Daftest feedback - what's yours?

[lighting_signs_and_vintage]

+VE "Christmas present so unable to comment yet"

Aside from the fact you can't now change the feedback, shouldn't be rating the content (if that's what they mean?), and should be checking for damage before you give a blu-ray to someone in 2 and a bit months and your time to return has ran out, fair enough 😂

[Anonymous]

Haha guessing you haven't seen the ones that put a life story in the feedback box,

Few weeks ago I read one that explained they had been to the doctors, went into detail about the appointment and their Fibromyalgia, missed their delivery and had to rebook, the comment was huge and at the end 6 words to say they happy with their item.

Feedback like you mention and the allowing of such long feedback results in seller feedback profiles looking silly and bloated,  it used to be useful and a quick way to get an idea of if the seller is reliable and are they honest with their item descriptions etc

[lighting_signs_and_vintage]

Yes and I've also had the ones where it's positive but they can't help but have some rambling, snidey mini-moan, ending in 'but have decided to keep it anyway' or something similar, especially when their moans were either implicitly included in the description, or the item was stated to be in an unknown or untestable condition.

[hudsonsclothes]

I seen a funny one (not on my page) that said something along the lines of, "Amazingly fast delivery, it arrived before I even ordered it" which tickled me

[tommystrezures]

I had one a couple of years back comparing Royal Mail and the slow delivery of their item to Haemarroids and stinky cheese, and that it wasn't on.  It got promptly removed, but the defect remained... Go figure!!! 😁

[lucy_farmer]

I remember fron *years* ago (about 15 yrs I think) there was a buyer who would + feedback with the wording 'Arrived so fast I had to duck!'

Made me smile 😁

[lucy_farmer]

My daftest was a neutral with the wording 'haven't tested it yet'....... my (perfectly polite) reply was ' perhaps you could have left feedback *after* you'd tested it? 🙂   (the item was a very old bit of audio gear)

Turned out this buyer was obviously a bit daft as he was removed from the site (and his feedbacks! thankfully) a couple of years ago. They musta done quite a lot of silly things to actually get removed from ebay.....

[hudsonsclothes]

🤣🤣🤣

There was one that was a negative that simply said "item was great, but I left you this negative to remind you that life isn't fair"

[the-nutwood-collection]

When I was just a buyer I got a feedback 'Paid within two minutes of the auction ending!!  Star Buyer!!'

At the time, I was bemused.  Why wouldn't I pay immediately?  What was unusual about paying quickly?

Now I'm a seller and I read these boards about non-paying auction bidders, I realise why the seller was pleased.

[robbtyke132010]

Good topic - but even better are buyer's requests.

Once I had this response to a sale: "Can you please put Xmas stamps on the envelope" - the request was for an item bought in July.......

[the-nutwood-collection]

My buyer requests are generally 'This order is urgent.  I need it by tomorrow'.  Postage selected?  Freepost 2nd Class.

[hudsonsclothes]

I had this one earlier, probably my weirdest question from a buyer 😅 I did tell them it was the weirdest opening question i'd had to date and they said there's nothing wrong with being weird haha

[lighting_signs_and_vintage]

Yes, but it's BYO time machine.

[mrs-trebus16]

I had to bin them as they smelled of cigarettes was a negative I recieved way back in about 2006

What was the item? A pair of glass drinking mugs in metal holders

What went through my mind at the time:

How does glass and metal smell?

Why didn't they ask to return them?

Why didn't they ask for a refund?

Why didn't they wash the mugs?

Hang on - I don't smoke!

[nigel_paul_wright7557]

I once saw feedback "Great product" with a neg !

[lucy_farmer]

'.........Hang on - I don't smoke!'

Ah.... did you wrap them in one of those grey plastic postage bags?  about 15 years ago or so, those bags could make anything smell dreadful. ...bit of a stink kicked up about it at the time...😏

[cooky561]

Someone wrote on one of my sales

"I was there when accepted payment and dispatched the item!"

I'm guessing it was a sarcastic comment about how everyone is asked to leave reviews before they actually have time to use the product these days.

[lucy_farmer]

'I'm guessing it was a sarcastic comment about how everyone is asked to leave reviews before they actually have time to use the product these days.'

Yeah, my pet peeve is being asked to rate 'what you loved about this item', especially when buying a book or suchlike.

I want to know that the seller is a good 'un, not whether or not somebody enjoyed the book they just bought!

[manyjamjar]

Many years ago someone left a neg saying "Didn't Buy".

[fribblecollectables]

I always interpret my 'as described' feedback to actually mean:

"I didn't read your comprehensive description where you highlighted the signs of usage or minor knocks and damage, not only in the 'Condition Report, but also in the 'Seller' s Notes' of the Item Specifiics. You then repeated these details within the main body of your description right at the start. However I didn't read this, I merely paced a bid solely on what I saw in the main picture and didn't look at the other pictures showing any of these issues in close up. I am keeping the item but I am not totally satisfied with it".