@craftymel14 wrote:
Ok, point taken, It's not Etsy. But I have to admit, it seems really strange to leave feedback for a buyer - 'good job, you bought something!' I mean, there are so many things that can go wrong with a sale that can reflect back on the seller, so I can appreciate the importance of feedback on a seller, but giving a buyer a shiny star for buying something kind of feels like giving a sticker to the special student just for turning up.....
I do appreciate your advise, I just really have trouble with the thought of giving someone feedback just because I'm hoping they will return the favour.
FB is surprisingly important to a lot of buyer-only members. I use "surprisingly" in the context of me being surprised just how important it can be, even after being here for 6 years and seeing how frequently the topic is brought up in the forum, usually along the lines of "sellers should leave feedback after I've paid", and a special few will even leave a neg or neutral because the seller didn't leave feedback for them. ๐
I will never (ever) tell anyone else if or how to leave FB, but it's probably worth noting that there are many who view feedback as being part of a transaction on eBay, rather than the occasional result of one - I don't necessarily share that view, but for some it is much like the "thank you" from a cashier in a retail outlet, and so in turn can sometimes affect a buyer's perception of their transaction (unfairly or not).
I'm on etsy as well (started a shop early this year), and you can see there's a really big difference in how FB is viewed, and that maybe 10-20% of sales result in a review from a buyer, while here it's usually closer to 70-90%, which does help highlight how much "in mind" (so to speak) it is for the average buyer. Communication lines are a lot more open over there, though, so it probably also has to do with teh fact that a lot of the time, the buyers and sellers have already said their proverbial thank yous directly.
