rarebourbon
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posted on September 2, 2001 02:52:22 PM
What's your feedback score?
89% of the sellers and 65% of the buyers I've dealt with left feedback. I've left feedback 98% of the time either way. (The few exceptions were because I couldn't decide how to rate the individual due to unusual circumstances.)
You can check to see which auctions you haven't yet left feedback for in the last 90 days by clicking here:
http://cgi2.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?LeaveFeedbackShow
You can check to see how consistently other buyers & sellers leave feedback by checking here...
http://cgi2.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedbackleft&userid=USERIDHERE
...but change USERIDHERE to the user id you want to check on, then copy and paste the whole address into your browser.
rarebourbon
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lps2cd
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posted on September 4, 2001 03:18:12 PM
I guess the pathetic lack of responses to this thread answers your question, eh?
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shoshanah
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posted on September 4, 2001 03:49:48 PM
There is no rhyme nor reason anymore! I have given up...When a 1500 feedback person chooses to NOT LEAVE ANY, it makes me want to stop leaving any for anyone...
I would prefer a nice feedback to a "Thanks! It's just WONDERFUL..", but no feedback 
It used to be that compliments were always followed by FB...Now, they are INSTEAD of...
********
Gosh Shosh!
My "About Me" Page
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imabrit
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posted on September 4, 2001 04:00:01 PM
I have left 7700 and gotten 5450 back in return.I know I did not do it for everyone but we try our best to do so.
I do wonder about the other 2300 I never got in return.Plus I only have 3500 or there about unique.
With 4 negs 2 came from the same bidder in the last week who did not like the fact that I sent her a payment reminder.
Adrian
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keziak
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posted on September 4, 2001 04:23:10 PM
I always leave FB but I'm slower about it than I used to be, and I don't feel particularly apologetic. I find it easier to batch them once a week.
As for getting it, I certainly do appreciate kind words but I have no idea whose left me some and who hasn't because I don't look at it much anymore.
keziak
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Oreorules
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posted on September 5, 2001 06:07:59 AM
When I buy an item I usually leave feedback once I receive Item. Recently I bought a widget and after receiving an email that item was shipped and that after I left positive feedback, I would get an automated feedback from their program. What BS! I had a very negative experience with this seller and wanted to say so but not at the risk of my own feedback. I won and paid for the item via Paypal within 5 minutes. But the threat was too much for me.
When I sell an item I always leave feedback once I hear that customer is fully satisfied. That has worked incredibly well for me and plan to continue this practice. I do agree tho that persons with high feedback hardly ever leave feedback. I guess their thoughts are I have enough feedback now why bother?
Oreo
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mballai
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posted on September 5, 2001 09:38:34 AM
Feedback is always appreciated. It's the right thing to do.
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BufPuf
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posted on September 5, 2001 10:57:01 AM
http://www.vrane.com/ef.html
I use this all the time!
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MrsSantaClaus
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posted on September 5, 2001 10:05:07 PM
I leave feedback for 99 percent of my auctions. To me it is just the right thing to do.
BECKY
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zoomin
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posted on September 6, 2001 07:11:31 AM
I leave feedback 99.9% of the time.
I neg all non-payers.
The only time I do not leave FB is when a bidder becomes NARU before I get the chance.
To date:
I've left 1913 (of which 49 were negs)
Received 1257.
Oreorules:
>>persons with high feedback hardly ever leave feedback. I guess their thoughts are I have enough feedback now why bother?<<
Curious at to this statement.
I have found quite the opposite.
High FB sellers are usually involved in keeping repeat business and aware of the simplification tools for leaving FB (vranes or software).
Perhaps it is category specific?
only ZOOMIN here 
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zoomin
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posted on September 6, 2001 07:18:27 AM
Oops!
Second ID for a different category.
Left 169 (one neg).
Recd 107.
I leave FB about 98% of the time.
More often than not, a NPB in this category has suffered a tremendous loss and I will not neg someone under those circumstances.
One true DB, from what I could tell.
only ZOOMIN here
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kept2much-07
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posted on September 6, 2001 07:31:34 AM
I almost always leave feedback but there are cases where I haven't. Most of the times when I don't it's when I'm the buyer. Some sellers need to get a clue! Right now I'm dealing with one who said she hasn't got my emails but she knew where I lived to calculate shipping? I only put the state on my auctions and not the town so she didn't get it from there. The last person I bought from one of the shakers I bought had a little crack in the neck of it and the shakers were advertised as being mint. She had packed them very well and I doubted that the p.o. had broken it. Another seller with automated responses took forever(emailed several times) to answer a question about how much state tax would be. So I'm giving these sellers and a few others the benefit of the doubt and I am not leaving feedback! Of course these clueless sellers hadn't left me feedback and I wasn't taking a chance on my feedback by telling my experience with them.
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Oreorules
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posted on September 6, 2001 07:35:34 AM
zoomin
Curious at to this statement.
I have found quite the opposite.
High FB sellers are usually involved in keeping repeat business and aware of the simplification tools for leaving FB (vranes or software).
Perhaps it is category specific?
I made this statement because it is my experience. As I buy a variety of different items from clothes, books, electronics, toys, games and others I don't feel it is category specific.
I have found that I receive approximately 3% feedback on what I buy(and usually I only bid on items that take Paypal and pay as soon as auction ends) and over 90% feedback on what I sell.
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thepackratsattic
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posted on September 6, 2001 08:29:10 AM
"I wasn't risking MY feedback by leaving the story of MY bad transaction with this seller/buyer..."
GEE: THANKS! Let the rest of us out here in cyberauctionland get burned too!
Food for thought: Maybe, JUST MAYBE, if some other gutless, feedback-fearing, buyers or sellers had posted THEIR true stories, YOU would have had some prior knowledge of a track record that wasn't too good! No...instead YOU TOO got burned! And now you are almost bragging about CONTINUING the problem over fear of a neg!!!
I will never understand why people are so afraid of using feedback the way it was MEANT to be used: bragging about the good ones and WARNING everyone else about the bad ones!
Please don't ever complain about a bad deal and boast about being a feedback chicken!
Are you one of those people that don't bother to vote and then complain vehmently about what a crappy bunch of politicians we have???? SAME theory!
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suz23
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posted on September 6, 2001 08:32:01 AM
rarebourbon: Thanks for the great"click" I did that and was amazed. I always thought that only 1 out of 7 responded to feedback but my score was great for me!
approx 400 left feedback and I gave 588 on one id and the other was: I left 164 and 114 left me some ! One is basically for romances and buying (smaller number) the other is for more serious books or junk I have collected ( junk to my husband only!) THanks again ~ I always leave feedback for a completed sale if paypal or billpoint and as soon as possible ~ I sometimes send off items before waiting for payment to arrive though ( everyone who gave me an address in their email and said they were going to send off payment has always come through!) and here I get behind in leaving comments. On marketplace Amazon~ there you get zip or no feedback ~ I beg for feedback there~ or you get negative feedback as the buyer didn't like the book! LOL!
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genxmike
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posted on September 6, 2001 09:26:20 AM
We leave feedback when we receive feedback.
You leave a positive, you get a positive.
You leave a neutral, you get a neutral.
You leave a negative, you get a negative.
You do not leave feedback, you do not get feedback.
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ok4leather
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posted on September 6, 2001 10:13:06 AM
I leave FB for all transactions now but used to let non-pays slide to escape retalitorys. Ive decided to neg all non pays from now-on. It keeps the weeds to a managable level.
Koplah !
Ed
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honaker5
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posted on September 6, 2001 09:19:42 PM
65 left and 41 received.......
I always leave feedback... good or bad.
Only left one neg, though..... NPB 
Tim
honaker5 on ebay and elsewhere
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ihula
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posted on September 7, 2001 05:20:45 AM
That link was very interesting. In my auctionwatch system that I use I am very careful and systematic in my feedback. I use custom and "preworded" feedback as soon as I ship the item and then delete it out of my system - so I always thought close to 100% of feedback had been left. I clicked on the link and it said I had 96 feedbacks to leave! I can't imagine what happened to feedbacks that I thought I had left for those people!
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Meya
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posted on September 7, 2001 05:30:48 AM
I have a net feedback of 327, with 342 overall.
I have 1 neutral from way back when I was just starting. It was a mixed up sale to a Canadian buyer who didn't know the difference between USPS and UPS. Live and learn.
I've left 449, 6 of which were negatives.
I leave feedback for 99% of transactions, and I do leave negs for deadbeats. A couple of times they were NARU'd before I got the change.
I had one retaliatory neg which was removed because it was vulgar and filled with obsenity.
So I'm running about 75%.
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litlux
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posted on September 7, 2001 05:44:01 AM
I used to leave feedback for every buyer. Then I received a couple of emails from buyers who didn't want feedback and one complaining that I had left it without asking them.
Today, I reciprocate feedback from buyers, never initiate it unless specifically requested. It is spelled out in my end of auction notice, and a note in the package.
Seems to have solved the problem, no complaints, just happy, happy, happy buyers!
(Edited to remove typo!)
[ edited by litlux on Sep 7, 2001 05:45 AM ]
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cougarls88
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posted on September 7, 2001 06:09:04 AM
Interesting link...as with many of you, I've left more FBs than I've received back. I've received less than 0.3% negative/neutrals (and the number isn't accurate--should be lower), but the percentage I've dinged back is approaching 1%.
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