People usually appreciate reminders, especially with the exact URL to
do what's requested.
Tom
On Wednesday, August 08, 2001 at 9:33, Daniel J. Mitchell
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote on "RE: [OM] Question about the auction site.," saying..
> > I mean I fulfil my side of the deal by sending a money order
> > promptly after the auction; which I always send with registered post. I,
> > like eBay believe that people are inherently good.
>
> A separate eBay question -- what's the accepted etiquette for leaving
> feedback? In the last half-dozen or so transactions I've done there, the
> order of events has always been the following:
>
> 1. auction ends.
> 2. I send money to seller
> 3. seller sends me stuff
> 4. I leave +ve feedback for seller
> 5. time passes
> 6. I ask seller if they wouldn't mind leaving me feedback
> 7. about 250f the time, seller bothers leaving me feedback.
>
> This feels rather unjust -- I take the risk of sending off money without
> knowing that they'll send me any stuff back, so it seems that they should
> take the risk of leaving me feedback without knowing that I'll do the same.
> I've taken to mailing people saying "goods arrived, let me know once you've
> left feedback and I'll return the favour", but that seems a bit agressive.
>
> It's not really a big deal one way or another, but it rather peeves me that
> I'm "owed" a whole lot of positive feedback; I always leave it for other
> people because, heck, that's the only way you have of knowing what people
> are like -- so why won't they do the same for me?
>
> -- dan
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