I'm not surprised at the responses. I expected them and now I'll comment on them.
"Many sellers have jobs and families"
I don't care. They are making money off my purchase or, at least, should be. If they can't pay attention to business they shouldn't be in business.
"I once had a buyer email me seven times in two hours. She wasn't unhappy about her purchase, she had a question about buying more, but she was upset that I didn't answer her right away. I was sleeping. She was in a different time zone"
Amusing but irrelevant.
"Your seller has 1,136,375 feedback over 16,000 in the last month That explains why they didn't answer your question quick enough and also proves you failed to effectively 'get their attention'."
That might be true.
"So it wasn't a small seller, it was a big busy one."
Wasn't too busy to take my money.
"I just hope that if the seller replies with a good reason for why they didn't reply, that you are willing to revise your feedback for them."
I absolutely WILL revise my feedback if that happens.
"Now.. feedback, not only does it "warn" buyers who is 'bad' or 'good' (as per your opening post) it should also showcase, in advance which sellers buyers should select before bidding....if they want, well.. . special attention"
I don't "bid", I "buy." That means I put my money up front for what I purchase. Is that concept foreign to you? I expect my purchase to arrive on time or give me a reason why it didn't. If you call that "special attention" you're an idiot.
"I never buy from big sellers like that because customer service generally stinks."
Yeah, I'm figuring that out and won't make the same mistake again.
"You sir are an absolute horses backside. Thank you for posting and showing millions of sellers you use feedback as a weapon when you can't get a seller who wants to be your penpal"
Another idiot heard from.
"Assuming about a 55% feedback rate, the seller sold almost 2 million items in the last 4.5 years. That's an average of 1,200 items per day."
Then he needs to hire enough people to handle inquiries about delivery problems. Otherwise, he can go out of business for all I care.
"Why would a seller deserve negative feedback because they didn't answer your email as quickly as YOU thought they should?"
Because I'm the only opinion that counts to me.
"And for the record I don't always respond to buyer's emails that want six more photos, want to buy one item out of a lot, or make a ridiculous offer."
That's not what's happening here. So please try to control your irrelevant outbursts.
"Did you get tracking? Go online and find if it was a postal delay?"
Yes, I got tracking and, yes, it's a postal delay, but that's not my issue.
"Another bad buyer heard from ..."
Another idiot heard from.
"Just out of idle curiosity, why did you purchase from that particular seller? They 1800+ negatives they'd received in the past 12 months at the time you made your purchase didn't signify anything to you, or give you any kind of clue as to what might happen, given that many of them seem to be similar to yours?"
Excellent point and you get the prize for the most constructive comment yet. Well, I didn't go any further than seeing a 99.4% positive feedback rating. But I did go further after reading your comment and, you're right, had I read all that first I wouldn't have ordered from that seller and I certainly won't order from him again.
"After all the sellers read this, emails not answered fast enough, may not be the problem."
My guess is that you are implying that hundreds, maybe thousands of sellers will put me on a blocked buyers list. That's asinine to imply it and childish of anyone who does. There are plenty of sellers to choose from. If there are some that don't want my money, atsa fine, boss.
One more thing. I had a similar occurrence during the winter. When I emailed the seller he responded within a couple of hours. We figured the winter storms delayed the shipping and he was willing to send me a replacement if I didn't receive the item in a couple of days. Well, I did receive the item in a couple of days and he got a five star positive feedback because of his excellent customer service.
You people make it seem like that's an exception rather than the rule and I shouldn't come to expect that kind of customer service on eBay. Is that what you are telling me? (See, I can make idiotic statements as well as anybody. LOL.)
