As a seller, I only leave fb after I receive fb that everything is ok. As a buyer, I leave fb as soon as I receive item and am happy with it. Seems to work best that way.
I am currently dealing with a confused (to be polite) buyer from Taiwan. He, up until recently, has been bidding high on a huge number of jazz cds and only paying for ones he feels like I guess. He has been suspended by ebay but still needs to settle up with 3 of my 7 auctions that he won. I'm pulling my hair out trying to work with him but something seems lost in translation. I first reported him for invalid bid retraction. He would bid high to see were things were at then retract for wrong bid entered without rebidding correct amout immediately, 37 bid retractions in the last 6 months! What a pain in the arse!