Personally, I wouldn't be allowing any more than the 4 days they get from ebay.
I guess if you mainy run auctions, then buyers probably won't be online when the auction finishes, so they will need time, but I can't see why that should take your normal buyer more than a day or so.
If a buyer doesn't pay, you just report it as an unpaid sale & get your fees back, as others have said.
Why do buyers get away with feedback? To give other buyers a sense of a particular seller's strengths and weaknesses.
Why can't sellers give feedback? In the old days, they could. But a few abused it. If a buyer gave a well deserved neg (and they could only leave short messages back then, but slow postage, not receiving item or receiving broken items etc don't take too many words), then some sellers would automatically give a neg back to a seller.
This was often in the days before paypal, where a buyer had no protection.
I did see one buyer ask a seller-Why have you given me a neg when i paid promptly? The seller replied-You gave me a neg so obviously it was a negative experience. That's not good enough-it was simply **bleep** for tat, a standover tactic, as in, don't dare give us a neg or we will neg you right back.
It had to stop. It did. I'd say ebay had an avalnache of buyer complaints about it.
That doesn't mean there aren't some numpty buyers out there who don't give ridiculous feedback sometimes but most other buyers can spot a silly comment when they see one.
