Looking for an ebay seller's point of view--

[barrysloate]

No way I would leave negative feedback, but what you might do is leave a positive one with a simple message such as "thank you" and nothing more. That way even if you were a little disappointed with the transaction (you shouldn't be) you can avoid heaping unnecessary praise without hurting his feedback.

[deadballera]

I would still give a positive feedback..and leave the "star" rating alone.

[Kawika]

Your seller seems like a decent sort. A neg or neutral won't rescue humanity; save that for the egregious scumbags. Me, I leave positive feedback for positive transactions; if there's something minor I didn't like I just don't leave FB at all. EBay feedback is such a convoluted crock and ultimately such a meaningless metric that I barely bother with it anymore.

[glchen]

Out of curiosity, what do other think of the following 2 similar situations, where an item is returned because of SNAD, but the seller did not mean to deceive. How would you leave feedback?

(1) Seller will only refund the selling price and not the original cost for seller to ship the card to you.
(2) Seller will only refund the selling price after a 20% restocking fee and will also not refund the original shipping cost.

In both cases, seller has in listing that they do not accept returns, and you prefer not to open an ebay case because of 50/50 chance of success. (eg., card in CSA holder)

[Tsaiko]

I recently bought a dead cell phone battery on ebay and when I first contacted the seller they said he would send out another and I didn't have to send the original back. Two days later they said they were out of stock and weren't getting any more in, but that I could have a store credit. (His auction clearly states that there are no refunds)

Since there was nothing I wanted in their store, I asked for them to make an exception and that's where the communication ended from their side. I sent back the original and tried to contact two more times, but they never responded. I filed a claim and stated that if they refunded in full I would leave positive feedback, but if they didn't, I would leave negative feedback.

I was refunded in full and ebay closed the case. I left positive feedback only as "Fast Shipping", which was the only positive truth and left all the other feedback criteria blank. This wasn't about the money, just keeping the seller honest. He had dozens of these batteries for sale when I bought mine and I'm fairly sure he was lying about being out of stock. He had other negative feedbacks on dead batteries too.

Your seller has done at least enough to earn positive feedback, so I'd cut him some slack. My two cents.

[pgellis]

Sounds to me that you thought you were getting a very good buy at $4.99 and when you found out it was a repro, you asked for a refund which the seller complied with.

To me, it sounds like you are bummed that you didn't get a very good buy and now you want to punish the seller. He was a good seller and refunded your money. Enough said.

Give him a break and give him positive feedback for being man enough to refund your purchase price.

[GoldenAge50s]

I just don't understand today's mentality of wanting to crucify a Seller for even the tiniest error, no matter what it is. Maybe it's the way EBay has become that makes us this way.

The Seller did the right thing---There shouldn't even be a question as to wanting to leave a Neg.

There are bad sellers & crooks out there, save the Negs for them! Why try to drive away the ones that do the right thing?

[mintacular]

To what extent are you responsible for bidding on this repto? Seems like you had a clear scan and could've spotted this...

I believe eBay policy is refund + original shipping and not return shipping, if that is the case, then the rules were followed correctly. If you don't want to leave a + fbk then just don't leave any fbk at all but a neutral or negative I would reserve only for fully piss-poor service