@4channel wrote:
For me, I like to reward good sellers with good fweedback. It is important to me.
I have to ask....
Why? There are multiple ways you can reward a seller for a job well done, or whatever premise you're using as a basis for reward.
The way you have framed this comment, strongly suggests that it's still something you want for yourself, that it satisfies something for you more than it provides the seller with something, and I think if you asked the majority of sellers how they feel about feedback being characterised as a reward, few would have a positive reaction to that. (That may be, of course, because it implies that a negative / neutral feedback is a punishment, and both concepts are antithetical to what the feedback system was designed for, but highly representative of what it's often used for, much to the chagrin of the majority of sellers).
You speak this way fairly often, such as when you suggest that feedback is a way to keep (certain) sellers "in line".
It's kinda offensive and condescending, TBH.
But, I'm also not a fan of the practice of sellers putting marketing material in with packages asking for FB, never have liked that in any capacity. And, you have to recognise it's marketing, it's telling you a story to get a preferred result. You'll notice that they don't ask for honest feedback, they specifically ask for positive feedback - this isn't because getting feedback is important to them, it's because they want to avoid getting negative feedback, and that's not the same thing as feedback itself being important to a seller.
As soon as you mentioned NOTM and NOTY I knew I was right.
