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You run into some pretty strange stuff on Ebay

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So I make a purchase on The Worlds Garage Sale, pay instantly, and then receive the following message from seller:

"Hi,

Many thanks for your order, which has now been despatched to Ebay's global shipping hub. Ebay will in due course be contacting you regarding any customs duties/fees and will provide you with onward tracking details.

Please let us have your positive feedback and we will then give you positive feedback also.

Regards."

I mean, here I am, the customer; I have already met my obligations in this matter; it remains to be seen how the seller will perform..........and they want seal the deal with a round of bartering over the matter of positive feedback.

I just struck me as absurd.

Wayne
 
blufinz52
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I would consider responding to the seller with, and I'm paraphrasing, "That's not how it works."
 
Aroxx
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If you like my post, I will like your post back. Then I will edit my post to deliver my actual response.
 
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Aroxx Aroxx
If you like my post, I will like your post back. Then I will edit my post to deliver my actual response.
I liked your post and am expecting a like in return or I will unlike it.
 
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I liked your post and am expecting a like in return or I will unlike it.
Done. I can’t afford to lose these likes. I hear you can cash them out later.
 
tennjed
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It is kind of funny. I remember, years ago, the big push was on "engagement" with the customer. I quickly became apparent to me that there are quite a few out there that have a hard time making a distinction between "engagement" and entanglement. The latter is never a good thing, in my experience.
 
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I take it to mean when you receive the item, and if you are happy with it and the service, leave positive feedback and they will do the same. I've had similar requests in the past. Better to have them engaged with you rather than having them go dark. Relax and, if you are in the US, crack open a couple of Bud Lights.
 
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Often sellers beg for positive feedback and then don't bother doing the same even though everything was done right. Thanks a lot in chinese.
 
river rat
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Wish eBay had feedback for there crappy Ebay's global shipping it sucks a package was stuck for 7 days in Salt Lake City a 6-hour drive from me before being passed on to USPS there shipper who gets it from Europe to the USA sucks balls. It's a lackluster service. Pitney-Bowes shipping sucks it's what eBay uses.
 
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Evitzee Evitzee
crack open a couple of Bud Lights.

Any beer that has 'light', or 'lite' on the bottle/can, shouldn't be called beer.
 
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Evitzee Evitzee
I take it to mean when you receive the item, and if you are happy with it and the service, leave positive feedback and they will do the same. I've had similar requests in the past. Better to have them engaged with you rather than having them go dark. Relax and, if you are in the US, crack open a couple of Bud Lights.
Or have a handful of M&M’s, but apparently they aren’t sexy enough anymore.
 
Jones in LA
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It's a form of extortion and not acceptable. Exactly the same thing happened on my very first Uber ride, way back when Uber was a very new thing. I'm sure the driver saw that I had zero rides and zero feedback, so he said: "This is how it works on Uber: You give me five stars and I give you five stars". It struck me immediately as a veiled threat -- to rate me poorly if I rate him poorly (which I did regardless, because he took 15 minutes to reach me from a location only two blocks away, and I had a plane to catch). I reported my experience to Uber's Customer Service dept and they responded within five minutes to my e-Mail, apologizing profusely and promising some form of censure for the driver, up to termination of his contract.
 
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I got busy and have not bought anything for a few weeks. eBay sends email reminders that you have feedback to complete.

The whole feedback thing, made me go off eBay for years. It is completely meaningless. Any real feedback gets treated as a personal attack. Like how everyone gets a trophy or award for participating.
 
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sheepdoll sheepdoll
I got busy and have not bought anything for a few weeks. eBay sends email reminders that you have feedback to complete.

The whole feedback thing, made me go off eBay for years. It is completely meaningless. Any real feedback gets treated as a personal attack. Like how everyone gets a trophy or award for participating.
I don’t mind it. I usually have a stock saved reply of “just as described, thanks again!”.
 
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Not shitting on this particular thread... but let's frame this folks -- this by comparison to the early days of eBay is mere child's play.
Have we become so jaded that we have all conveniently forgotten the "die by positive/negative review hellscape" that was early eBay?
I certainly can't be the only bloke here who crafted, then drafted, then edited - if digital ink came in quarts there wouldn't have been enough at times - 50 character rebuttals to a razor sharp perfection that would cut wet paper left in a Louisiana swamp to precise geometry shapes for assholes either one town over or all the way across the globe... and then slammed "Send" with the anticipation & warm glow of a 15 year old ninth grader about to go to a movie with the designated school "slut".
 
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Yeah, eBay feedback means nothing. It's not like if you left negative feedback they'd get eBay to remove it. Happens all the time. EBay just cares about sales so they can get their commission and that means all the sellers have to have good feedback. That means they have to actively delete negatively feedback because there's no way all those sellers are actually that good. Besides, I've gotten tired of belong constantly reminded I have feedback to leave for a seller, leafing feedback and vetting nothing in return. My policy, even though I hardly buy anything from eBay anymore bedside of the cesspool its become, is to not leave feedback for them (as the seller) unless they leave it for me first (as the buyer). I'll even shoot them a message explaining why some times but really, I just don't look at eBay any longer for deals.

As a seller - never, ever on eBay - I leave appropriately feedback as soon as the buyer fulfills their side of the deal. I can only hope they do the same and fortunately they have.
 
tennjed
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Evitzee Evitzee
I take it to mean when you receive the item, and if you are happy with it and the service, leave positive feedback and they will do the same. I've had similar requests in the past. Better to have them engaged with you rather than having them go dark. Relax and, if you are in the US, crack open a couple of Bud Lights.
Thank you for the moderating feedback. I agree, I could go comatose and figure out a way to see the seller's comment as a positive. However, I have already identified the positive in the experience. As I read the response from seller, I was momentarily allowed to recall my beloved, but long deceased grandfather:...."Ha! Jackass!."

As for the Bud Light..........I've always been a Miller High Life guy. And yes, I will probably pop a couple of tops on this gray, cold day. Maybe watch some Gunsmoke. 😀
 
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river rat river rat
Wish eBay had feedback for there crappy Ebay's global shipping it sucks a package was stuck for 7 days in Salt Lake City a 6-hour drive from me before being passed on to USPS there shipper who gets it from Europe to the USA sucks balls. It's a lackluster service. Pitney-Bowes shipping sucks it's what eBay uses.
That is still much better than hanging in German customs for 4 weeks.
I think it's a good service from ebay - keeps any problems with customs away from you, no overpriced "service fees" from DHL, no customs delay etc. But might depend on the location of the shipping hub.
 
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…with the anticipation & warm glow of a 15 year old ninth grader about to go to a movie with the designated school "slut".
I was simply exploring my sexuality and expressing myself- and I was a fan of the cinema,
 
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I was simply exploring my sexuality and expressing myself- and I was a fan of the cinema,

For teen males it's the only reason Cinema exists.
 
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