After a few years of arms length fiddling I decided to jump back in and sell a few things on eBay.
It seems that certain things have changed?
You see, I sold an item to some bloke who took almost 3 weeks to pay up. After the first week of waiting I emailed to find out what was going on and he informed me that for some reason his eCheque went loco and he had no idea why.
Today, I posted the item so it was feedback time!
Because of the problems with the sale I decided to leave NEUTRAL feedback. However, when I tried to add the fact that there had been problems with the sale and therefore NEUTRAL feedback seemed the right choice I was barraged with an eBay tutorial on why I shouldn’t do this?
I also found this nugget of information that goes some way to explain why NEUTRAL feedback is seen as the next worst thing to a Nazi Fox Hunter:
NEUTRAL FEEDBACK SHOULD NEVER BE GIVEN (FIRST) – sellers generally prefer NO FEEDBACK whatsoever to Neutral or Negative. Neutral is generally considered to be a “faux negative”.
