posted on October 25, 2000 07:45:00 AM
I have saked ebay to do away with this.I don't think its fair to us that we can not read their feed back.What do you fellow ebayers think? [email protected]
posted on October 25, 2000 07:52:51 AM
Actually, its very "fair" to allow people to make their feedback private, in that everyone has the same opportunity.
Whether it is a "good" practice that makes ebay a better, or worse, place to do business is another question. Personally, I think it makes it a worse place, and I "vote with my feet" by refusing to buy from sellers with private feedback.
posted on October 25, 2000 10:04:11 AM
Interestingly I just got burned by a private fb bidder. I always cancel bids on my auctions that have a rating less than zero. I don't care if someone has a neg or 2 or 3, depending on their actual number, I have some myself but have an fb rating over 1100...and depending on if I can read the comments, but if they start out with zero and go into the negative from there, I don't want to take a chance. I've just decided to do the same with private fb bidders...I had a bidder with private, clicked on and could see the numbers... 50 or so + with a couple of - , didn't cancel the auction... once it ended and I sent EOA I never heard from them, no money, no nuttin, deadbeat. I now wish I could have seen the comments by the negs and will now cancel private fb bidders. Private fb actually raises more questions than negs so if they're going to the trouble of making fb private, why not just start from scratch with a new fresh name?
posted on October 25, 2000 05:36:17 PM
What many private-feedback buyers and sellers are "hiding" is that they deal in adult items and prefer to keep that private. I've sold to several folks with good, but private, feedback, and never had a problem. Private feedback doesn't necessarily mean a past as a deadbeat or a lousy seller.
posted on October 25, 2000 06:48:13 PM
But you can just as easily pull up bidder history which will tell you everything that the buyer is bidding on, whether their feedback is private or not, so why bother raising eyebrows by 'hiding' adult bidding history by making your fb private when it is in the bidder history anyway?
posted on October 25, 2000 08:36:01 PM
Have you checked out Disney's auction site? It still have a seller, and Disney's feedback is private!!! Doesn't keep people from bidding there.
I myself will never make my feedback hidden. I would also not buy from a seller who had hidden feedback.
posted on October 25, 2000 08:45:56 PM
Before ebay changed it so that the number is not visable I took my feedback private for about four days.
I had someone (who as far as I know I'd never dealt with) leave a really horrible negitive (foul language, racist). I knew that ebay would remove it, but it was taking awhile and I didn't want my buyers to see it and think I had done something wrong. As soon as ebay removed the feedback I made my feedback public again.
