posted on September 6, 2000 03:13:55 PM new
This Seller Performance system brings up an interesting question -
If I list 20 items,get bids on 8, and 6 of my "bidders" have phony ID's and proceed to
go the deadbeat route, is it MY fault if I have to relist those 6 items?
Must be. Let's see: I got counted for them the first time, I'm supposed to get one counted off for each of them I "sold", although this seems uncertain, and now, they count again because they really didn't sell the first time. So despite those 6 sales -- no gain.
Hmm. Seems to me I did my part. I listed things people wanted, at a price they would bid on. With that in mind, allow me to propose:
The BIDDER Performance Plan -
Actually, it's real simple. Everytime a bidder wins an auction, he gets a point. If he gets good feedback, he gets another point.
If a seller negs him, he loses a point. If a seller reports him as "deadbeat" (yes - a new rating) he loses two points.
Everyone starts out with a "1" rating, if it falls below zero, bidding priveleges are revoked.
If you really want to clean up the problems on the site, you need to attack both ends of those problems, not just one.
posted on September 7, 2000 09:14:51 AM new
I have been calling for a plan for years that addresses bad bidders. Why dont the auction sites realize that it is the SELLERS who are their customers? The seller choose which site to list at and which fees to pay. But all these sites police the sellers, kick off the sellers and give bad bidders a field day.
