Feedback Disappearance

[hamilton434]

Recently I left ( provoked ) negative feedback for a seller because the item I bought from them was badly damaged due entirely to grossly inadequate packing. ( the box was unnecessarily large by at least 5 times the requisite and the "protective" material just thrown in with no attempt to wrap it around the item, far less secure it to remain there)

Quite often I review feedback I've left to consider the possibility that it may not have been entirely accurate. Yesterday I was surprised to see that the above had totally disappeared. Can a seller remove feedback according to his own whim, ie flouting the ebay rules and regulations ?

[pixiesen2012]

I can see a negative in your feedback left for others that mentions bad packing, is this the one you mean, or have left the same negative for a different seller?

[hamilton434]

The feedback that "disappeared" is similar; left for another seller. There's an old saying, "It never rains but it pours", that might be deemed appropriate here in that I should be obliged to account for two instances of very bad packing taking place within such a short "time frame".