Re: 14mm DAs on eBay (was RE: Last rant, for a while, maybe)

[Gonz]

The hidden feedback is a good idea.  Sellers also have the problem, not 
just buyers.  If they give honest bad feedback to a buyer who was slow 
to pay, or gave the seller a hard time, then the buyer might get revenge 
by posting bad feedback in return, even if the seller completed his end 
of the bargain perfectly.  Sellers with 100% pos feedback are especially 
vunerable to intimidation by unscrupulous buyers.

rg
Dan wrote:
Yes this is a problem.  I am in this situation myself as a buyer of sub-standard
goods.  I think a hidden feedback system would be better where the feedback was
only revealed once both parties had submitted their feedback.  If only one
party submitted then after a certain time limit the feedback would be revealed
and the other party could no longer leave feedback (to prevent revenge).

On Aug 31, 2004, at 10:30 PM, Alan Chan wrote:

I think the eBay feedback system has a serious flaw. Sellers have not
been forced to leave +ve feedback once the payment was received and
confirmed. This puts the buyers in a disadvantage situation when
things gone wrong. Often the buyers won't leave -ve feedback because
the sellers might just do the same as revenge.
Alan Chan
http://www.pbase.com/wlachan