[ilcl75]

A lot of sellers will not leave feedback for their buyers until the buyers leave feedback first. To them, that means the transaction is complete because they know you have received your item and are either satisfied or not with it. Not just when they pay for the item.

Having been a seller before, I can tell you that if you leave feedback the second someone pays for something, you leave yourself open. If you end up with some asshat that didnt read your listing right, they get their item as described in the listing, etc. Then they don't email you first, etc. to try to work something out and decide that they are just going to leave you negative feedback.

You now have absolutely no repercussions for their actions. Whereas if they left you negative feedback along the lines of "Not what was listing, misled buyer, etc." you can then leave feedback for them "Buyer didnt read listing carefully, did not email me to discuss options before posting feedback". Usually after something like this, the buyer will then think about what they did and you go through ebay and have the negative feedback mutually withdrawn. Had you (as the seller) just left positive feedback in the beginning when they paid, you would be stuck with unjustified negative feedback and very few ways of redeeming yourself.

Also, as shitty as this sounds you have to remember that no one (buyer or seller) is obligated to leave feedback at all on any transaction. Its a courtesy to your fellow trading partner.

Some sellers just do too much business to leave a personal feedback remark for every transaction, unless they have some kind of autobot feedback program. Then, at least, you get a generic feedback and it adds to your score overall.