On Jan 23, 2007, at 4:27 PM, Perry Pellechia wrote: > I agree 100%. I just bought a Optech strap from an eBay dealer and he > "thanked" me for the sale and wrote "you can anticipate us leaving > positive feedback for you ... when you have posted positive feedback > for us." > > This is BS. I bought the item via buy-it-now and paid immediately. > He should be leaving positive feedback for me at that moment. I have > lived up to my part of the deal and feedback should not be considered > part of the payment. > > Needless to say I am not going to be making any repeat business with > this dealer nor will I be leaving any feedback.
I agree with you. I refuse to leave feedback for anyone who implies a threat like that, unless it's negative feedback, and I usually report such nonsense to the Ebay staff. As a seller, I post feedback on the buyer when I have received payment and shipped the product to them via a tracked service. That's when my part of the transaction is complete. As a buyer, I leave feedback when the transaction is completed ... when I have received all the merchandise I paid for and verified its condition. Earlier than that would not reflect an evaluation of the transaction, that's when the transaction is complete. Case in point: My old LD player died for the third time and I could not justify sending it out for a $240 repair again. Meanwhile, I still have a huge number of LDs that I like, many of which are not available on DVD yet (nor do I really want to buy them again). So I hunted around and found that I could get a serviceable if not quite the same quality Pioneer CL D2400 for about $35 from a vendor on Ebay. Not a great player but good enough for my purposes. I used the BIN, paid immediately, and waited for the package to arrive. The seller and shipped the package on time, left positive feedback as I had fulfilled my part of the transaction. The player arrived on schedule, but the remote listed in the auction was not in the box. I sent a note asking whether there'd been some mistake, as the auction clearly listed the remote as included. The seller responded within a day, their mistake, and they would send on the remote separately. It arrived in four days, I tested it with the player and everything worked well, the seller had completed their part of the transaction properly. I left feedback that the transaction was positive with good communications and item as described. That's how it should work. Only a jerk would consider the feedback to be part of the transaction on the part of the buyer and the obligation of the buyer to post first. I would never knowingly buy anything from a jerk. G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
