The value in buyer feedback is now in seeing what a buyer left for sellers , especially when considering an offer received. I always check the feedback left by a buyer for sellers and if there are too many negatives or a pattern of them saying that the seller was good and worked with them, I consider very carefully whether to sell to them. In addition, I do not like buyers with private feedback but will sell to them sometimes. Those are a gut thing based on over 15 years selling here. As far as leaving feedback for buyers, I don't unless they request it. Once Ebay stopped allowing anything buy positive feedback for buyers it became worthless so I don't leave it. If Ebay was to implement a fairer feedback notification system to help sellers, I would consider leaving feedback again.
Here is an example of something Ebay could do to help sellers at least with considering offers. If a buyer has returned items, those could be noted with an orange doughnut. It would not assign why the item was returned or place responsibility for the return, but it would enable sellers to see if there was an excessive pattern of returns which could help sellers in making a decision as to whether to accept an offer. It might also help to reduce nuisance returns as buyers would realize that the number of returns that they have are visible to sellers.
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