Leaving Feedback
Use the LeaveFeedback API call to more easily leave feedback.
The eBay API includes extensive support both for leaving feedback for other users and for retrieving comments from your own feedback profile.
Hereâs a sample script used to leave feedback for
another user with whom youâve had a transaction
(save it as leavefeedback.pl
):
#!/usr/bin/perl require 'ebay.pl'; $item_id = shift @ARGV; $target_user = shift @ARGV; $comment_type = shift @ARGV; $comment = shift @ARGV; defined($comment) && $comment_type =~ m:^(positive|negative|neutral)$: or die "Usage: $0 item user positive/negative/neutral comment"; my $rsp = call_api({ Verb => 'LeaveFeedback', DetailLevel => 0, ItemId => $item_id, TargetUser => $target_user, CommentType => $comment_type, Comment => $comment}); if ($rsp->{Errors}) { print_error($rsp) } else { print "Status: $rsp->{LeaveFeedback}{Status}"; }
You can leave feedback with this script by calling it from the command line, like this:
leavefeedback.plitem
other_user
positive 'Smooth transaction'
where item
is the item number of the
transaction and other_user
is the user ID
of the user for whom youâre leaving feedback.
Tip
The LeaveFeedback
API call follows the same rules
as does eBay.com, namely that you can leave feedback only for a user
with whom youâre involved in a transaction. When
testing this feature in the Sandbox (see [Hack #82]), youâll need to set up two users and a handful of auctions. If the seller has a feedback rating of less than ...
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