No Feedback for you!

[nramemberrick]

Help me understand why, as a Seller, there is reluctance to give a Buyer feedback after they have paid?

As a Seller (not that I sell much) I always give Feedback when my buyer pays. They did their part by paying, so why not give them Positive Feedback?

As a Buyer, I will NOT give Feedback until I get Feedback from the seller. Even if everything is great and deserving of a Positive.

In the last few years, as a buyer I have not received at least 20 - 30 Feedbacks from Sellers. Just trying to understand why.

[movieman630]

They need to check their egos and realize that It's up to them to let the seller know they're satisfied and "END THE TRANSACTION" with feedback stating as such!

[southern*sweet*tea]

Feedback is voluntary.  Nobody has to leave it. 

Here's how I do it:

As a seller, I leave a thank you feedback when I ship.  What happens after that is irrelevant since buyers can only receive positive feedback.

As a buyer, I leave feedback after I receive and inspect the item.  I will NOT leave feedback if the transaction was not that great, but not bad enough  for a neg or a neut.  An example would be receiving a breakable item that was shipped with no packaging. (that happens far too often)

Since seller feedback is about the transaction, receiving the item intact was a positive thing, but receiving it carelessly packaged was a negative thing, but not bad enough to soil the feedback of a seller who may have just been having a bad day, so I do nothing.  Negs are reserved for only the most egregious of events.  On my buying account I've only left four negs ever over a twenty year period, so egregious events don't happen that often.

[steve_stuff]

I copy and paste this in every post about leaving feedback.

We used to leave funny feedback - 'looked-liked-bid-won & paid-what more can a seller want, a tip?' 

We stopped leaving feedback for our buyers the day ebay took away the star rating reports. And we know ebay says the stars aren't used for any ratings but I can't believe that if we started getting only ones for shipping ebay wouldn't 'notice'

With that being said, the real reason for no fb is the boss hates two face buyers - check our replies back in the report days - a buyers would leave glowing feedback and then a one for as described or shipping. Now you can disagree with our description or grading, BUT the shipping cost was shown before you bid/bought - Too high? then don't buy and complain later to mama ebay behind our back with the stars. If you have a problem with our item then tell us - don't call our 'landlord' 

And as our stars still aren't 5/5, people are still 'dinging' them. So no feedback for them.