topic Re: FEEDBACK in Selling

FEEDBACK

billexploited — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 08:55:57 GMT

Attention ALL eBayers thankyou for your business and purchases can you please leave feedback. It is much appericated thankyou.

Cheers Billy (billexploited)

Re: FEEDBACK

casbit33 — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 09:24:29 GMT

perhaps they are thinking " if i can't say anything nice, i won't say anything at all".

No feedback is better than negative feedback with a defect attatched.

Re: FEEDBACK

phorum_junkie* — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 09:27:08 GMT

At least you are only begging for feedback here on the boards where only a tiny minority of buyers will see it (especially on the seller's board), I hope you do not email your buyers asking for feedback, if you do you may get some you would rather not have. If a buyer does not leave feedback it could be because they are mildly displeased so don't leave any feedback, askiing them for it would get you a neg

Re: FEEDBACK

fixnwear — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 12:37:37 GMT

phorum_junkie:

"Asking them for it would get you a neg"

Why is that - and how on Earth would you know with such conviction that anyone gets a neg just for asking for a feedback?

From what I see around the boards, those who want to leave a neg are seldom shy about it - are almost nevr holding back - they just do it.

Those who don't leave any at all - well, it could be lots of reasons.

Do they really get so crazy angry that they are asked to leave it - that that alone makes them give someone a neg?

Ridiculous!

But not surprising - almost everything on Ebay is totally oposite of a normal human behaviour.

Everyone in business asks for a f/back one way or another:

Restaurants

Airlines

Hotels

Stores,

Service Industries

Do we all just slander them for no other reason but just because they dared to ask?

Of course not! Quite the oposite.

They even have ready printed 2-3 page leaflets to be filled in

Ebay's f/dabck takes a fraction of the time - people are just lazy for the best part.

And almost everyone, without exception here on the boards tells sellers not to ask for a f/back as they will get a neg!

Several times sellers asked me to give them f/back once I have received the items - for the life of me I couldn't see anything wrong with it - their asking for f/back, it's just a normal thing, perfectly understandable and expected in the enviroment where sellers seem to have to depend on it and buyers seemingly place so much importance on when doing their shopping.

Re: FEEDBACK

imastawka — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 12:43:25 GMT

Says the person with private feedback.

We can't see if you practice what you preach

Re: FEEDBACK

janeababe — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 13:22:45 GMT

As a buyer only (now), what i find a little annoying, are sellers who leave the same feedback for EVERY buyer!

Almost a *one size fits all* promo!

Leaving feedback is optional. Sometimes I do, sometimes i dont.
I dont particularly like being ASKED to leave feedback.... Or reminded again and again to leave feedback....

Re: FEEDBACK

davewil1964 — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 13:35:37 GMT

@janeababe wrote:
As a buyer only (now), what i find a little annoying, are sellers who leave the same feedback for EVERY buyer!

Almost a *one size fits all* promo!

Leaving feedback is optional. Sometimes I do, sometimes i dont.
I dont particularly like being ASKED to leave feedback.... Or reminded again and again to leave feedback....

I do that. What would you suggest, given I leave feedback as soon as I post? And why is it annoying? You are surely aware of the value of buyer feedback.

Re: FEEDBACK

phorum_junkie* — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 14:36:17 GMT

Why is that - and how on Earth would you know with such conviction that anyone gets a neg just for asking for a feedback.

Because in days gone by it used to happen fairly often, enough that some people came to the boards to say they had received a neg with a comment like; "here is the feedback you asked for". There were others who came to the boards complainig about being spammed with emails asking for feedback, they were quite often advised to make their displeasure known!

Re: FEEDBACK

bettyboopsadaisy — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 22:35:34 GMT

What a strange post to leave on SELLERS boards !!??

Which of your buyers do you imagine will see this - an exercise in futility I would have thought !

Re: FEEDBACK

fixnwear — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 22:38:03 GMT

phorum_junkie,

thank you for that explanation - didn't realise that seems to be the par for the course, as they say:

Ask for a f/back - and get a neg because buyer has to register their displeasure!

Still doesn't explain anything really - as that is not normal.

It's normal to feel annoyed just because someone is asking you to leave f/back, there are 10000's of worse things that would cause even a mild annoyance and this isn't one of them.

How hard is to leave a f/back if someone wants it - or to type out a message saying: I don't want to leave you f/back because.....

Then they would't be asked heaps of times as the seller would know the situation and stop asking - point of "annoyance" eliminated!

