Changes to eBay feedback
jfkheat
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It seems like a lot of buyers no longer leave feedback on eBay especially for cheaper stuff. I just found out that eBay is now leaving Automated Feedback if the buyer doesn't leave feedback. I'm not sure how many days they wait before leaving the feedback. On your feedback page there is a box you can click on and it will show the automated feedbacks. If you don't click on that box you will see your rating number go up but won't see the feedback that made it go up.
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I also think that sellers don't always leave feedback. Many times I purchased items and it did not reflect on my purchase count.
It's kinda tedious leaving feedback. I like the idea of an automated system.
A couple weeks ago I left negative feedback to a shady seller who never sent my item after a purchase . A few days later after I left the neg, ebay removed it. I was NOT happy.
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As a seller, I have it set to automatically give feedback once the buyer pays.
I do the same thing.
I left negative feedback once and Ebay did not like it. I think they really wanted me to change it.
I used to do that until a couple years ago, when I sold a Bonds RC for about $25 and then he listed it on eBay for $350. When it didn't sell after two weeks, he said he didn't receive it and left negative feedback for me. I contacted eBay and explained he did receive it and still had it listed, so they closed it out and removed his feedback. Now I wait until the buyer sends me feedback and I respond. If he doesn't send anything, oh well, at least I sold it.
I too left a negative comment about a seller only to have eBay remove it. I received the a box from the seller, but it contained nothing ... not the slabbed PSA card I purchased. Left a negative review, obviously, but eBay removed it saying that the package was delivered. Yes, it was ... but it was empty with no sign of tampering while in transit.
To me ebay ratings are a complete fraud that I don't trust ... just deal with the sellers you know.
Was it a large NJ based seller?
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Ebay feedback is ridiculous these days. It's always been flawed and it is mostly meaningless these days, as you can almost always get your money back if a transaction goes wrong. Maybe negative feedback will warn you, but most people seem to ignore it either way. On that thought, I also had a negative removed from a seller not that long ago who provided me a negative experience. What is the point if it just gets removed?
I also no longer leave it as a buyer after they removed the spot on the my Ebay page where you could see if the seller had left any first. I tried my best to get that back. I answered surveys, emailed ebay and have even asked a few large sellers to pass the word as well, thinking ebay might actually listen to large sellers. It's too labor intensive now to go back and see if feedback has been left for me, as I absolutely refuse to leave feedback for sellers who won't leave it for buyers after they pay. This hostage method many sellers have resorted to with feedback (I'll leave you a positive once you leave me one first) is stupid and as a buyer, I don't care if anyone actually leaves me feedback when I am a buyer, but if the seller wants it from me as a buyer, they had better have already left it for me first. It's the principal, not the feedback. No argument will ever change my mind on that one.
I don't like the idea of automated feedback, unless it's automated on both sides. Have believed this for years: As a seller, you leave feedback for the buyer after they pay. As a buyer, you leave it for the seller after they deliver the item to you.> @mnkevin said:
That is probably a once in a lifetime chance event, where as you are withholding feedback for most buyers who are just buying stuff for fun. In the end, it doesn't matter, but anyone who is whining about not getting feedback needs to think about how they run their operation.
The funniest thing about feedback is reading through the endless back-patting comments being posted by "buyers" from those seller folks whom we already know are shady at best or the scammers who have a few cheap sales and then follow up with a phony Mantle or Jordan or something else considered highly valuable. The tactical use of feedback to fool people is quite common now.