Can't leave feedback unless you rate an item?

[docscds]

I've been a shopper, and former seller, on ebay for almost twenty years, and, for the first time, I'm not able to leave feedback for a seller.

The reason is the sudden thing introduced that you have to rate the item you received as part of the feedback process.  That might be fine for some things, but in this case, a DVD, which are notoriously unreliable in performance, I won't know what to rate it until I actually watch it all the way through, and that won't be for a while.  I won't rate something when I'm not sure of its quality (in this case meaning the performance of the disc itself, rather than what it's actually showing, since I already know that, although that would also be the case sometimes).

Why did they come up with such a ridiculous idea?

[*sons_n_daughters*]

Don't worry about leaving feedback. A lot of sellers these days don't care about feedback because it means nothing. It's really only the Chinese that place a huge importance on feedback. Watch your DVD. If you like it, great. If you don't, chuck it in the bin! Given that most DVD's these days are less than 10 bucks, I really wouldn't be worrying too much.