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@south.coffee wrote:

 

 

On the Chinese eCommerce sites buyers & sellers receive automatic positive feedback 30 days after sale if either party has not done so and eBay should consider doing same.

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That likely would have come about from demand, probably more from the sellers, than anything else. I personally would not like to see auto-feedback of any form here, as it would only diminish the already-tenous state of the entire feedback system - eg buyers who perhaps weren't entirely happy but opted to just say nothing, would then be aware that the seller would get a positive unless they left something else, so I would predict an increase in negative and neutral feedback if that was implemented. I think it would also undermine the amount of trust buyers have in feedback profiles, unless perhaps there was a very clear way to distinguish auto-FB from those left by actual users - maybe even filter them out. 

I'd also (as a buyer and seller) rather an implicit positive over an explicit (but entirely token) positive - by which I mean I would prefer to see a transaction count on feedback profiles. eg PrettyDecentSeller - 15,032 transactions since 2015, 8346 positive feedback received, 8 negative received. Then it can show the usual stats for the last 12 months. From that you can ascertain that significant problems are very few and far between.