Yes I do less feedback than I used to but also my sales are so down the last year that its hard (very poor at maths !!!) to work out whether the actual percentage is so much less.
I do also send out some follow-up messages in which I say, amongst other things, 'if you feel my service warranted it, I would be very grateful to receive feedback, reflecting your satisfaction'. (grovel, grovel !!! ๐ ) This does bear some fruit.
I did very recently get feedback and a reply from one buyer who very sweetly said that she had never left feedback before, wasn't very computer savvy but for me she had learnt how to do it because she believed I deserved it (Positive FB, that is !)
This last buyer comment probably also attests to the comment mentioned in other posts here that a lot of buyers and possibly sellers as well, don't think feedback is that important.
I do think that sellers in particular overrate the importance of FB but I lay the blame for that at ebay's door since they are always 'banging on' about our seller performance and how the seller performance standards are such an measure of that !! As a result, for many each little defect, seems to take on such significance' when in fact this probably is not something prospective buyers take very much notice of !!
If you apply a bit of objectivity to this, you quickly see that this is ebay just attempting to keep us seller on a 'tight leash' !!!!
