100%! All of the negative feedback I’ve received was either a reverse scam or someone totally in the wrong. I had a guy buy a card thinking it was 1st edition, even though that wasn’t mentioned anywhere in the title, description or photo. He opened a case, lost, left negative feedback, and eBay removed it. I also had someone the other day leave low star reviews on shipping cost, they paid $5, I paid $20. On all my re-lists now I just do free shipping.
eBay is so lazy at making simple adjustments that could avoid all this nonsense, like automated 5 stars on shipping costs if you pay more than the buyer. Glad they decided to make an attempt with automated feedback.
I definitely like the idea of automated feedback, but hope I can opt out of it. Recently I’ve chosen not to leave feedback for a couple of sellers when I had a somewhat bad experience, but not bad enough that I want to leave a permanent mark on their eBay history.
Alternatively, if feedback is automated, doesn’t feedback just become a glorified “number of sales” counter?
It doesn’t surprise me there are buyers that don’t leave (positive) feedback, but I didn’t knew the average was that low..
I always leave (positive) feedback. In rare cases where I’ve forgotten when the package arrived, I’m reminded by eBay’s ‘there are still some items awaiting feedback’ emails. Wasn’t expecting to be in a 5-10% group of buyers.. And it’s not like I don’t order a lot, especially when you consider I’m over 1.6k rep on eBay without having sold anything even once, haha.
I do hope these automatic feedbacks will be after at least two months (preferably 3+), since lately a lot of packages are very slow, although 75% of those did arrive eventually. I’ve had multiple orders from early/mid July arriving mid/end September.
I would be pretty annoyed if eBay starts automatically giving feedback to sellers for packages that haven’t even arrived yet.
Just as people now use google reviews mainly for negative experiences , and the positives reviews businesses have to give incentives for patrons to leave them.. crappy times we’re living in .
I don’t think most people read positive feedback anyways; I expect most people (myself included) just look at overall ratio + any really bad negative feedback indicating fakes/scams
