Originally Posted by
Little Darwin
My one negative feedback was retaliatory because I left a negative for the seller who sent the wrong item 1 month after I paid, and didn't respond to 5 messages in the next 4 weeks , so I will shed no tears about a seller not having the ability to leave negative feedback against a buyer.
The sellers brought that on themselves when they started the practice of buying feedback with their feedback a couple of years ago... They should have just earned their feedback the old fashioned way, with customer satisfaction... then they would still have negative feedback to use for real bad buyers and deadbeats instead of retaliation for bad feedback.
No loss in my book...
EDIT: I have only sold a couple of dozen times, but I posted positive feedback as soon as I shipped, every time.
I agree. I don't leave negative feedback because I don't want to get a retaliatory neg. I think this causes an artificial higher feedback score for the sellers. Sure, the sellers' scores are going to drop and there will be some bad buyers that leave undeserved negs, but I think this will even out. So, a 97.2 rating won't be bad anymore. We will all need to adjust to determine a good vs. bad score, but I will start leaving neg feedback now for sellers that deserve it.
I don't know if I have been lucky or not, but so far, I
would have only left two negatives. The rest of my sellers I believed did fine and they have received their positive feedback.