Originally Posted by Diomed

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acted accordingly, they will still wait to leave negative feedback for the buyer because they want negative feedback WITHDRAWN.

It's far more likely to get withdrawn when both of them (not just the seller) want to get the negative feedback off their score record.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 Once the seller has withdrawn the feedback, a lot of times that is all the seller has to do from that point on, no refund, no return, etc.