I know that many sellers will withhold posting feedback on a buyer until the buyer has posted feedback on them. The purpose of this is to maintain the ability to post a negative feedback in response to any less than postive feedback posted by the buyer. I have mixed feelings about this. After all, once I’ve made a timely payment, my part of the transaction is complete. I’ve fulfilled my obligations, and, strictly speaking, the seller should post a positive feedback on me. However, I also understand why some sellers would feel more comfortable waiting until the buyer has indicated he/she is satisified with the transaction before leaving the feedback.

What I don’t understand is why the seller would never bother leaving feedback at all. When I am considering bidding on an item, I will check the timeliness and quantity of feedback that seller has left for others. If the seller shows a trend of not bothering to leave feedback, I’ll often move on to another seller who does.

Personally, when I’m selling, I leave favorable feedback as soon as the bidder has paid.

When someone doesn’t leave feedback in a timely manner, basically all you can do send a reminder, respectfully requesting them to leave feedback. If they can’t be bothered with it, let it go. If you pester them, you might just get the kind of feedback you don’t want!

It might also pay to be proactive. Enclose a handwritten thank you note with the items you ship. In the note, request that the bidder leave a postive feedback if they were satisfied with the auction. You can find an example thankyou note here.

I sent them a feedback reminder a few days ago, but nothing still.

I have left feedback for them (perhaps I should have waited) already…

Is this a normal waiting time? Am I doing something wrong?

thanks so much