Can you post a follow-up to a neutral?
That is the direction that I would go and explain that the buyer indicated that it was a mistake.

Sea-to-sky-games wrote:I'd ignore it, personally, although I know its nice to keep a perfect record. No one is going to care if you have a neutral among 1000+ positives..

Agreed

If you REALLY need to choose, I think a mutual withdrawal is preferrable.

I think the neutral is better than a mutual withdrawn.  The assumption of a mutual withdrawn is that it was initially a negative on each side.

I had this situation as well.  Someone made a mistake and left me a neutral thinking I was someone else.  She was very apologetic and I did the withdrawal.  Personallly, I am glad I did . . .  I would rather have 3500+ feedback and no neturals or negs and a mutual withdrawal.  That makes a grand total of 1 withdrawal on my record, so it hardly appears dodgy to me.

It's hard to accept a neg being left "by mistake". How phuqing stupid can you be, when the very next screen practically screams "ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO LEAVE A NEGATIVE?!?!?!?!?!?!"

Deadlord39 wrote:It's hard to accept a neg being left "by mistake". How phuqing stupid can you be, when the very next screen practically screams "ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO LEAVE A NEGATIVE?!?!?!?!?!?!"

I inadvertantly left someone a neg about  a year ago, although looking at Malc's feedback it appears to be a little bit different situation.  The wrong neg I left was because I was in the process of leaving a deadbeat buyer who used two different IDs to bid on my stuff (14 items total    ) and he never paid for any of it.  The poor buyer who got neged just got caught in the crossfire.  

http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=b ... y&ref=home

I realized my mistake right away and sent the buyer a mutual withdrawl request.  I also left a follow up feedback indicating that the feedback I left was only my own error as well. I'd suggest the same for you Malcolm.  

flying_purple_monkfish wrote:How the hell can you "accidently" leave neutral? it warns you for neutral as well I think.

Personally, I find neutrals to be interesting to read but never offputting. Just post a followup and those who care to read it will and see "ahh, mistake"
Some follow ups are freaking hilarious anyway (like cougs.. ahahahahaha wth?)

Best of luck with that, bummer to lose the perfect score but neutrals aren't particularly devistating at least.

Your goal shouldn't be to have perfect feedback anyway....you are going to be jumping through a lot of hoops for a lot of years and some moron could STILL ding you for no reason.  
  If your feedback is 99%, no one really cares about the few negs or neutrals you might have...as witnessed by the sellers who manage to rack up thousands of sales a month despite numerous bad ratings (but still keeping their rating at 99% or above).  Eventually some dumb ass will come along and spoil everything, no matter how hard to try (whether it be a 1000, 5000, or 10000 feedback, it's gonna happen).

Mike B.

It's sort of a shock and disappointment to lose that perfect rating, no doubt about that. But you'll get over it.

Leave the feedback as-is, request a withdrawal, protest to eBay ... you know what? It doesn't matter at all. Not a single thing will change for you on eBay, either as a buyer or seller.

I've become convinced over the past two years or so that any reasonable eBay feedback means pretty much the same thing to pretty much every eBay user. The incredibly tiny differences — 99.7% with a 500 score versus 99.8% with a 350 score, for example — are meaningless to all but the most ultra-anal-retentive users. Seriously, if eBay feedback really mattered, then dickheads like Cougar would never make a sale.

So, really, your only problem right now is getting over the disappointment of losing that 100% tag. Once you're past that, you'll find that nothing has changed.