When do you leave feedback?

St2398

RFW wrote: »

A lot of buyers see it as a trust issue, so if you wait to leave feedback it makes them less happy. Obviously that isn't everyone and generally they aren't bothered, but as a seller it does increase buyer satisfaction to leave it first after payment has been received.

If they are going to leave bad feedback they will whenever you leave it, in my experience there is less chance of bad feedback if you leave feedback first, only in the bad old days of retaliatory feedback could it make any kind of difference.

I think you make a good point but I'm still not quite convinced, I've only sold a few records so far and I think out of about 20 or so sales I've received 16 feedbacks and they've all been positive.

I think you've hit the nail on the head with the issue of trust, but (strangely perhaps or it might be I sell more than I buy) I find getting feedback from the seller before I've seen the item to be mildly off putting, as they haven't even read what I've said about it yet.

With the trust thing again, I do try to think of the buyer as a reasonable person and although I've had two slight niggles on sales it's gone ok so far (touch wood).