Random positive feedback for everyone!
August 5th, 2008 | by mbhunter |If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
I logged into my eBay account and realized that I hadn’t left feedback for some of my recent buyers. I was poking around the feedback section, which had changed a bit from what I remember.
Since sellers can no longer leave neutral or negative feedback for buyers, my job is a bit easier, I suppose. But those thoughtful folks at eBay really have made it a no-brainer. Now there’s an option to store up to ten feedbacks, and randomly apply the stored feedbacks to each buyer!
I laughed at this. Not that I pored over my thesaurus for hours to find exactly the right eighty characters to leave for each of my beloved buyers, but the integration of a random feedback generator into my admin panel is pretty funny. I mean, I may as well have fun with it and put in phrases like this. Or make up some good ones:
- May the chicken of despair never darken your doorstep, o wond’rous buyer.
- Bought at last, bought at last, thank God Almighty, you bought at last!!
- A million billion trillion thank-yous would nary be enough, your highness.
Does anyone actually read the positive feedback comments, anyway? If I’m checking out a seller, I’m looking for the negatives, not the positives. I want to see what bad might happen. I pay absolutely no attention to the positive comments.
And as a seller leaving feedback, and not being able to say anything if it’s not nice, is there really anything else that I need to say beyond the customer sending me my money?
Further, does a prospective buyer look at the feedbacks left by sellers to see if they repeat themselves? I don’t, but will potential buyers think less of me if they see that I repeat myself?
Basically, what purpose do sellers’ comments serve anymore? Why shouldn’t I just leave random positive feedback for buyers?
5 Responses to “Random positive feedback for everyone!”
By Jesse on Aug 6, 2008 | Reply
I mostly don’t like the idea of being restricted…for example some people such as myself both buy and sell under the same account. If someone is a ‘bad egg’ that should reflect on their feedback no matter which side of the fence they are on.
By Todd A on Aug 8, 2008 | Reply
This just further waters down a system that had great intentions. There just are too many people with too much time on their hands, to allow an equitable system to stand in the eBay context. As soon as you let people have more than one account, you take away their incentive to act with integrity.
By Budgets are Sexy. on Aug 8, 2008 | Reply
That is too funny! Leaving feedback was always my fav. thing to do - you get to be so creative! i should buy something right now just so i can leave a fun comment…
By Zombie Money on Aug 9, 2008 | Reply
I don’t like their new feedback policy for sellers.
By The Bargain Shopper Lady on Aug 11, 2008 | Reply
I Hate the new system and am considering a boycott. I had a buyer swear they didn’t get an item so I resent another one and had to certify it. When I went to check their feedback, they had it set up where you can’t leave negatives and it’s all set to private. SO HOW CAN I TELL IF THIS NITWIT IS DOING THIS TO EVERYONE? I can’t.
The buyer has all the power now.