@thecatspjs wrote:Offer outstanding, exceptional service, significantly superior to other sellers in your market, so they feel compelled to take the time to leave feedback that sings your praises as an amazing seller
Totally agree!! While some buyers can never be bothered leaving it, most buyers are more inclined to do it if they received exceptional service (and products) from the seller.
If a seller doesn't leave feedback first, I usually don't bother to leave any. I'm not alone in thinking that I've done my bit by buying and paying promptly, so I deserve feedback. Buyers don't really 'owe' the seller anything except to pay for items when they buy them. If people want to sell things they need to look after their buyers, not the other way around. To think that a buyer owes them anything more than payment is unrealistic, and to try and blackmail them into leaving feedback by not leaving any first will usually backfire.
I always send buyers a message when I've posted their item and then I wait a few hours before leaving feedback. The delay is only so that if they contact me and say thanks (for letting them know it's posted) I leave better feedback than if there was no communication. I'd only be making more work for myself by waiting until they'd left feedback because I'd have to check through my emails so see what they were like as a buyer before I left feedback for them.
