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Maybe you've just struck an odd patch.
In my experience, most sellers on ebay these days tend to be semi professional, small businesses.
I am usually given feedback after I have given it to them, although very occasionally I may get it immediately after payment.
But my perception is most sellers now hold off till you give them positive feedback first.
I can understand that in a way. A seller can't give a neg and they would be kicking themselves if they gave a glowing feedback to someone who later turned out to be a scammer or difficult customer.
It's the private sellers, the home sellers, where I find FB is a bit hit or miss-may or may not get it.
Personally, I think once you have a reasonable amount behind you, it isn't a big deal whether you get it or not but I must admit it always looks more professional to me if a seller does eventually give FB as it feels as if they have completed the whole process. Plus I like them to tick the box to show when an item has been posted.
I like that attention to detail.
As for the importance of FB. It can vary but sometimes you can pick up a trend eg today i was looking at a DVD. The seller has a fair bit of FB that says the same thing over & over-extremely slow postage, as in weeks after expected. As their projected postage is already pretty long for a local seller, the FB is telling me there is something going on, maybe drop shipping or whatever, but not to buy from them if I want anything within the month. So yes, it can be useful to have FB.
Interestingly, more & more sites are introducing some form of FB but usually it is just about the product, not the buying process.
There are quite a number of sellers who never leave feedback at all, I wouldn't know how many of them I've bought from TBH, but judging by how much feedback I've left vs how much I've received, on the whole it'd be a really small percentage - my guess is you just happened to strike 4 at once.
Other possibilities are that their FB is automated and didn't work for some reason. I leave feedback manually but in bulk (that is, with some exceptions, I use the selling manager tool to select all orders awaiting feedback then click again to apply my comment to all), but it's not unusal for that not to work. Sometimes I've left feedback but get a message from a buyer asking me to leave it (not advisable to do this 
), and for whatever reason, I can see it in my "feedback left for others" profile, but it doesn't show on the buyer's profile. No idea if the 'feedback received' icon is filled out on their order details, though.
Maybe you've just struck an odd patch.
In my experience, most sellers on ebay these days tend to be semi professional, small businesses.
I am usually given feedback after I have given it to them, although very occasionally I may get it immediately after payment.
But my perception is most sellers now hold off till you give them positive feedback first.
I can understand that in a way. A seller can't give a neg and they would be kicking themselves if they gave a glowing feedback to someone who later turned out to be a scammer or difficult customer.
It's the private sellers, the home sellers, where I find FB is a bit hit or miss-may or may not get it.
Personally, I think once you have a reasonable amount behind you, it isn't a big deal whether you get it or not but I must admit it always looks more professional to me if a seller does eventually give FB as it feels as if they have completed the whole process. Plus I like them to tick the box to show when an item has been posted.
I like that attention to detail.
As for the importance of FB. It can vary but sometimes you can pick up a trend eg today i was looking at a DVD. The seller has a fair bit of FB that says the same thing over & over-extremely slow postage, as in weeks after expected. As their projected postage is already pretty long for a local seller, the FB is telling me there is something going on, maybe drop shipping or whatever, but not to buy from them if I want anything within the month. So yes, it can be useful to have FB.
Interestingly, more & more sites are introducing some form of FB but usually it is just about the product, not the buying process.
