Ebay Feedback - Is a Neutral still perfect

dbldie55

I was reading someone bragging about their perfect feedback but noticed they have some neautral feedback. I consider a neautral sort of like a tie in sports. It is not a loss, but certainly isn't perfect. (similar to a no-hitter with a walk is not a perfect game)

How do others feel about this sort of personal hype?

airplanenut

It depends on viewpoint... some think neutral should be normal, and positive only when someone went above and beyond... that's not how it is in reality- it depends what the neutral is for... I've seen dumb ones such as a buyer saying "Paid with PayPal." That's nice! I wouldn't count it against the seller... if it was "Poor quality, but fast shipping" then I'd say it does mar the feedback a little- obviously something went wrong, but a buyer controlled himself.

Jeremy

BSqr

I agree with airplanenut - nuetral should be par

Catch22

I'll give a neutral when I win an auction and end up returning a coin that was clearly, poorly described, leaving a major distraction unmentioned that affects value substantially. The auction usually starts with something like..."Problem free, original....

coppercoins

I've been registered at eBay under different IDs (one account at a time) since July, 1996. Back in the early days when a user would lose their registration (many call this NARU for "not a registered user") their positive feedback to you would automatically turn into a neutral and you would lose the point for it. I do not believe this is still the case, but there are many elder users out there who never "received" a neutral from a user yet still have neutral feedback.

As a side note, I don't claim perfection, but out of 1020 total feedbacks left by other users to my acount I have 20 neutrals - 14 of them were for the very reason stated above. A couple of others were uncalled for, as was my only negative....in six years of doing business both ways on their site. Only a few times due to stupidity did I deserve a neutral left for me....most were before I really knew how to use the site and didn't know I had won auctions.

Edited to add: My current feedback page shows I have been a member since May, 2000...that was just my most recent name merger. I had two other accounts before that. I had been "ce1295@nstar.net" but merged that account into "cdstamps" when I moved state to state in 1998. I then merged "cdstamps" into ".cd." in 2000 when we discontinued playing around with stamps on eBay and I got more serious about coins. The name would have been inappropriate for coins. Incidently, punctuation is no longer allowed for current registrants, so I belong to the "dying breed" user name club. My current ID could not be registered there today because of their rules.

wondercoin

"How do others feel about this sort of personal hype?"

It is flattering that you read my ebay ads

I have 1677 positive feedbacks from 1078 unique users and 0 negatives in 5 years on ebay. I believe in my case, several of the neutrals resulted from a positive becoming a neutral after a registered user either quit ebay or was tossed. I know there are folks out there that have more positives than me, but I truly work real hard to try to make as many ebayers as happy as I can.

But, dbldie55, why don't you spend 5 hours of your time and research all 9 neutrals (to better assess the meaning of "perfect")- you obviously have nothing better to do with your time

Wondercoin

gmarguli

I believe in my case, several of the neutrals resulted from a positive becoming a neutral after a registered user either quit ebay or was tossed.

When you pull up the feedback, it shows what number is the result of this. For you it shows:

1677 positives. 1078 are from unique users.
9 neutrals. 4 were converted from users no longer registered .
0 negatives. 0 are from unique users.

So, for 5 transactions you were rated "neutral". What it doesn't say is if those were all given by the same person or 5 different people.

The positive/negative to neutral system was badly flawed. If your account ever went NARU for *ANY* reason, all the feedback you left got converted. Kind of stupid.


I know there are folks out there that have more positives than me, but I truly work real hard to try to make as many ebayers as happy as I can.

You could leave feedback for buyers. I know it is a pain in the ass, but I'm sure it would make the buyers happy. I know at least one forum member stated that he wouldn't buy from you again since even after he emailed you and requested reciprocal feedback you never gave it to him. It's your business and you will run it the way you want, but I'm sure there are a fair amount of people out there that wouldn't do repeat business with a seller if they didn't leave them feedback.

You should know, the only time it is OK for you not to leave feedback is when Alan Hager is the buyer. Dog97 will flame you if you leave him feedback.

wondercoin

PM sent regarding the forum member. PM me back

Wondercoin

P.S. All caught up on feedback now as well