Edited sentence: A further abuse of this is that some sellers deliberately withhold feedback so that if a customer is not satisfied with a purchase, no matter how legitimate their reason is, the seller will then use the feedback for malicious retaliation against the buyer, intentionally damaging their feedback score and reputation, and thus, thier buying and selling ability, as buyers and seller both often rely on the feedback score indeciding whether or not to do business with a particular individual.A growing trend among the sellers is to hold feedback hostage.Ebay consistently refuses to exercise proper basic responsibility over this and other feedback abuses.Even though the buyer paid promptly, the seller refuses to leave feedback.Feedback abuse: