what ebay feedback to give

Fr0dders · 15 Jun 2010 at 19:02

had a rather painfull ebay transaction. No payment from the buyer and no payment till the third threat of negative feedback. Did get paid eventually, but the feedback was hardly amazing or great. Cant really leave negative feedback as they did pay and claim they were away, but its just the done thing to buy something on ebay buy it now, not pay, then "go away" for a week.

So what can i say in the positive feedback without lieing ?

J1234 · 15 Jun 2010 at 19:05

Leave neutral and tell the truth?

Fr0dders · 15 Jun 2010 at 19:06

i dont have that option.

only positive or leave feedback later ?

JohnnyDrama · 15 Jun 2010 at 19:07

Tell the truth? Putting it as positive feedback just highlights the problems with eBay

Dangerous Dave · 15 Jun 2010 at 19:58

As a seller ebay will only allow you to give positive feedback so I wouldn't leave any in this case.

Begbie · 15 Jun 2010 at 20:01

Was this for the Whisky?

mattyfez · 15 Jun 2010 at 20:09

Tricky one, at the end of the day, you're not out of pocket, so bad feedback would be unethical. Just don't give any feedback.

ThriceNightly · 15 Jun 2010 at 20:25

mattyfez said:
Just don't give any feedback.

+1

Raumarik · 15 Jun 2010 at 20:42

I don't sell on ebay but do buy ocassionally, it's shocking that sellers can't leave feedback that's truthful and negative ones at that. I'd simply not give any feedback on this.

gort · 15 Jun 2010 at 20:43

It's so carp that you can't even leave neutral feedback for a buyer!

DJMK4 · 15 Jun 2010 at 20:47

Dont leave feedback until they have! trust me, they will give you bad feedback in spite after you give them bad feedback unless ebay have now stopped this flaw?

just Scott · 15 Jun 2010 at 21:03

DJMK4 said:
Dont leave feedback until they have! trust me, they will give you bad feedback in spite after you give them bad feedback unless ebay have now stopped this flaw?

They stopped that problem by only allowing sellers to leave positive feedback.

fidget · 15 Jun 2010 at 21:24

H2F Scott said:
They stopped that problem by only allowing sellers to leave positive feedback.

I've not sold on eBay for a couple of years, but that is really bad. How is a trader (who IMO is at just as much risk as the buyer) alble to know if it's safe to deal with someone?

mcast123 · 15 Jun 2010 at 21:50

I've had a competitor on ebay create at least 5 different accounts, buy my items (to remove my ad) and pay by a bounced echeque. I pay fees on items I haven't sold and ebay can't do anything about it, I can't even leave negative feedback.

Paypal is even worse with their chargebacks, basically any buyer can get their money out your account anytime they want.

ebay+paypal=fail

Dazza_Random · 15 Jun 2010 at 21:56

mcast123 said:
Paypal is even worse with their chargebacks, basically any buyer can get their money out your account anytime they want.

I didn't know this!

RobH · 15 Jun 2010 at 22:24

Dazza_Random said:
I didn't know this!

It sounds worse than it is, you pretty much hose your entire PayPal/eBay accounts by doing it so it's pretty much a one shot deal. It does happen but not nearly as much as people think, I have sold several expensive items on eBay without issues such as a MacBook, several iPods and an Xbox 360.