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Re: Feeback - how worthwhile is it?
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Mon, 15 Jan 2001 00:19:51 GMT
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In lugnet.market.theory, Frank Filz writes:
> Are you talking about feedback in general, or just feedback from a
> sellers perspective on Brickbay (as your responses seem to suggest)? My
> perspective is as a buyer, who plans to sell at some point.
I was mainly thinking about feedback ON Brickbay, but not so much from
either one perspective or another when it comes to buying or selling. I do
take your point about sellers having to worry less, though.
Oddly enough I was just browsing through messages about feedback and
reputation while thinking about what I've seen on Brickbay and I wanted to
see what people think. Looks like I'm hanging off a previous thread though,
which is weird, but I guess that's what I get for just hitting reply once I
found an interesting post - although I had no intention of carrying on what
looked like a huge thread. (Aside - I get in trouble doing this in email
because I never use an address book, I always just find a message from
someone and reply <g>)
> > So I guess what I'm wondering is - what do people do when they see a number
> > next to someone's name? If it is high (say above 50) do they automatically
> > assume "ah, trustworthy person" without reviewing it?
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> On eBay, I always look at feedback before bidding. If the number is
> high, and they have no negatives, I just read the first page, and then
> spot check a few other pages to get a feel for satisfaction. If I see
> negatives comments, I try and read them all, but usually end up bidding
> (many times someone with a high feedback will have a few times when a
> transaction went bad, and it's often easy to see how the buyer got upset
> over nothing - or just wanted to be a jerk). As a seller, I would tend
Yeah, I don't have too much eBay experience, but I see what you mean. And I
certainly know that a random deal or mistake can put a black mark on your
feedback (I have a grey one on mine at Brickbay because of a mistake I made
- oh well). You have to try to take things in context.
> > If it is low (say below 5) do they assume anything? Do they always go read
> > it, thinking maybe the person has to be new, at least to that system?
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> As a buyer, I usually don't bid on eBay if the feedback is this low,
> though occasionally I will give the person the benefit of the doubt
> (especially if those few feed backs have an instance of selling amongst
> them). As a seller, I wouldn't tend to worry much. I just don't have
> that much to lose.
Yeah, I so rarely buy things (and then usually from regulars) that I don't
deal with this much. Maybe it's silly of me but I guess I just assume a
more general level of honest at Brickbay than at eBay, though.
> Who knows what it means. It certainly does sound suspicious, and I guess
> I'd be a little wary of someone who would do that, though they could be
> someone who has done a lot of eBay buying and ran into sellers who gave
> them hassle until they built up a good rating.
I guess that could be one way of looking at it - building it up to build up
a rep as a trustworthy person, just extra fast.
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