In a message dated 1/24/2007 5:49:17 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Whether buying or selling, on the (relatively rare) occasions that I leave any feedback, I always wait until I've received feedback from the other party before I leave mine. If this results in a waiting game in which neither of us gets feedback... that's just fine with me. Can't see what the big deal is.
========= In my opinion it isn't a big deal, except for the seller. A lot of buyers will not buy (I won't) from sellers with a lot of negatives. If someone has about a thousand ratings and some negatives I will probably still buy, because when they are a heavy seller they are bound to have some negatives. So I read the negatives to see what they are. In some cases the negatives imply the seller may sometimes be hard to deal with, those I avoid. In some cases it seems like normal misunderstandings, those I will buy from. I also sell on Amazon, and because there isn't buyer feedback there per se, I get feedback from only about 10% or less of customers. That is partly why I wait on ebay, it works as a reminder. I tell them I will give them feedback once they give me feedback, and that means on ebay I only get 10% who *don't* give feedback. No one has complained to me about it, they can read the feedback I give buyers. I always leave positives, even if the payment is late, because some people prefer not to use credit card or PayPal or any other online method. Some people prefer to send a check, and that payment is always slower but I am not going to leave an neutral or negative about that, they had the right to choose to pay by a slower method. The thing is, people ought to look -- on ebay negative buyer feedback is much lower than seller negative feedback. A seller is not going to leave negative or neutral feedback for a buyer unless they absolutely have to, because there is no point in shooting oneself in one's foot. Seller feedback is much more important. Marnie aka Doe -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
