Sellers and buyers alike can encounter disputes, returns, reedback, abuse, a namesless instinct that they have encounterede a foam-spattering booby who might do anything.
A major difference is that the buyer can read feedback from people like himself, and stude the listing for sigbs of craftiness or weirdness. The buyer can be dropped into a transaction in the twinkle of a twinkle. SWo they have the blocks to compensate.
A few run up BBLs of hundreds, sometimes just for asking questions before buying. It is probably a chest-beating exercise, aimed at acquiring self-respect in a threatening world. But you can consider it a form of buyer protection.
How many sellers always block for bad feedback, or any other reason, is one of the great mysteries of ebay. Most buyers neg sellers or use the MBG in a small proportion of their transactions. It doesn't take that many good transactions to outweigh the loss on a bad one. "I got neggeed because I goofed" (which is rumoured to happen on ebay), can cause a seller to do the calculation and hope for repeat business he can get right.
You should be careful about negging for late delivery, and look for firm indications that Effort Deficience Syndrome on the part of the seller was the cause.
As to whether there was anything you could do after feedback was left, , there certainly was, as long as you didn't leave it too late. The seller can put in a formal feedback revision request, which you could then agree.
He might then agree to remove a block, especially if you suggested the revusion when he didn't know about it.
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