Is it even possible to leave negative feedback on Reverb?

One solution is to leave a positively negative review, hit the positive review toggle and a negative comment. Not sure if it will work with reverb but it has worked with other sites. I’ll bet the new owners are to cheap to really review the reviews.

Yeah I just get sick of places like eBay constantly reminding me I haven’t left reviews, it was 3 screws sent from China damn it.

We live in a cult of toxic positivity when the truth is nothing can be exemplary if nothing is deplorable.

I won’t sell on Reverb, mostly because of how the majority of the buyers these days can’t read. Buying I ask a ton of questions and my offers reflect the seller’s answers and market value. On a power amp a seller accused me of being “ a low balling Piker” so I replied with a history of recent sales from 4 different platforms ( really easy because I was the buyer of all but 1) and my tech estimate to repair based on his exact words. 2 weeks later he asked if my offer was still on the table, I grabbed it.

Where the stupid factor comes into play. Before sending it down the street. Popped the lid and found a Molex connector wasn’t seated. Same model of amp made an offer because “ one channel didn’t play as loud as the other”, hooked it up mesured output with the exact same speaker using a tone generator and pink noise and AudioTools. Yeah at a couple of different settings one channel was down 1-1.5 dB pretty standard and well why if your matching levels you use a meter not pot position.

If one more seller tells me “ there are 3 listed higher than mine”
Yeah please look at sold prices and realize what reality is.

Right now, I am having to sell on Reverb because gear on the forum sits and sits and sits. Sucks, but stuff has got to go! So far so good with my last 10 sales on Reverb.

so will Venmo. (which is a paypal company)

Man it would be nice to find some decent local sellers, here in KC you have to weed through all the stuff returned to the GC / MF distribution center. 15 years ago they put it in a outlet now it’s on GS and the issues are described well.
I do mis the days of $8.00 Nady mics, they made great donor bodies.

If you do eBay, always state "as-is, no refunds" in the description.

If something goes sideways and the buyer wants a refund, first thing eBay will do (besides taking the money out of your account) is ask you if you sold it "as-is".

You make some very good points!

It's a dichotomy.  If you're a seller, even if you don't specifically state that an item has a warranty or return policy, Ebay will essentially make you responsible for satisfying the buyer's claim and force you to accept returns and then refund the item no matter the state of the return.  There's been plenty of times where sellers would get a "not as described" or "doesn't work" return only to find out that someone had tampered with the item prior to returning.  As a seller, you're left with zero recourse.  Ebay will side with the buyer almost every time as they see "sellers" as businesses and assume they can absorb a certain amount of loss.  On the other hand, as a buyer, you just expect the seller to make something right immediately because that's how we've been conditioned to think.  As a seller, I would look at every single piece of information the buyer is telling me and try to figure out if it's legit or not.  Many buyers suffer remorse and want to return, but it's not a valid reason to return, so they say it's "broken" a lot of times.  Sometimes it IS broken and you need to know more info to see where it was broken..  In shipping?  Did the buyer break it?  Buyers getting irate at the most simple of questions is a big red flag..  

I'd say that about 80% of my sales on ebay have been fine, but that last 20% can be a real hassle.  I sold a camera on there once which I knew was working perfectly because I had just used it on a trip and the seller waited until the 29th day of the 30 day return window to file a claim.  Ebay took the money out of my account without warning and then started a return on my behalf before I even knew about it.  Once I actually spoke to a representative, they said that my listing didn't specifically state "no returns or no refunds" so that meant that I was open to returns and refunds.  The camera I got back was the same camera, but the main board inside had been changed with one that was water damaged.  The buyer clearly had a damaged camera and used mine for parts and then returned it with the damaged parts.  Ebay didn't care because I didn't have pictures of the INTERNAL BOARDS to prove they had been changed.

Another instance I was selling some speakers.  Same deal as before, the 29th day of the 30 day return window I get a request for refund due to "not as described" for the reason of "doesn't work".  I also got charged a 25$ fee from the buyer's credit card company for reversal of charge or something.  I went back and forth with Ebay about it and they finally agreed that it might be fraud since the buyer never replied to any of their correspondence by their deadline.  They also told me that credit card companies have the final say in ALL financial matters and that if the CC company didn't agree it was fraud, I would NEVER get my money back.  Thankfully after 180 days, the credit card company refunded my initial money back but maintained that I OWED them the chargeback fee for their work to refund my money.

These are just a few of the BS reasons I always put "AS-IS" and "NO REFUNDS", "NO RETURNS" on everything I sell regardless of how perfect the item condition is.