Well, I guess that I am bothered by the fact that when there are problems there is no good and immediately available way to show that someone went out of their way to make it right. I consider a neutral transaction to be one where I hand over the money and the seller hands over the merchandise in good condition. Nothing wrong. Nothing special. Just what everyone should expect.

Someone pointed out that Ebay now labels transactions as seller or buyer. I checked and it does now so label. But! It still does not separate those into categories where I can see immediately how the person works, that is: Buyer 100%, seller 85%. Such would immediately tell me I would want to sell to the person but not buy from them.

Oh well, there is no question that Ebay could be improved, but it is not as bad as the doomsayer's claim, which was the point I was trying to make in the first place.

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Chris Brogden wrote:


On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, graywolf wrote:


And as far as Ebay's feedback it is already BS because 90+% of transactions
should be rated neutral: e.g. no problems, no complaints, but nothing special.


Just to jump in here... to my mind, if I purchase an item off eBay and it
arrives in the advertised condition, with reasonable shipping times and
costs, and I feel like I received what I expected to receive, that's a
positive transaction for me.  Different people have different levels of
expectation.

chris



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