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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor, post: 241750, member: 5454&quot;]This subject is where feedback gets to be a grey area.&nbsp; If negative feedback isn&#039;t left for fear of retaliation</p><p>then what good is feedback anyway?&nbsp; I have had only one buyer leave negative feedback many years ago.</p><p>One negative in many years.&nbsp; Do you know what that did to my rating?&nbsp; I am still only 98.7% after 75 positives and many years with just that one negative.&nbsp; I have 76 transactions.</p><p>&nbsp; The situation was a buyer in Canada who had a sniper program set on one of my auctions.&nbsp; My bid description clearly said &quot;No sales to Canada&quot; and clearly said &quot;No Paypal&quot;.</p><p>My item was selling already and at the last second this Canadian&#039;s sniper program won my auction.</p><p>He wanted me to sign up for Paypal so he could pay that way.&nbsp; He wanted me to ship to Canada.</p><p>Obviously he did not even read my item description.&nbsp; When I said I wouldn&#039;t sign up for Paypal,&nbsp; he e-mailed the second highest bidder and wanted to sell the item to him.&nbsp; This is without the Canadian ever paying for the item or even having it in his posession!&nbsp; Then he sent me nasty e-mail using profanity.</p><p>So after 2 days of negotiating that got nowhere, I left negative feedback.&nbsp; I warned him that I had no choice if he wouldn&#039;t settle.&nbsp; And I even bent my rules and offered to ship to Canada for him.</p><p>Anyway, he immediately retaliated with negative feedback accusing me of &quot;crying like a baby&quot;.</p><p>This one experience ruined my 100% rating.&nbsp; And it is still affecting my rating.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know if it will ever clear up.</p><p>So the moral of the story is- watch out before leaving negative feedback.&nbsp; Retalitory negatives, even if untrue, can ruin your rating.&nbsp; All this is to clarify that in most cases neg. feedback isn&#039;t left.&nbsp; Which brings me to my other point- what good is feedback anyway?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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