posted on December 20, 2000 03:03:59 PM
Hi, its been a long, long time since I've posted here at AW but I have a question. I'm basically a buyer but have sold several items in the 2+ years I've been on eBay. Whenever I sold an item, I would leave feedback for the buyer as soon as I received payment (or when the check cleared if it was a personal check). Lately, I've purchased several items and within minutes of the auctions ending, I paid for the items using paypal. While I certainly don't expect the sellers to instantly leave me feedback, how long do you usually wait to leave feedback for someone who pays using paypal? I ask because after purchasing an item over a week ago, I still haven't received any feedback. Its not a huge deal or anything but got me curious about what others do. Thanks for any responses. (I apologize if this topic or a variant of it has been discussed at length in the past).
Well, you will get 2 gazillion different approaches, all of them correct, it it works...
Speaking only for myself, I used to leave feedback right away, upon receiving payment. Then a certain opinionated ((: ) poster convinced me to wait till the transaction was totally over, package received and approved of...Now, I go back and forth, depending on how "smooth" the transaction went: speed of communication and mailing of payment. If there is a bit of a glitch, I wait till buyer has received parcel. If a super nice person, I leave FB immediately.
I have found that lately, many Sellers/Buyers leave their feedback in one lump, such as once a month or so, and since once can now leave FB up to 90 days after EOA, sometimes, I am (pleasantly) surprized to wake up to a feedback I no longer was thinking about...
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posted on December 20, 2000 03:25:05 PM
Sometimes you get it right after an online payment. Sometimes you don't get it for several weeks. Sometimes you don't get it at all.
There is a wide variety of opinion on this subject. As a buyer I leave it at the completion of a tranaction ,when the item is in hand. I've left a lot more than I've received.
At some point it doesn't seem to matter that much anymore.
posted on December 20, 2000 04:03:12 PM
fiset,
Has the seller acknowledged receipt of your payment, or have you already received the item? If the answer is no, you might want to check with the seller to verify that your payment was deposited into the proper account.
Well, thats the thing. Not only did the seller acknowlede receipt of payment but I called him (he had a toll-free number posted on his listing) and asked him if he had anymore of the same item for sale. Turned out he did and I ended up buying several more of the same item from him right there on the phone.
It is quite probable that this seller leaves bulk feedback at some future time and thats fine but I just thought after the way he and I did business, he would have left a feedback within a week. After reading some of the posts in the "Who Leaves Feedback First" thread, I see that he may have been waiting to receive feedback from me first. Again, thats fine, except I already left feedback.
I am somehow uncomfortable with the idea of writing the seller and asking for a feedback since I feel that doing so would "cheapen" the the feedback once received in that I had to "ask" for it. I know that isn't exactly logical (feedback is feedback) but I guess its just that "feeling of appreciation" would be missing. The end of the world? Of course not, its just that its nice to be appreciated sometimes.
