Procedure of leaving feedback ?

Iron Patch · Apr 3, 2014

Joe777Cool said:
As a buyer, I wont leave one until I have gotten one, and I doubt Im the only one who thinks this way. So the question is - who needs the positive feedback more, the buyer or the seller?

As a seller I leave it as soon as I receive payment. If there is a problem later I can always add a follow up comment. I want all the positives I can get and will give no reason NOT to leave positive feedback.

A sellers feedback has gone from meaningful to more a courtesy, and I think everyone on here will agree to that because it gets cried about at least once a week. And because of that, it being a courtesy, the buyer will often check if a seller acknowledged them, and if not, they won't leave feedback. Of course this only hurts the seller because a buyer always stays at 100%,

PS: Ebay should make things like non paying and other stuff affect a buyers %, and then give sellers the ability to block people who fall under a certain %. But I guess with ebay being more concerned about losing buyers than sellers we won't see it happen.

MUD(S.W.A.T) · Apr 3, 2014

Iron Patch said:
A sellers feedback has gone from meaningful to more a courtesy, and I think everyone on here will agree to that because it gets cried about at least once a week. And because of that, it being a courtesy, the buyer will often check if a seller acknowledged them, and if not, they won't leave feedback. Of course this only hurts the seller because a buyer always stays at 100%,

PS: Ebay should make things like non paying and other stuff affect a buyers %, and then give sellers the ability to block people who fall under a certain %. But I guess with ebay being more concerned about losing buyers than sellers we won't see it happen.

I don't see how you get any emotion from my text with improper grammar . :icon_scratch:

I'm not "emotional" I'm simply providing topics for these forums and curious what the procedure is. :dontknow:

Please stop assuming people are emotional, LOL :laughing7:

or you will go nuts... :tongue3:

You have good points and I appreciate them but you don't need to question peoples motives and insult us about them..... (no ones crying bro) :thumbsup:

Thanks for replying !!

Keep @ it and HH !! :hello2:

cyberdan · Apr 3, 2014

I only leave feedback first if I am a buyer, and I always leave f/b as a buyer.

Now as a seller I only leave it after the buyer leaves his first. I have had 1037 sales with ebay and only 581 f/b has been left. Only one was a neg and he couldn't even type it out in good English. That one will dissappear in two weeks.

Iron Patch · Apr 3, 2014

MUD(S.W.A.T) said:
I don't see how you get any emotion from my text with improper grammar . I'm not "emotional" I'm simply providing topics for these forums and curious what the procedure is. Please stop assuming people are emotional, LOL or you will go nuts... You have good points and I appreciate them but you don't need to question peoples motives and insult us about them..... (no ones crying bro) Thanks for replying !!

Keep @ it and HH !!

What I mean by emotional is not where your head is while writing the post, it's the over-thinking the feedback process and playing this mind game with yourself.... when the logical thing to do is to just leave positive when you're paid, because it only hurts you not to. Obviously I'm only writing this for the sake of debating the point, because how someone else handles their ebay sales is about the last thing I really care about. I'm apparently not getting through, or you still disagree, so I will leave it at that. This in a way reminds me of the odd seller who insists on me paying about $12 registered mail for something I bought under $5. I usually can't figure out if they're playing stupid, or just do not get my point that it's insane to pay the mail $12 just to make sure I'm not going to rip the guy off for five bucks! Some actually make me pay the full amount, and I don't know if it's for the fear of losing that $5, or for spite because I won the item cheap, or they just don't get it that it's a crazy. That is the same kind of frustration I have here when something should be so clear, but it's not. Anyway, if you think I wrote that because I'm in a sour mood, or whatever, no way because I just finished packing what seemed like a million packages.... and yes, as soon as I was done I left positive feedback for every last one of them.

Iron Patch · Apr 3, 2014

cyberdan said:
I only leave feedback first if I am a buyer, and I always leave f/b as a buyer.

Now as a seller I only leave it after the buyer leaves his first. I have had 1037 sales with ebay and only 581 f/b has been left. Only one was a neg and he couldn't even type it out in good English. That one will dissappear in two weeks.

There you go. Probably 250 positive feedback lost because you won't leave it first.

MUD(S.W.A.T) · Apr 3, 2014

Again you "assume" I don't understand or I don't agree.. :dontknow:

I said you had good points and I appreciate them....

Keep @ it and HH !! :hello:

Joe777Cool · Apr 3, 2014

cyberdan said:
I only leave feedback first if I am a buyer, and I always leave f/b as a buyer.

Now as a seller I only leave it after the buyer leaves his first. I have had 1037 sales with ebay and only 581 f/b has been left. Only one was a neg and he couldn't even type it out in good English. That one will dissappear in two weeks.

56%? That seems really low to me. In the past 12 months of selling I received feedback approx 84% of the time. I always leave feedback first, as soon as the buyer pays.

Bassmaster96 · Apr 3, 2014

That's not a low percentage. It is pitiful how few people leave feedback. The way I do it, a buyer should not get mad and they should see what I am doing and should understand. I was getting the same thing with leaving feedback first, maybe even less.