Hi mrs_brand,

Buyers pay - big deal! They have to anyway, it's not some amazing and grand gesture that has to be rewarded with feed back.

They could turn out to be rude, crude, impatient, picking faults with everything - bothering the seller no end - most certainly not even close to a pleasant experience for the seller!

For that alone seller would be perfectly justified to leave a neg saying it was most umpleasant experience  blah, blah, blah - except they can't as only positive f/back is available for the buyers.

So they choose to leave none.

Many times I have heard and seen sellers say how they feel like a royal dill for leaving a glowing report for someone who turned out to be totally horrible in every way - after they paid!

By the same token - wander what the buyer would say if something did go wrong after the sale, feed back was left by both parties - and seller turns around and says: my end of the transaction is completed, I have posted the item, - bugger off!

No transaction is over - until it's over - and only then f/back should be left.

Some may argue that it's a sign of confidence on seller's part in their product, being as described and all that - they are not worried to leave the f/back instantly. Ribbish! Nothing to do with seller's confidence or the product,  for those who don't leave it - it's to do with not knowing what sort of person buyer may turn out to be like - as we all know some will give sellers hell for no reason - just because they can! 

Cheers, January.