Tuesday, 17 June 2008

EBay Feedback - What's the fuss?

With the new changes in the feedback system on EBay sellers seem to be up in arms about not being able to give negatives to buyers but is this really the end of the world?
 
 
On no other major site anywhere can sellers give negative feedback about buyers.  On my shop (www.laughingbeartoys.co.uk) I cannot and indeed would never make any negative comments about my buyers.  On Amazon, buyers give feedback but not sellers so why should EBay remain as the last bastion of feedback on buyers.
 
I can understand why, in the early days of the Internet, sellers needed to have feedback on the buyers.  Everyone was an unknown and everyone was scared about parting with money or goods but now the worries should be , largely, over.
 
Even now sellers will be able to get a view on the reliability of buyers - after all they will be able to get a count of the number of successfully completed sales a buyer has had.
 
Sellers simply need to be careful about how they work and deal with buyers (just like on any other web site in the world) and get on with it!

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