And imastawka,

I don't preach anything - I am not even religious.

And that was particularly bad example as from what I hear and see in the news - hardly any of the religious proffesion people do as they preach! They do exactly the oposite. The most vile acts of cruelty and dishonesty, and double face hipocricy over the centuries come from religion.

As for proving to you and anyone else on the boards "that I practice what I preach" - that is not even relevant, last thing on my list of priorities in life (in fact, it's not even on the list).

Re: FEEDBACK

janeababe — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 23:38:27 GMT

@davewil1964 wrote:
@janeababe wrote:
As a buyer only (now), what i find a little annoying, are sellers who leave the same feedback for EVERY buyer!

Almost a *one size fits all* promo!

Leaving feedback is optional. Sometimes I do, sometimes i dont.
I dont particularly like being ASKED to leave feedback.... Or reminded again and again to leave feedback....

I do that. What would you suggest, given I leave feedback as soon as I post? And why is it annoying? You are surely aware of the value of buyer feedback.

...are you asking me or telling me???
either way, the answer is YES but its STILL NOT compulsory. As I said, sometimes I do, sometimes I dont. Not really worth the fuss......

Honestly, the less drama I can have with a purchase, the better for me. I don't want all this emailing and little notes asking for feedback in my parcel. I don't want to be flooded with emails from eBay, the seller, the seller, the seller THE SELLER!!!!!! UGH! Some sellers are really good and couldn't give two hoots about my 2cents worth of dribble feedback. Its not really worth 2 cents anyway.
Back in the good old days when you could write diatribes, it was entertaining to write/read or both. Now, with your limited characters you can barely get a *fast postage, as described* blah blah to that description before you run out of space. hardly worth the effort.
I'd rather have a cup of tea

Re: FEEDBACK

springyzone — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 00:27:15 GMT

I guess the first question would be-do you always leave feedback for your buyers?

Some of them might be holding out till they get theirs first.

I did have a laugh at one of the posts where someone said most buyers who want to give a neg don't hold back. Probably true.

But I have also been in the position where I was really, really livid about a couple of purchases but chose to leave nothing rather than give the transactions the rating they deserved. That's because a couple of other transactions with that seller had gone okay.

So I guess, be careful what you wish for!!

Really though, some people give feedback, some don't & asking here on the boards will get you nowhere. Those who never leave feedback probably can't be bothered reading boards either.

Re: FEEDBACK

englishrosegardens — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 01:59:52 GMT

@fixnwear wrote:
phorum_junkie:
"Asking them for it would get you a neg"

Why is that - and how on Earth would you know with such conviction that anyone gets a neg just for asking for a feedback?
From what I see around the boards, those who want to leave a neg are seldom shy about it - are almost nevr holding back - they just do it.
Those who don't leave any at all - well, it could be lots of reasons.
Do they really get so crazy angry that they are asked to leave it - that that alone makes them give someone a neg?
Ridiculous!
But not surprising - almost everything on Ebay is totally oposite of a normal human behaviour.
Everyone in business asks for a f/back one way or another:
Restaurants
Airlines
Hotels
Stores,
Service Industries
Do we all just slander them for no other reason but just because they dared to ask?
Of course not! Quite the oposite.
They even have ready printed 2-3 page leaflets to be filled in
Ebay's f/dabck takes a fraction of the time - people are just lazy for the best part.
And almost everyone, without exception here on the boards tells sellers not to ask for a f/back as they will get a neg!
Several times sellers asked me to give them f/back once I have received the items - for the life of me I couldn't see anything wrong with it - their asking for f/back, it's just a normal thing, perfectly understandable and expected in the enviroment where sellers seem to have to depend on it and buyers seemingly place so much importance on when doing their shopping.

A lot depends on how a seller asks for feedback. I'll put my hand up to leaving a neg because a seller asked. They left a response to it stating that they were only asking had I got my item but that wasn't true at all. They didn't ask had I got the item or was I happy with it, they simply asked me to leave feedback. Without asking was I happy with everything, I felt that asking for feedback was as good as telling me to leave it. I would have had a completely different attitude if they'd shown any interest in whether the item had arrived, but they didn't. It was ALL about them.

Re: FEEDBACK

wendshees-rocks — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 14:14:02 GMT

I got a message from a buyer yesterday "leave feedback ". No please, no thank you, just a demand. It got my back up real quick. He'll get is feedback, but not until 59 days after his purchase. I'll leave feedback when I'm good and ready. Usually every Sunday, but he can wait now.