07-03-2008, 06:31 AM
I think it is a good move to try to prevent retaliatory feedback for buyers when a seller receives negative feedback, but to completely remove it is not the way to go.
I once had an item that I paid for right after the auction ended. About the time I was expecting it to come in the mail, I got an email saying it just shipping! It took them a weekend and a week just to ship it off. Obviously I wasn't going to leave positive feedback, but seeing as how I had paid promptly I was expecting the seller to leave me positive feedback. They never did such a thing and so I refused to give feedback until they did. Apparently they felt the same way, however, and kept pestering to me to leave them feedback first. Well at this point it was definitely going to be negative feedback. I don't think we ever left each other feedback, but I just knew that if I gave them negative feedback they would have done the same to me for completely unjustified reasons. Oh well, ebay is good for some items but it's not the first place I look.
I once had an item that I paid for right after the auction ended. About the time I was expecting it to come in the mail, I got an email saying it just shipping! It took them a weekend and a week just to ship it off. Obviously I wasn't going to leave positive feedback, but seeing as how I had paid promptly I was expecting the seller to leave me positive feedback. They never did such a thing and so I refused to give feedback until they did. Apparently they felt the same way, however, and kept pestering to me to leave them feedback first. Well at this point it was definitely going to be negative feedback. I don't think we ever left each other feedback, but I just knew that if I gave them negative feedback they would have done the same to me for completely unjustified reasons. Oh well, ebay is good for some items but it's not the first place I look.