Demanding Positive Feedback on Sale site along with the Item description

[venugopal56]

Giving a seller a feedback either positive or negative is the prerogative of the buyer. Sellers cannot make it part of the sale and demand on the sale site that Positive Feedback alone should be given. Buyers are mature enough to take this decision without any coaxing from the sellers. Sellers of course can request in properly worded statements that they would be happy to receive a positive feedback. Here on eBay a number of the sellers are demanding a positive feedback along with details of the '5 stars' the buyers must give. This is unethical and should not come within the purview of the Sellers.

[spl_ind]

Feedback is a matter of choice. Sellers cannot force Buyers to give them a positive feedback. Personally, I always request my Buyers to confirm the receipt of the item and then leave a positive feedback, if possible.

[pimpom_in1]

Everyone, including buyers, wants positive feedback. and it's wrong for sellers to demand it. As the OP put it, it depends on how the seller words his/her request for a positive feedback.

It's easy to see how it can be a headache for genuine sellers when some immature buyer casually leaves a negative feedback without proper cause. Even with the best of intentions by an honest seller, things can go wrong occasionally. So it's not unreasonable for some sellers to say something like "Before leaving a negative feedback, please give us a chance to correct things".

Before eBay disabled sellers' ability to give negative feedback to buyers, many sellers gave rataliatory negative feedback to dissatisfied buyers. Many also openly made threats on their item description page to give retaliatory feedbacks. This is a blatant disregard for all ethical business practice.

Even now, when it's no longer possible for a seller to give negative feedback to a buyer, some sellers are still openly threatening to give retaliatory negative feedback. I make it a point never to buy from such sellers.

[rhtdm.6624]

venugopal56

I agree with you. But you know buyers are taking advantage of feedback system. They blackmails to sellers by saying that they will leave negative if seller not support. Whereas in such cases we found that sellers are not done anything wrong.

I don't think that such buyers are mature.

Regards
rhtdm.6624