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Originally Posted by Ayla_SquareTurtle
Buyer's remorse is not a valid reason to leave neg feedback. Furthermore, feedback is supposed to be a representation of your overall experience with the other party, not just whether or not they paid you.
When I was an ebay seller, I left neg feedback in return for buyers who left me neg feedback for no good reason. I was not only justified in doing so, but I was also following the original purpose of the feedback system. It's not my problem, as a seller, if someone doesn't know their own dress size, decides that green doesn't actually look good in their living room, or their kid doesn't like the video game they bought for their birthday. If you leave me a neg for some stupid reason like that, it means that my overall experience with you was negative and my feedback to you should reflect that.
Of course, ebay has completely abandoned the principals of honesty and transparency that made it popular in the first place, so they removed the sellers' ability to defend themselves. At ebay, the buyer is always right, even when they're a thief, a liar, or a scammer.
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Whatever the reason for the buyer to have left negative feedback, legitimate reasons or not is irrelevant.
What is relevant is that a lot of sellers withhold feedback until they receive positive feedback from the buyer regardless of the buyers role in the transaction, good, bad, or indifferent.
Even if they deserve the buyers negative feedback, and the buyer acted accordingly, they will still wait to leave negative feedback for the buyer because they want negative feedback WITHDRAWN.
It's far more likely to get withdrawn when both of them (not just the seller) want to get the negative feedback off their score record.
It's a simple trick/way/method for sellers to maintain a positive feedback score without having to do too much damage control when they are left negative feedback. Once the seller has withdrawn the feedback, a lot of times that is all the seller has to do from that point on, no refund, no return, etc.