least two things:
1) Make it dead simple. Make a "Leave Feedback" link in My eBay for both the pop-up list and the main page. Hell, you could easily incorporate it into the Purchased Items page.
2) Have a lottery for people who leave feedback to receive promo codes or free items. This would barely cost eBay anything yet would make the feedback system fun to use.
I'll add 3) add emojis. Just because.
eBay doesn't really care about this stuff, however. They're too busy trying to turn eBay into the next dx.com or alibaba scam site.
10-01-2015 02:21 PM
Great suggestion! THANK YOU!!
10-05-2015 08:12 AM
10-08-2015 12:29 PM
Ebay makes it very hard to leave feedback. It used to be easy and they had to go a screw that process up.
10-10-2015 02:28 PM
I don't leave feedback as a seller until I'm certain that the buyer is not going to make some bogus claim that what they bought was not what I advertised. Too many people trying to game the system. So now ebay is starting to resemble the US Congress. Nobody wants to lift a finger until somebody else makes the first move.
This is bull. I am not a "professional" ebay seller. I sell things that I collect. I sell the things that I collect when they no longer fit into my scheme. This was the original purpose behind ebay in the first place. This whole Buy It Now Marketplace was not what I started with. ebay is not Amazon. Maybe ebay buyers just see me as some non descript Amazon Seller, but that's not the case. I sell things that have instrinsic value to the buyer. The buyers should acknowledge that they recived what they wanted.
It's important to me to know that I satisified somebody's desire.
10-10-2015 02:55 PM
Exactly!