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If I'm a buyer and have paid for an item according to the sellers parmeters then why doesn't the seller immediately leave positive feedback. The buyer has fulfilled his end of the transaction, right?

It seems sellers wait for the buyer to leave positive feedback and then they will reciprocate. As a buyer it feels like the seller has you over a barrell, you leave feedback and then I will. It should be the other way around.

In the old feedback system if the seller left a positive and then the buyer got the item and was not happy and left a negative, there was a provision for the seller to leave a response to the negative. Made good sense to me.

Buyers have got leary and I don't blame them. I won the auction, paid for the item, those are my obligations, leave me feedback. Sellers don't like that game, they hold you down and will only leave feedback once they have received a positive, it's wrong IMHO.