Ebay and feedback

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Posted By: Chris

I can't think of any reason a seller would leave negative to a buyer after receiving positive feedback from the buyer. Doesn't make much business sense. I think too much is made of the whole feedback rating. I think most people can look at overall feedback and peoples replies to the negative comments and get a real idea of a persons reliability. I mean, if I see someone that has a lot of neutrals or negs for unusually slow delivery and they have no response to that, I stay away. I use the following rule of thumb for sellers. If they have a total score of 500 or more I look for a positive % of 99.3 or higher and I usually check the feedback if it is less than 99.5. For feedback in the 100 range I don't look at percentage because one neg brings you down to 99.0. I look at the neg and the circumstances and and make my own judgement.