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Re: eBay rip-off artist hides feedback
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lugnet.market.theory
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Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:40:29 GMT
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Mike Stanley wrote:
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> Well, Mr. 6420 decided to hide his feedback.
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> ***
> I have had to hide my eBay feedback, because too many people have
> decided to use feedback as a forum for issues that are irrelevant to
> interactions made directly with me. I reccomend that all eBay
> powersellers such as myself take issue with eBay that users are
> allowed to leave feedback without an item number.
> ***
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> The funny thing is, I TRIED to leave the item number in the feedback
> but because the auction wasn't over the system wouldn't allow it.
Cool. If they hide their feedback, people will be less willing to buy
from them. I read feedback, even when the seller has a large positive
rating. I've decided to to buy from a couple sellers who had large
positive ratings, but had negative feedback which seemed to represent a
real problem, and the seller didn't respond to the feedback. Most of
these seem to be situations where there was slow shipment or other minor
problems, but I see no reason to give my buisiness to slack dealers.
My big question though would be what good reason is there for eBay to
allow hiding feedback? If someone is getting seriously unfairly blasted
with negative feedback, eBay can remove it (and if they really feel the
neutral feedbacks that have been left by Mike, Larry, and others, are an
abuse of the system, they should remove them, and I won't complain. I'll
think less of eBay, but they are arguing a somewhat reasonable point -
it's just too bad they have chosen to limit information). Hiding
feedback is just hiding more information. If you can't see the feedback,
there is no way to evaluate whether it is padded, or if the person has
never sold, or how many problems they have, in essence, a feedback
rating without comments behind it is useless, especially since it's
probably against eBays TOS to contact other customers of the seller
(though I suppose you could ask the seller for references, but we all
know how that goes, and there's no guarantee that they are giving you
references which have actually purchased items from them).
--
Frank Filz
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