FEEDBACK

[billexploited]

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

Cheers Billy (billexploited)

[casbit33]

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.

[phorum_junkie*]

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

[fixnwear]

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.

[imastawka]

Says the person with private feedback.

We can't see if you practice what you preach     

[janeababe]

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.... 

[davewil1964]

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@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.... 

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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.

[phorum_junkie*]

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!

[bettyboopsadaisy]

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 !

[fixnwear]

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).