Both myself and my daughter pay promptly for ebay goods, generally using the Paypal facility if available.

We have both noticed the insiduous practise of sellers not responding to prompt payments by leaving postive feedback on receipt of payment.

We no longer leave feedback at all in these cases, even if the goods are ok.

I have tried to alert/complain about this to EBay, endorsing the suggestion of a blind/simultaneous feedback system - but receive neutral responses from them.

I think that the word is out on this problem and that the feedback system will become redundant/obsolete if it it not modified.