by nicksiscoe on 6/9/18, 7:55 PM with 2 comments
by masonic on 6/9/18, 8:53 PM
Ebay's buyer feedback rating is absolutely useless now, ever since it was made impossible to give negative feedback to a buyer for any reason, including outright fraud.
"...Another metric a seller can use for deciding whether or not to respond to an authenticated buyer is the Buyer Dependability Rating, which works similar to Ebay’s system."
With no ability to leave negative ratings, making it as useless as eBay's.
"Buyer asks twelve questions about an item over text before low-balling and offering a third of the asking price. Buyer and seller agree to meet and the buyer just doesn’t show up. Buyer asks seller to meet in a random motel 20 miles outside city limits to complete a transaction…"
But nothing in the Pradl model prevents lowballer/flake "buyers" either.