02-05-2008, 08:12 PM
So most agree that the feedback system was broken but it seems ebay went a bit too far in trying to address the problem.
Although I'm not quite sure that it won't fix the problem. Problem sellers generally do retaliate and this prevents them from doing so. If someone is a problem buyer just a handful of times, their account is likely to get removed by ebay after complaints so leaving them negative doesn't really matter anyway.
Perhaps a better option would be to have sellers and buyers rate each other on very specific questions.
-Was payment prompt?
-Was buying/selling a hassle?
-Was the item in the condition described?
-Was the shipping time as expected?
-Did the seller charge a fair shipping price?
Although I'm not quite sure that it won't fix the problem. Problem sellers generally do retaliate and this prevents them from doing so. If someone is a problem buyer just a handful of times, their account is likely to get removed by ebay after complaints so leaving them negative doesn't really matter anyway.
Perhaps a better option would be to have sellers and buyers rate each other on very specific questions.
-Was payment prompt?
-Was buying/selling a hassle?
-Was the item in the condition described?
-Was the shipping time as expected?
-Did the seller charge a fair shipping price?
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth