[quote name='dv8mad']No, you're exactly right rmb.
The official word from Shrike when he and I "spoke" about this was that negative feedback could be left at the seller's discretion upon non-payment of a sale bid.
He stated very clearly that, just like standard transactions, feedback retaliation would not be tolerated and would be dealt with severely.
Of course, that doesn't mean that we need 50 negatives flying around the trade forums each month. Please try to work things out with your bidder(s) and find a possible resolution to any non-payment situation and use your discretion to determine if you would expect a negative were you on the other side of the situation.
Some people have even asked me about their issues and some things have been weorked out, others have not.
One person received a negative from someone running a dv8mad lowball sale and made my "NO" list due to PMing a comment to the CAG stating that he would only choose to take certain items he had bid on. After the sale running CAG refused to break it in half and asked him to stick to what he had committed to, he then responded by saying that he could not be held to any of his bids.
Unfortunately for him, this is not the case.
For the record, the CAG running the sale did not receive retaliatory feedback, but if he had, it would have been removed.
I hope that sheds a bit more light on the rules.
Now, again, this doesn't mean Sum41 should get a negative flood without being given a chance to pay which is why I linked the two non-paid auctions that I know of in his latest thread. As for my issue, it was seperate and I did not feel it warranted a negative. I did, however, take exception to his slander of my name in his old thread which resulted in my blog posting.[/quote]
I agree, things need to be worked out first. As far as payment for items I recommend an expected payment due date and work out exceptions via pm. If a date is set and payment not recieved use your discretion at leaving negative fb. In sum's case if not recieved by a certain date I'd leave the negative due to past actions.
Doubleeckks game shipped today as well. Worked a trade as well so saved a little there.