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Buyers often don't leave feedback, sadly. Don't worry, eventually some of them will.I would definitely not ask buyers to leave feedback, a lot of buyers will find that annoying and you may not get the kind of feedback you want! Sometimes I've had sellers add a little note in the box, like "Thank you for your purchase! If you are happy with it please consider leaving feedback because it helps me a lot. " or something like that. Whether this actually helps or not I don't know, I've always left feedback anyway.
I have to admit, if someone asks me for feedback, they are less likely to get it I usually get around to feedback leaving but it takes me a while and I do it in bulk. I think a lot of people do it that way. I don't mind if I don't get feedback from a buyer. I would like to know if an item arrived, but I tend to figure if I don't have an angry message on my account, they're ok with the purchase...As I've said before, ebay feedback is largely meaningless since it wipes out every 12 months and negatives from prior transactions become invisible. I took so much pride in my account in the past with no negatives because then if you had a negative, it dinged your 100% forever, not just for 12 months. And sellers cannot leave negatives, which makes buyer feedback irrelevant too. Finally, since ebay removed the negative feedback on a counterfeit game seller's account because I'd got a refund, I don't genuinely believe that negative feedback means anything in the bigger picture. Apparently refunds = positive transaction = no negative allowed. And that's not how it works in my book. If Ebay went back to a proper feedback system where all feedback mattered and people could leave negative and positive feedback honestly and fairly again, then that would be different. But all that feedback matters now is getting sellers discounts on fees and stuff. Reality of that is that private and occasional sellers like myself now pay higher fees as this has to balance out somewhere. And that's just not right, either.
It's not silly or rude, it's reality.Let me put it another way.Last summer, my mother was in hospital with pneumonia. She was really ill, and it was chaos. I was home with my Dad, we were trying to manage everything along with the fact that my mother has a compromised immune system and all kinds of other health problems. During this time I got insistent messages from a seller demanding feedback.My duty to my seller is to pay for my item. This I do. I do not expect feedback from my seller, nor do I ever nag anyone, buyer or seller, because I am not so arrogant as to think that my feedback score should take priority over someone else's real life. I personally see selling as the enabling of yourself and the buyer - you get the money, they get the item. I don't sell things because I want someone to praise me publically. I sell things because I want the buyer to be happy. I spend my time and effort trying to ensure that happens. If that results in feedback, that's lovely - but if it's asked for, it has no meaning. It ought to be the honest thoughts of the buyer, not something they feel obliged to do because the seller has asked for it. I don't leave feedback I don't mean. I don't believe in it.I've been selling for 20 years and I remember when feedback was important. I also remember the feedback system in the trade community which was equally if not more important. You're seriously misled if you believe what ebay offers today can in any way, shape or form convey to a buyer or a seller whether or not the person they are about to deal with is honest or reliable. I have been scammed this year by someone with perfect feedback. I have seen numerous sellers with perfect feedback relist and cancel auctions or end them early without reason even when there are bids on them. The reality is that a lot of transactions these days fail for reasons they didn't used to fail. The diluting of feedback and the ease of reneging on deals are both part of why this is. On the odd occasion when I have had to leave a negative, it has been removed by ebay because I received a refund, even when it related to sale of counterfeit goods. So as far as I can see, how does my leaving feedback help inform future buyers? If I'm not allowed to leave anything but positives, what good does that do? And as I said, I do leave feedback. But I do it when I can, in bulk, and that is often several weeks later. I have a disability which also makes logistical things like form filling more complicated so it is less stressful for me to do it in bulk than to try and remember to log in every time I get a parcel. Most of the time my packages go home anyway, and I don't get them for weeks because I'm here. I can't leave feedback for what I haven't yet received.Sellers should not ask for feedback, because it implies you need to do it on their time scale, and that they think they are more important than everything else in your life. That's not reasonable or fair, and so I am within my rights in those instances to not leave feedback at all. It's not 'out of spite' because a seller asks me to 'click a couple of buttons'. Your post was out of line.
This is just silly and rude. A seller asking you to click a couple of buttons and you refuse to because.....no reason other than out of spite and because the system doesn't work exactly the specific way you personally want it to.