if they never rate, give them a rating on the last day of 60 day period. mishka
On 5/14/05, frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/14/05, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The lesson? Let the other party rate first. > > One of the reasons I stopped eBaying a couple of years ago was the > "politics" involved in these sorts of things. > > The ratings system has become a joke, because if one is victimized by > a bad transaction, there's a "negative rating chill" insofar as you > don't want retaliatory negatives, even though you've done nothing > wrong. > > And, while your advice is good, Paul, what if they never rate? Then > you're stuck not giving them their negative, and the world doesn't > know that their dealing with a raving a**hole. Kind of defeats the > whole idea of ratings, no? > > The ones I love are those that hit you with the "pre-emptory strike" > negative. That happened to my sister and I when we were selling > photographs on eBay. Someone wanted to back out of a transaction, but > rather than ask us (we'd have allowed her, grudgeingly), she hits us > with a negative rating, saying that we didn't answer her e-mails after > the transaction closed, and so she treated the deal as dead. > > Of course, that wasn't true, as we in fact contacted her initially > within hours of the end of the auction, and it was she who didn't > contact us in return. > > But, what could we do? Other than stew about our first negative > rating in some 70 deals? > > cheers, > frank > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > >
