So true. It's just not worth it. There are always ways to recoup your losses. Negative feedback is ostensibly to warn others to a bad seller. Number one...I look out for number one. I don't care if someone else gets taken by the same guy.
Number two, I do the research and unless I see 100% feedback...I don't buy from that seller. To me 98% is just as bad as 0%. But that's just me.
That is your right, but it is completely unfair to the vast majority of sellers. I have a 100% rating, but I had a buyer mark me down on the detailed mark area when he received a CD without shrink wrap - even though my listing SPECIFIED it was without shrink wrap. "Oh, I guess I didn't read that part." Duh! My Amazon rating was dropped by one buyer leaving a neutral rating with the comment "Satisfactory". WTF? I wrote (politely) to ask if there had been a problem with his order and he never answered. If a seller has a 98% rating it's usually (not always) because he had the misfortune to have a buyer who was unreasonable - and sellers are no longer even ALLOWED to leave bad feedback for a buyer.