Shingen wrote:The feedback system is almost slanted to hurt sellers. Most people who only buy have much less feedback, and generally it doesn't hurt them in bidding on general items, because as long as they pay for it, your cool. Furthermore, they can sacrifice a negative that will give them 1 out of 10 bad to leave you a negative for 1 out of 300 bad; then you look like the ass when selling, because they don't care what happens, but you do.
Xaxaxe wrote:Shingen wrote:The feedback system is almost slanted to hurt sellers. Most people who only buy have much less feedback, and generally it doesn't hurt them in bidding on general items, because as long as they pay for it, your cool. Furthermore, they can sacrifice a negative that will give them 1 out of 10 bad to leave you a negative for 1 out of 300 bad; then you look like the ass when selling, because they don't care what happens, but you do.Too true. As far as feedback goes, there's almost nothing to lose if you're primarily a buyer. A lot of sellers talk tough about screening, blocking, or banning new, less-than-10 rating (or 20 or whatever), or "excessive negative" buyers, but few actually follow through. Especially volume sellers — who has the time to track every bid they're receiving? It's nice to have a long string of positives if you're a buyer, but hardly necessary.On the other hand — as has been pointed out previously — feedback can be crucial to a seller. The combination of the actual rating, the percentage of positives, and the comments themselves are all things that wary potential buyers examine. Reputation is everything in a marketplace where buyer and seller never actually meet in the same physical space.Thus, I can kind of see Dark's point: that non-positive feedback must have felt like a sneak attack. It has the potential to damage his reputation. Maybe I'm not too wild about the language or tone he chose to use in his most recent post, but I do understand the sentiment.
draco76 wrote:I don't leave feedback till they do, unless I buy something...
Terminal_Frost wrote:Its not crucial to sellers either. The Game Emporium among other resellers have proved that point time and time again. If you have an item people want feedback doesnt matter at all.
deimos3428 wrote:draco76 wrote:I don't leave feedback till they do, unless I buy something...As a buyer, this bothers me greatly, when sellers hold back feedback until I've given mine...that's not how it's supposed to work, folks. Refresher course for those who may have forgotten:Once you've received payment, you should be leaving me positive feedback. If you don't get paid, or if payment is delayed, then fine, you still have the auction items, feel free to dump negative feedback on my head. (I really can't figure out why anyone would ever use neutral.)Then I wait until my package arrives, and I provide you with your feedback. I look the item over, and if it is as described, it's positive. If the item never shows, or it's crumpled into a ball and stuffed into a dirty sock with a stamp on it, or something equally negligent, or whatever, damn right you're getting negative feedback, as you should. If there's ever a problem, on either end, you should of course attempt to communicate before leaving your feedback. In short, don't assume all buyers are jerks, or that we don't care about our feedback...
draco76 wrote:but back to more of the topic of this post if I was dark I wouldn't have been so quick to loose Aneoth as a customer.... He appears to be a serious collector, and he said he was SORRY! what more could a guy ask for? I'm sorry too dark