Leaving Feedback

[gravelro]

Why is it that some buyers asnd sellers cannot be bothered to leave feedback? I have been with ebay since 2004 and whenever I purchase an item I always have the courtesy to leave the seller feedback, it helps them know that I have received the item, am happy with my purchase and adds to their positive score. When I am buying I always check out the sellers feedback. Also when I am selling I leave the buyer immediate feedback as soon as they pay me, I send an email thanking them for their purchase and ask if they will kindly post feedback when they receive the goods so I can see that they are happy with it. They don't always bother. If every buyer or seller I have had commerse with had left me feedback then my score would be at least a third more than it is. Where have the manners gone to? It takes so little time to do, its like saying thank you to a shop assistant when they hand you the goods. But then a lot of buyers are rude to shop assistants as well!!

[angelah1847]

I always say thank you to the bus driver as I get off the bus.

I always say thank you to the Asda checkout person as I leave.

However I do not see it as discourteous if one of my buyers decides not to leave feedback for me.  I do not take it as a personal slight.

As far as I'm concerned there is no comparison.

Surely you use ebay to buy and sell items, not feedback

[gravelro]

The feedback I always considered to be part of the transaction, or else why have it.
Actually I have given up selling on eBay. Too many people want something for nothing. In the past I sold some of my excess jewellery a d at first I got a respectable price, now I can get better prices by trading in at the local jewellers. Using eBay was a pleasant experience once but now, with no real protection for sellers from unscrupulous buyers I just don't bother, no matter how often eBay keep sending me 'special offers to list items.