Missing Feedback from Lazy Buyers

[snk-guru]

Do you think it would be fair if eBay automatically gives you a positive feedback rating if the buyer fails to leave the seller feedback after the cutoff period? I should be well over 5000 feedback but buyers just don't leave feedback sometimes and it's frustrating, are sellers supposed to beg buyers to leave feedback?

I feel like if I leave positive feedback for the buyer, if they fail to leave me any feedback by the cutoff that eBay should be giving me automatic positive feedback for that transaction. 

Anyone else feel this way? Are people being lazy or is it just irritating leaving a seller feedback?

[kensgiftshop]

@snk-guru 

What could you do with more then 5000 feedback that you can't do now?

[annadryl]

This is going to be a long one...

[nocoolnamejane]

Feedback is, always has been and always will be voluntary.

Now many buyers follow the “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything” rule when it comes to feedback: Transaction wasn’t perfect, but nothing to write home about. Now if no feedback meant automatic positive after a while, maybe some buyers would say what they think, with a grey or red donut.

[downunder-61]

Feedback is voluntary as it should be.

I would be grateful, perhaps a buyer was not that impressed with an item, or shipping time and not leaving feedback was their way of ''responding'' rather than giving a neut or a neg.

If eBay ever took it upon themselves to issue a positive to a buyer or seller without my permission I would never use the platform again.

[chapeau-noir]

Buying online is not a huge deal anymore - internet wide maybe 1/3 of people leave feedback. 

Mercari leaves me a positive if the buyer leaves no FB - doesn't bother me, it's to release my funds.

[inhawaii]

Since feedback is voluntary and not required  it's not "missing".

[gosimus]

@snk-guru 

< I should be well over 5000 feedback >    

You are over 5,000 already.  Your feedback page says "5,531 Feedback received".  The reason you don't see that number alongside your name, is that when a member gives you multiple feedbacks for transactions that occurred within the same week, no matter how many there are they count as only one.  

Your automatic feedback idea is not good.  Some people who are not completely satisfied, but not so bad that they would give you a negative feedback, will simply leave none at all.  However, if they knew that their inaction would result in your receiving an automatic positive, that might spur them to go ahead and leave you that negative. 

[luckythewinner]

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Do you think it would be fair if eBay automatically gives you a positive feedback rating if the buyer fails to leave the seller feedback after the cutoff period?

No, it would not be fair for eBay to create fake feedback and pretend it is feedback. Because fake feedback is not really feedback, would it?

I should be well over 5000 feedback but buyers just don't leave feedback

Feedback is voluntary and your buyers chose not to leave feedback. So what you have is exactly what you "should" have. 

are sellers supposed to beg buyers to leave feedback?

No, because feedback is voluntary. 

Are people being lazy

No, because feedback is voluntary. 

or is it just irritating leaving a seller feedback?

Buyers have absolutely no incentive to leave feedback. 

Just curious - what benefit do you think having 5000 feedback would give you that your current 4677 feedback does not?  

[mam98031]

@snk-guru 

For Ebay to assume what they buyer meant to leave in FB and what they meant to say is way too presumptuous.  As a buyer I would strongly object to such a practice.  I may not have left FB because I had nothing good to say, but didn't want to leave a negative FB, so I opt'd to just not leave a FB for the seller.

As others have told you, feedback is a voluntary system.  If Ebay started leaving FB for buyers when they didn't for whatever reason they have, that tells them that FB is not voluntary.  If you don't leave it we will do it for you and assume what you wanted to say.  That would definitely blow up in our faces for sure.  I would venture a guess while we might see more and more buyers leaving FB for sellers, the neutrals and negatives would be much more common because the buyers are feeling forced.

If you are only missing a few hundred FB from buyers over the time you have sold, you are doing much better than many other sellers.  For me, I have less than 25% of my buyers leaving FB.

With all that said, more FB on your account isn't going to gain you anything.  It isn't going to provide you with some benefit you currently don't get.  It simply won't do a thing for you except maybe make you feel better.

[dnasilver]

Better that the "lazy buyers" who support you, pay and don't complain than not buying at all. Goodwill is an important part of any business and calling those who buy from you lazy does not help your cause.

[annadryl]

Yeah, I'd rather just get the sales. They've dropped off a lot lately. I'd rather have the income than a pat on the back.

The buyers that I do still have are great, but it's the financial aspect that I can take to the bank, not the feedback number or percentage which BTW is archaic and means little now.

[1tuna]

your feedback is better than mine and I have like  40,000  I have given maybe

its not going to help either one of us at all

many buyers buy from sellers with bad feedback so it does not matter the number or the red donuts

@snk-guru 

[maidenru_40]

I’ll have people. Beg me. “I’m poor” (yeah I’m poor too dude) “Please can you take my best offer”. They can message me multiple times a day. To try to haggle with me. Then once they receive the item. Never to be heard from again. LOLLL 

I always ship same day. Or the next morning. I take pride in how I pack my items … it just goes to show you the morals people have now. 

[maidenru_40]

eBay basically does leave feedback for the buyers LMAO.  The only feedback they’re allowed to receive is positive.