"William Sommerwerck" wrote in message
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When he got my cashier's check (Monday), he raised the eBay "Payment
Received" flag, and -- get this -- immediately left positive feedback! A man
after my own heart!

Good man.

I agree with you that it's a stupid game that sellers play whereby they only
give *you* feedback if you first give it to them.

The other incredibly poor practice I see are the sellers who outright state
the your leaving them negative feedback will result in their leaving *you*
negative feedback -- regardless of the circumstances! If I were eBay, I'd
immediately kick out anyone who'd claim something like that, as it's an
obvious attempt to get unhappy customers to just shut up... borderline
extortion, really.

I have something like 3 negative feedbacks on eBay, and 2 of the 3 were from
sellers that I left negatives for because they shipped me a different product
than what was shown in their ads. One said, "We shipped you a newer version,
why are you unhappy?" (Because the older version was a different shape and
color that I needed!); the other said, "Oh, sorry, it's an old photo; we'll
update them." And they give me negative feedback? Incredible.

(The 3rd negative was "deserved" on my part, though -- I'm not quite an
angel... :-) )

---Joel