@itsjohnny1wrote:
Thanks for that deep insight. Lol
if you look the feeback is over a period of time .. i only bother to leave negative feedback because ebay is a farce.. most transactions are fine but the ones i left negative feeback for were shockers. 🙂
, of course you have the right on eBay to leave whatever feedback you want (unless the feedback contravens eBay's rules). However, if you only ever leave negative feedback, you are part of a widespread problem endemic to this whole feedback issue, because you are skewing feedback results, as has been said by a few posters above.
Feedback on eBay is percentage-based. That means that sellers (especially - and crucially - small sellers) need positive feedback from buyers when the transaction deserves good feedback, if negative feedback is always given when the transaction doesn't deserve good feedback. That is, if the negatives keep on being issued to a seller, while the same seller never receives a positive (although deserving of positives), the total number of his/her feedback grows only by the number of negatives, which means that the seller's percentage becomes lower and lower and lower, showing a very unfair and skewed result. If a seller performed to the highest possible standard 1000 times, but only ever received feedback for the 5 times that the seller was at fault, his feedback will look unjustifiably bad.
It's evident that most people will leave negative feedback when something goes wrong - sometimes buyers will even leave negative feedback when something in the purchase is not the seller's fault. It's also demonstrable that many buyers will not leave positive feedback for a problem-free transaction - simply because they don't think that the transaction needs any comment from them. (We are as human beings almost always loud in our complaints, but sometimes silent in our satisfaction - metaphorically speaking.)
If your approach to leaving feedback on eBay is that you'll only ever give negative feedback, it is possible that you will be silently added to many sellers' blocked bidders list, as they see no benefit in your potential purchase (no positive feedback, high possibility of negative feedback for perhaps no good reason in their view). The way in which any buyer leaves feedback forms part of their overall reputation on eBay as either a good buyer or a bad buyer. If you don't leave feedback for transactions that are fine, you are also skewing your own results. Sellers will see the negatives you've given out, note the dearth of positives given by you, and class you as a problematic and bad buyer. If your negatives are truly given for "shockers", then that reputation would be unfair to you, surely... and could easily be remedied by your giving a quick positive for transactions that are fine. That would demonstrate that the negatives you have given are indicative of a bad transaction rather than a bad buyer, perhaps.
But I do note that you have left some positive feedback for sellers in the past... "I like to encourage good service" was an encouraging positive from you. But I respect your right to leave no feedback if you don't wish to do so; eBay makes the rules about feedback in their playpen.
