I always leave feedback as a buyer.
Are sellers supposed to leave feedback as well?

Feedback has always been voluntary . Never a requirement .

http://ocs.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Cu ... g=feedback

Thanks
Didnt know if i should bother giving FB any more as I dont get any as a buyer.

Tim

Some sellers hold back leaving feedback until the buyer has left it first. I don't agree with that idea, but that may be what you are running into. In my experience, everybody I've ever bought from on Ebay left me feedback but only about 2/3rds of the buyers ever bothered.

As a buyer I leave a feedback for every purchase. As a seller I leave feedback after a feedback is left for me. I do this for 2 reasons
1. No news is good news
2. eBay rules are setup for buyers not sellers. If a buyer send back their purchase and instead of the item they sends a brick. Your can not leave a negative for buyers. Your only recourse is to leave a positive and warn other buyers not to deal with the person. Every item I sell on eBay I look over the buyers feedback left for them and what they have left for others.

If the feedback system was a 2 way street like the old days sellers would not be holding back on leaving feedback to there buyers.

As a buyer, I always leave + F/B for sellers who deliver promptly and as advertised, which comprises prolly 99% of those that I have dealt with.

Some of them, however, don't bother to leave me F/B.

I used to message them and ask if there was anything wrong with the payment I sent, since I hadn't received F/B, but I really don't bother with that anymore.

As a seller, I will wait to see a F/B hit from the buyer, before leaving one.

I have always wondered about this. In my opinion as a buyer ,once you have sent payment ,you have done your job. So why does the seller wait till I give feedback as a buyer? I am not going to leave feedback till I receive the item and inspect it for damage and see if it is as advertised by the seller. But I always leave feedback if the seller leaves feedback which happens about 75% of the time. Explain why I am wrong to expect the seller to leave me feedback if I have paid for the item.

Frank

Because, just as you wait to inspect the item to determine whether the seller is a crook, the seller is waiting for your response upon receiving the item, to see whether you're a crook.

Clearly, you personally are not a crook, but there are a number of buyers on ebay who are. I used to leave +ve feedback upon receiving payment, but now I wait to see what, if anything, crawls out of the woodwork.

[quote="francois8890"]I have always wondered about this. In my opinion as a buyer ,once you have sent payment ,you have done your job. So why does the seller wait till I give feedback as a buyer? I am not going to leave feedback till I receive the item and inspect it for damage and see if it is as advertised by the seller. But I always leave feedback if the seller leaves feedback which happens about 75% of the time. Explain why I am wrong to expect the seller to leave me feedback if I have paid for the item.


+1

Withholding F/B as a seller until one is certain that the buyer acknowledges receiving the goods, is happy with them, is not going to try for a partial or complete refund or any other shenanigans, is simply a business model that I use.

Once he or she leaves a F/B hit, I am happy to reciprocate.

There is also the psychological aspect where they just might not be so quick to leave a negative if they are unhappy, without contacting the seller first.

As a buyer only I have always left feed back after the item arrives, mostly so other buyers know if this person is good to buy from. I left negitive feed back once and that was bad but the seller and I just agreed to disagree and it was over. Thank god that was the only bad item I have gotten. If I would have to leave negitive again I would put " Item arrived thank you" and nothing else. IMHO I really appreciate it when people leave feed back so I can check out seller I have not boughten from in the past!!

Lynn

The site grammar Nazi is gonna getcha!

bought·en (bôtn) Chiefly Northern U.S.
v.
A past participle of buy.
adj.
1. Commercially made; purchased, as opposed to homemade: boughten bread.
2. Artificial; false. Used of teeth.
Regional Note: American regional dialects allow freer adjectival use of certain past participles of verbs than does Standard English. Time-honored examples are boughten (chiefly Northern U.S.) and bought (chiefly Southern U.S.) to mean "purchased rather than homemade": a boughten dress, bought bread. The Northern form boughten (as in store boughten) features the participial ending -en, added to bought, the participial form, probably by analogy with more common participial adjectives such as frozen. Another development, analogous to homemade, is evident in bought-made, cited in DARE from a Texas informant.

I thought Lynn was from bOstn.
Lol

Thanks for the Feedback feedback!

Tim

I am in Minnesota and of german decent. I my home and taught by my dad boughten is ok to use! I am sure I could have reworded it but since there is no spell check on this forum (that I have found) to tell me it is wrong, you get what i was taught!!!

As for the grammer Nazi-I am far from perfect and if you want to correct my grammer do it via PM.

Lynn

From John Prine's Souvenirs


Memories they can't be boughten
They can't be won at carnivals for free
Well it took me years
To get those souvenirs
And I don't know how they slipped away from me